W. E. B. Du Bois

Following the Gilded Age, women and African Americans faced challenges economically and politically to gain equal benefits as most white men. They gradually started earning different rights of equality because of reformers and major impactful events like the World Wars. The characters of Thomas Bell’s “Out of This Furnace” faced similar transformations as each generation overcame some segregation challenges. To begin, women during this time faced challenges concerning equality. Amid the…

Dr. Carter G. Woodson was the smartest man in black history. I believe because he had very strong and intellectual views on one of the most important issues our world is still facing today. Part of Dr. Woodson thesis explains that we as African American people are so out of touch with the achievements made by our ancestors due to the fact that the curriculum taught in school systems fails to include it. Woodson 's thesis revolved around the fact that in schools we are only taught only about our…

“Diversity itself isn’t enough.” What does this mean? What needs to change? Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical theologian, sheds some light on the racial injustice in our country by answering these very questions. Through Wallis’ convocation, The Bridge To A New America, he expresses how America’s issue with race is correlated with Christians’ obligation to acknowledge it and take action. In his speech, Jim Wallis first conveys the inequitable truth of discrimination between African Americans…

In the book “Where Death and Glory Meet” by Russell Duncan the story of the young Colonel Robert Gould Shaw is being told. This is an interesting book about Shaw’s personal life and how he grew up in a great economic status, where he had the opportunity to travel to many different countries in the European continent. It also talks about how Shaw became the Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, which is the first to be only for African American soldiers. The author of this book focuses on…

Giovanni’s Room: Exposing Racism and Homophobia. James Baldwin was an African American author; he wrote literature in the form of novels, short stories, essays, and literary criticism. Baldwin was born in 1924, in New York City, and grew up in Harlem, during the Harlem Renaissance. Much of the literary influences from that decade were sparks of inspiration for the author. While growing up, the young author was aware of the importance of education; he knew it was a path to freedom, leaving behind…

early African American literary people that explains a inner "twoness" and never having an individual unified identity because of this. It is thought to be expressed because of the oppression and disvaluement of blacks in a white dominated society. Du Bois explains that because of this, it is hard for blacks to be able to relate to having a black identity and having a American identity. The question becomes this: how is it expressed throughout African American literature?…

Judgement Day Visual Analysis Annually, people become educated about the final days on earth and what will take place. On the final days, God will destroy the earth, create a paradise for those who are faithful to him and punish those who were unfaithful or unenlightened of his will. The judgement will include adults, teenagers, toddlers and infants. Unfortunately, there are many people that are unaware of their religious status within themselves and with God. Our society is covered with…

In Langston Hughes “I, Too Sing America”, it is obvious that Hughes is expressing himself over the inequality of America from the point of view of an African American man. It is interesting, almost amazing the way he explains himself in this poem because he does it in an appreciative manner that one reading the poem would never see the anger behind it all. Some of the ways he shows this is through showing his who he really is proving his race and value, through his ambition and through his…

Dead Men’s Path is written by (Achebe)and is considered a modernization of the African tribal life. The story is about a man named Michael Obi who is a young, energetic man. Obi is the young new headmaster at the college, a traditional college. Obi has new ideas he thinks will bring the school into a modern era. He soon finds that his ideas don’t achieve the results that he imagined. Obi, bright and enthusiastic as ever who is excited to find out what he can do for the school that has been in…

All throughout Langston Hughes writing he works to make the statement that no matter what, he will never conform to white ideals. In “The Negro Artists and the Racial Mountains” he writes,” I am a Negro – and beautiful!” He even often calls out black writers for trying to conform and blend in with white culture, and he deliberately does not write in “proper” English like white people do because he wants to express his culture and where he comes from. Langston writes,” It is the duty of the…