White Nile

like that?” (Hansberry 527). Beneatha is expected to fall in place with how the white american women of her time live. Although she is already an oddity because of her skin color and gender, Beneatha is even more of an outcast because she isn't following the example of the dominant race. She yearns to find an identity among Native Africans like her good friend Asagai, but is restricted due to the boundaries that white women have put up for African women. After Asagi gives Beneatha the clothing…

Toomer intends to use Fern’s body as a form of racial sacrifice for the benefit of society. Fern’s complex identity embodies the sorrows of African Americans and Jews who are overwhelmed by the intense oppression caused by white supremacy. Toomer centralizes his focus on Fern’s peculiar eyes and the atrocities which she has witnessed. Her eyes are perceived as “strange” and “that they sought nothing” (Toomer 18). With the racial hybridity of African American and Jewish heritage, Fern’s strange…

Johnson. To understand the centrality of hair to African people one must do so through the lens of an African worldview and cosmology, only then will the full scope of its importance be thoroughly understood. Throughout the ages,from the Ancient Nile Valley civilizations to the movement West and the establishment of Western African empires, hair has maintained a spiritual, social, cultural and aesthetic significance in the lives of African people. With this source meaning of black women…

collection, and as I look at this picture, I see two men in agony. Suffering or even stuck in life they do not want. The color palette used: blue, white and brownish-yellowish may signify the mood of the painting, but also, explicitly, defines the two men as the focal area of the painting. The brownish-yellowish rocks I believe also signifies a hard life, but the white clouds in the blue sky, defines even though the two men are suffering or in agony, their suffering…

relations of representation in regards to survival of black people”(English .29). This would include the history of resistance that gets erased through a white-supremacist narrative. This form of history justifies slavery by imposing the economic progress the West has gained from slavery, as well as the passiveness within society that…

Influenced by the rise of romantic nationalism, the Grimm brothers published a collection of German fairy tales in the 1812 as an effort to preserve German folk tradition. Hidden within the text of each fairy tales were attitudes toward society. This included religion, which was a fundamental aspect of German culture. The Catholic Church gained power through their large membership throughout Germany and Europe. It became so powerful that the Catholic clergy were wealthy and corrupt. Eventually,…

emotional appeal. As analysts, it is imperative that we delve into the specifics to understand the true meaning of the advertisement. When glancing at this advertisement, it is blatant that this merchandise is being marketed to a notably, wealthy white women. Earlier it was mentioned that Parker was the main focus of the advertisement. The reason is simply because Suzy Parker is elegant and would perfectly represent the classic brand of…

implemented more than a century ago. Unless the film requires casting POC, the first person Hollywood seems to cast is 99% of the time white. In the last decade thousands of films have chosen not to cast actors of colour. Some films that did this include Aloha, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Prince of Persia, and Argo (Nahaar). A film that received tremendous backlash for casting white actors as the heroes and a South Asian actor as the villain is the film The Last Airbender, directed by M Night…

they would to a more mainstream magazine. In regards to the other magazines and past magazines I have read I feel that people of color are held to a white standard of beauty. In the past I have read a magazine in which they had whitewashed the darker skinned individuals to look whiter, this is a prime example of people of color being held to a white standard of beauty. This is extremely detrimental to people of color for it makes them believe that there is something wrong with the color of their…

For example, how Désirée and Armand did not know their real identity caused them to loose the person they loved. Armand blame Désirée for not being white, but truly he did not know her real identity. Désirée suicide herself and the baby because she thought it was her fault that she had black as her identity. After all Armand did not see her the same for having black as her identity. But Armand was the…