Tuskegee Airmen

In ‘Prize Stock’ (1957), Oe Kenzaburo explores a complex set of power relations within human interactions and the traumatic impact of war on human lives. With the use of a black character, Oe creates an effect of de-familiarization to bring attention to the interactions within the community, forcing readers to re-examine what is seemingly ‘normal’. By challenging the perceived normality within human interactions, this text also highlights the fluidity and complexity of power relations,…

On March 2, 1917, President Wilson issued a declaration of war against Germany, officially entering World War I that he pledged to keep the country out of. To achieve maximum strength to fight against the Germans, The U.S mobilized the whole nation for war with a draft that including Americans of all races. Many blacks contested World War I, arguing why fight for democracy in Europe while African Americans remain second class citizens in the United States. Others believed that if blacks served…

victory in war and victory at home. The campaign stood for freedom within the entire African American society. During the campaign, the Americans were winning the war at that point, thanks to many of their talented generals and pilots such as the Tuskegee Airmen. Back at the home front, the victory stood for how the people overcame all of the discrimination and prejudicism. The Double V campaign all started with the Pittsburgh Courier, an African American-circulated newspaper in 1941, when James…

African Americans and their influential leaders fought in many ways against racism, segregation, and discrimination following the Civil War until present time. African Americans’ struggle to achieve racial equality and full citizenship in the United States forced them to find ways to enhance their quality of life and establish strong political foundations capable of achieving meaningful social, cultural and economic changes. Their fight for equality led them to create durable movements that…

Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines…