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North Dakota. She teaches courses in American Fiction and drama. A few of her most well-known published articles are on Tennessee Williams, Williams Inge, and Edith Wharton. The article in speculation about August Wilsons’ Fences was published in an academic journal, African American Review. It was published in the summer 2006 Edition. It can be found in Volume 40, Issue 2, on pages 349-358. This literary criticism goes into depth about how many African American baseball players felt during the…

put upon the women. These specific morals and values were placed upon women overtime by the kinship and communities within the South Asian diaspora. Considering the movie, Mississippi Masala, features a relationship between Demetrius, an African American, and Mina, a Ugandan Indian, it can be used to explore the South Asian diaspora view on interracial relationship. The movie includes a very close South Asian diaspora community. The community looked down upon Mina…

I chose Gold Dust by Banners because I felt that the mood of the poem had a literary crescendo. First it starts off with suggestions and theories but by the last stanza, the song offers hope and resolution. I paired Suggestion with Gold Dust because the song starts off slow and timid but progressively gets louder and heavier on the listener. In addition, the lyrics of Gold Dust are relatively similar to the poem Suggestion. The lyrics from the beginning of the song are suggestive and questioning…

unfairness had been inflicted upon them by the white man. Also while he was incarcerated, several siblings who had adopted the Nation of Islam as their religion visited him. The Nation of Islam is a group of African Americans who embrace the concept of Black Nationalism, which is the idea that blacks should have their own separate state from whites. The group believes that this would better secure the freedom, equality, and human rights of African Americans. These visitors had a profound impact…

White Advantage In the article “White privilege to a broke white person” by Gina Crosley-Corcoran she argues how being white in society did not make her advantaged in society by stating her own personal experiences. White privilege is recognized amongst white individuals and many have been taught not to recognize it for what it is but not every white person gets the same glamorous lifestyle. Being white is just a color that does not define the future for someone. White privilege is viewed in…

to the white upper class citizens in his time. The narrator thinks that all he has to do is to give a speech and get a scholarship, but once he comes to the place he realizes that this is not it. Ellison uses many symbols to show what African Americans have to endure living in a white dominated society. The first trial is with the white stripper. The stripper dances around a group boys while they are half naked. The stripper tries to seduce the boys as they try not to look at her. The white men…

after slavery was illegal, the African-American race was still traumatized by what they were forced to endure. The inhumane experiences that former slaves were forced to live through are personified expertly in the interracial interactions that occur throughout this story. Toni Morrison frequently uses flashbacks to show the reader how these former slaves suffered at the hands of the landed white elite. Not only did slavery negatively affect the African American race physically, it also served…

“what kills poor white women?”, in her essay “What’s Killing Poor White Women?”, Potts uses studies on this topic, her own research, and her own opinion to try to answer this relatively new question. Potts uses a woman’s life that fits the criteria as a poor southern white woman as the basis of her essay. The essay is full of facts that I agree with but there are some points in her writing that I do not agree with, and think are rather stereotypical. In “What’s Killing Poor White Women?”,…

America was run by white males who constantly struggled between their own conscious on issues, and oneself advancement. This often left America struggling to make up in areas that were either equally or even more important than the self-benefits that the white males obtained. The white mans greed for self-advancement in America left minorities including other races and women at a standstill and not even a second thought. I do agree with the statement that the historian proposed after learning…

White privilege is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. This is one of the biggest types of unspoken racism that happens all around us. For the most part the white people benefiting from it are fully oblivious to it and don’t know how it has helped their lives. Most African American and other minorities are sometimes blind to this too.…