Underground culture

world, quickly spreading to all areas of the world. Reggaetón originated from the underground scene of Puerto Rico’s urban life, combining Puerto Rican hip hop with Jamaican dancehall. In Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s, book Remixing Reggaetón Rivera-Rideau discusses the cultural politics of race in Puerto Rico, focusing on Reggaetón as a critique of Puerto Rico’s “racial democracy.” At the start of this book, Rivera-Rideau focuses on Puerto Rico’s underground music scene as a culmination of the African Diaspora and a political statement of the racial conditions Puerto Rico faced at the time. During a time when some Latin Americans viewed Spain as the “mother land,” Puerto Rico’s underground music…

Underground economy, also known as the Black market is when sellers and buyers trade their goods and services secretly to evade the price controls and tax rate set by the Prime Minister. The Black market is the second largest market in the world and these trades happens both in developed and developing countries. All kinds of goods and services are available in the Black market, but the goods that were most commonly traded are things that are available in the official market but at a lower cost…

Imagine never seeing the sun, sky, or nature. In the novel Tunnels by co-authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, a boy named Will Burrows stumbles upon an underground Victorian era city, named the Colony. Will finds the underground city while looking for his father who recently went missing. After being captured by the civilians of the underground city (also known as colonists), he discovers that his dad, also known as Mr. Burrows was captured by the colonists and was banished deeper into…

Dutch-American neighborhood house that has been sustained since 1720 (Croghan, 2015). This house is interconnected with slavery that occurred within people of African decent along with serving as a safe house along the Underground Railroad. The Hendrick I. Lott House is located at 1940 East 36th Street in Brooklyn, New York. The Lott House rests in the neighborhood known as, Marine Park. The house was originally purchased by Johannes Lott. Johannes Lott was a farmer and a community leader. The…

they were not superior to the white man and that they had no chance of freedom. Many times when Harriet would attempt to free a slave they would get nervous and have a change of heart in which she would say “You’ll be free or die a slave!”(Americaslibrary.com) she was able to see what they were not and understood that if they went back then they would be tortured and bribed until they told her assailants where she was and discloses the route to the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman’s roll in…

the Middle States, and by the federal government" (Khanal 82). Even with the Emancipation some forty years ago, these characters still endure racial oppression designed to deprive them of culture and publically assigned values, such as money and belongings. One such character that the readers meet early on in the playwright is Citizen Barlow, described by Wilson as "a young man from Alabama who is in spiritual turmoil. Late twenties/early thirties" (Gem of the Ocean 5). This…

From the information that I had gathered, Stowe had become an abolitionist during the 1830s (“The Abolitionists,”). This was around the time of the Underground Railroad, so when slavery was prohibited north of the Ohio River, slaves would make their way through the Underground Railroad to freedom. Stowe had become friends with several of the slaves; getting stories and first-person views from the fugitive slaves, which formed her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a work of fiction…

creation of a depraved publication that defied a vast majority of points stated in the Comic Code. I began with outlining the background of repression and censorship as it contributes towards explaining the innate nature of the extremity of Crumb’s work through almost conventional rebellion. This rebellion extended to other writers, poets, artists, performers and in turn, hippies living, working and creating in the US underground. Placing Crumb within this context is equally as important as…

willingness to help runaway slaves because of their fear of heavy consequences if they were caught in the act. In Chapter 21 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the AP themes of Culture and Society and American and National Identity are demonstrated through Mrs. Shelby’s efforts to be a voice of reason with her husband. Her moral obligation to withhold her husband’s promise to Tom and confronting her husband with means of keeping it shows a more outgoing woman figure than…

This woman told her about the Underground Railroad and influenced her to leave Maryland. Harriet felt that running away was her only choice because her husband stole her money and her master would not let her buy her freedom. She had no reasons to stay there. Thus, she started her journey north. Slaves had to go north if they wanted to escape. In the north, there were free states in which slavery was not allowed. In the beginning of her journey, a kind gentleman helped Harriet across a river by…