The Book of Negroes

influence. Bennett’s second book on the subject written in 2009 titled Colonial blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico improves upon its predecessor by doing just…

When people are young, they are taught “to not judge the book by its cover” because it can be misleading to what the book context is going to be about. Unfortunately for Armand, “the cover” was Desiree’s skin color. Armand Aubigny, a character in the short story “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, confronts an immense decision between love and race. He becomes furious when he notices his son’s skin color was not white and does not want to be in a relationship with his wife, Desiree. Armand is…

Premiering in 1997, the musical Ragtime, written by the trio of Terrence McNally (Book/Script), Stephen Flaherty (Music), and Lynn Ahrens (Lyrics) was something along the lines of a smash hit. Featuring a star studded cast, with such luminaries as Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, and Audra McDonald, the musical won four Tony Awards and was nominated for 14, including Best Musical. The musical is based on E.L. Doctorow’s 1974 novel Ragtime, a work of historical fiction that has various…

hear about other slaves succeeded in escaping because of this. "A crewman aboard a New England ship announced off the African Coast reported: 'The Negroes got to the powder and Arms at about 3 in the morning, rose upon the whites, and after wounding all of them...ran the vessel ashore...and made the escape" (Katz 9). This is an example of how…

corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, that is set in the 1930’s during the great depression, it teaches many lessons throughout the book. One of the most memorable, is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. With this in mind, many lessons are portrayed throughout the course of this novel. Throughout, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird multiple life lessons are taught, those that…

politicians and businessmen extended rail lines into the smallest of southern hamlets in the years after Reconstruction, they had wanted simply to connect the region 's fields and forests to the North 's great factories. But the process also provided Negroes with a thousand escape routes. It was never easy to leave, to slip free of piles of debts, to shutter homes and abandon lands, to say good-bye to family and friends. But a hundred thousand colored people did just that…” Years prior to the…

The bildungsroman novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was once voted to be the most inspirational book in history, over ruling even the Bible. Though there are some hard topics to face in reading this novel, they are present as cautionary examples for readers to avoid making the same mistakes. Lee constructs the society of Maycomb as a discriminatory environment that places the black community in a subservient position to the whites, by exploring the life of a young girl. By following…

philosophy by the way she sticks up for the maid against Hilly. Hilly finds out that Skeeter and some of the maids wrote a book revealing all of the horrible discriminating acts against them. She finds out that they put the part where she ate Minny 's feces and she flips out and calls Minnie Jackson a “Nigra” (Taylor). Skeeter is mad at Hillie, so she publishes it in the book to get back at her for being such a mean and cruel person. Skeeter has obviously shown…

Best-selling novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) has a deep focus on prejudice in southern America during the 1930 's. Author Harper Lee uses a wide range of characters and experiences through the eyes of young Jean Louise Finch to communicate issues present with prejudice and their long term effects throughout the story. Known as an unfair judgement or action towards someone without solid evidence, the topic of prejudice is supported by Atticus 's famous quote within the novel "You never really…

Last week during class, W.E.B. Du Bois and his theory about the talented tenth surfaced in class discussion. There seemed to be a Universal agreement that his talented tenth concept is problematic. Outside of our classroom there has been a lot of debate regarding Du Bois’s theory, and its application to the Africana community. There are some people who believe that Du Bois created the talented tenth theory, however it was northern liberals who originated the term. Dr. Henry Lyman Morehouse, was…