The American Spectator

This sport captures the attention of the young and the old, and is played by the same. This game dominates the weeknight and weekend television during its season. So what is this game? Football, America’s favorite pastime. But what many beloved spectators didn’t know about the game, the movie Concussion brought to the silver screen in 2015. The movie Concussion, takes place in modern day time in Pittsburg, PA. Little did we know that an estimated 300,000 sport-related traumatic brain injuries,…

Blacks and whites were separated but were said to be equal. Despite this ‘equality’ many African American citizens tried to pass the colour line to improve their quality of life. In a time when this passing was so common, chauvinists often looked for other means to determine race. Some look for physical indications, but others, like Hugh Wentworth, just…

The Afro American Newspaper framed three ladies standing with nooses around their neck in protest against lynching in Georgia on January 1st, 1946. Lynching refers to death by hanging by the white mob. I chose women in protest as opposed to a violent, voyeuristic lynch mob scene because it demonstrates taking an individual stance against racial segregation and atavism. The women depicted in the picture stand outside a forest. Note the trees are blurred as the camera lens primarily focuses on the…

focused on questioning the aspects that cause him and his white classmates to differ. Nonetheless, Hughes and Hurston both use a common theme of racial identity as well as symbolism and the use of metaphor, to explain the struggle of being African-American in the 20th century. In Hughes’ poem “Theme for…

When I picture the Civil War, I picture people fighting in a field and Abraham Lincoln delivering triumphant speeches of freedom and emancipation. Not often do I think about the desperate human struggle for survival in POW camps, the brutal journey many took to escape slavery, or the hundreds of dead bodies that lay mutilated after brutal battles. In the graphic history Battle Lines, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, such realities and human experiences are visually portrayed. In order to…

kneaded the Euro American beauty ideal into the society by various mediums like magazines and Hollywood figures, causing an imbalance in beauty standards among…

In Janes Gaines’s, White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory, Gaines wanted to show how a theory of the text and its spectator, based on the psychoanalytic concept of sexual difference, is unequipped to deal with a film which is about racial difference and sexuality. “The Diana Ross star vehicle Mahogany (directed by Berry Gordy, 1975) immediately suggests a psychoanalytic approach because the narrative is organized around the connections between voyeurism…

Released in 2009, The Blind Side is an American biographical sports drama film. It intricately describes the struggle of a black man who strives to become part of the white society. The main character Michael Oher shows the audience how an African American experiences discrimination and mistreatment from his white community (Hancock). Without doubt, this is a common trend in the real American society. Therefore, the main issue explored in the movie is racism and racial discrimination against the…

since his father died and he was compelled to become the man of the house. ¨Hansberry writes to persuade a white audience to accept racial integration.The strategy Hansberry uses to effect her intention is exceptionally accessible to both reader and spectators.¨ (Keyssar). The use of a white audience makes this point that Hansberry is trying to make more effective because it helps the reader to understand a point of view from both…

basketball to American football fans all over the world are always raving to see two teams engage in the highest levels of competition. Sporting events have become commonplace in the entertainment landscape of today, yet when looking closely at the events themselves they become much more sinister. Sports in fact can bring out the worst and most violent tendencies that mankind has to offer, and this applies to both the players and the spectators. On any given weekend in the fall millions of…