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Cruse opens the text with then contemporarily profound ideals concerning the ‘new’ Negro intellectual class that emerged out of the late 1950s and 1960s. In his discussion around the Negro spokesperson, I found myself considering the idea of Black representationalism—the avant-garde context of Cruse’s ‘spokesperson.’ His depiction of true America were bone-chilling as he analyzes the country in its totality in efforts to capitalize on the Negro’s function within in. Cruse speaks very highly of Harlem. At times, his thoughts seems to be guided through a bias, but as he spoke more of the section within the Manhattan borough, I conjured up the image of the utopia described. Cruse provides the vision for group Black economics, the vision of unity. Emerging in between the high-rises and co-ops of Harlem is a world separate from that of America. I was able to dissolve the thoughts of biases from Cruse as I noted several cases in which he, too, spoke of Harlem’s downfalls. His personal anecdotes provides the reader with full truths that employ historical contexts throughout the novel. Cruse uses his narrative of the city’s highs and lows to articulate the reality of double consciousness and introduces what…
In order to further understand the relationship between temperature, radiation, and energy output we conducted a black body experiment in order to experimentally confirm the Stefan-Boltzmann constant.…
Control of reproductive decisions of black women is a highly prevalent a form of racial oppression in America. Due to this form of control, the meaning of reproductive liberty in America has been significantly altered. These issues are addressed in Dorothy Roberts’ Killing the Black Body. The novel demonstrates the way in which black women were consistently devalued as a tool for reproductive means, which in itself was a form of racial oppression. The novel also provides the reader with insight as to how experiences of black women since times of slavery have drastically changed the present day connotation of reproductive freedom.…
An eight-year-old African American boy sat on the floor of his church. His mother and father were talking quietly in the corner. He only heard pieces of the conversation. Things like “abolitionist” and “segregation” were repeated often. Many questions ran through his head. Questions like ‘Why do the whites have separate churches?’ And ‘Why is my dad not allowed to practice medicine?’ There were 221,000 free blacks in the sixteen Northern states in 1860. That is 4.9% of the African American population. They were called “free”, but did they really have liberty? Free people act as they wish and are unimpeded by others telling them what to do. Based on the political, social and economic rights of blacks in the North, we can conclude that they were not very free in comparison to the whites around them.…
Men In Black II by Robert Gordon explores the idea that the government is a shady and dim group. In Gordon’s story, aliens are brought into Earth from a spacecraft, and soon face the challenges of adapting to society. Serleena, a Kylothian queen discovers an occupation to take advantage of her abilities. Her shape shifting power gives her the ability to improve and transform herself to the highest possible degree of beauty to become a supermodel and seduce men. Other aliens find different occupations and lifestyles such as Scrad & Charlie, who becomes a villain, and an alien name Jack Jeebs who becomes a pawn shop owner. Humans throughout the novel fail to acknowledge their existence, and for the ones who witnessed and believe they exist are brought to an interview with the Men In Black and are soon given a flash by a neuralyzer. The Men in Black commonly use it to erase any traces of memory from the encounter with the alien. Any human that could benefit the Men In Black however, don’t face subject to become neuralyzed and are brought into the Men In Black facility. In the final chapters of the story the Men in Black push to great lengths to erase the memory of the people of New York City who have faced the catastrophic events with the aliens, they build a giant neutralizer into the Statue of Liberty and set it off. The lives that the aliens possess and the actions Men in Black take expresses postmodernism. The idea that the world we live in now is corrupt and any knowledge of the unknown is to be quarantined or…
In Black Like Me, written by John Howard Griffin, Mr. Griffin, a white novelist, experiences a treacherous journey throughout the Deep South disguised as an African American. He encounters racism, discrimination, and hate from various whites, but receives affection and hospitality from other African Americans. In this essay, I am going to explain Mr. Griffin's findings in his bold exploration in the Deep South during the 1959's.…
Before reading What America Would Be Like Without Blacks, by Ralph Ellison, I asked myself how would the author explain the title and what point would he argue from. He starts with questioning the “concept of race” and speak on the fantasies of a “blackless America.” Ellison goes on to talk about the history of the time period where blacks were almost removed. My favorite example of this removal was the quote from President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, “Your race suffers greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason why we should be separated.”…
This paper presents the life experience of two African-Americans as slaves during the nineteenth century. Henry Bibb was the author of his own narrative, which he published in 1849 with the assistance of Lucius Matlack. The second source was the narrative of W. L. Bost, a slave from North Carolina. He was interviewed as many other enslaved African-Americans by the members of the Federal Writer’s Project around the 1930s. The purpose of these narratives was to describe to the public what it meant to be slave at that period of time. Both authors recalled the difficult and cruel conditions they faced during their journey as slaves. First, they were sold as merchandises on the market. Bost depicted that both men and women were chained and inappropriately…
There are more African Americans under correctional control today, in prison or jail, on probation or parole then where enslaved in 1850s. Civil Rights advocate and writer of The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander acknowledges in her book that the African American community is suffering more than the non-colored people when it comes to the U.S Justice system. Alexander introduces the book with a story about a man names Jarvious Cotton. Cotton was not allowed to vote just like his grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather because of the history behind their color. Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather beaten to death…
Futterman, Chaclyn Hunt, and Jamie Kalven offer a unique perspective to the issue of mass incarceration and highlight how police brutality have motivated more youth to join movements like Black Lives Matter. The article focuses on how injustices black people in the United States relating to criminal justice have influenced “young people who insist on remaining visible, on being heard, and on placing issues of police accountability in the larger context of the structural inequalities and exclusion.” This rise in activism within the youth is a result of how the black community is viewed within the criminal justice system. Throughout the article, the authors…
In the beginning Locke tells us about “the tide of Negro migration”. During this time in a movement known as the Great Migration, thousand of African Americans also known as Negros left their homes in the South and moved North toward the beach line of big cities in search of employment and a new beginning. They left the South because of racial violence such as the Ku Klux Klan and economic discrimination not able to obtain work. Their migration was an expression of their changing attitudes toward themselves as Locke said best From The New Negro, and has been described as "something like a spiritual emancipation." Many African Americans moved to Harlem, a neighborhood located in Manhattan. Back in the day Harlem became the world’s largest black community; also home to a diverse mix of cultures. Having extraordinary outbreak of inspired movement revealed their unique culture and encouraged them to discover their heritage; and becoming "the New Negro,” Also known as “New Negro Movement,” it was later named the Harlem Renaissance.…
Borders, communities, and identities were the focal points of the last unit in Historical Theories and Methods. These three ideas can sometimes fuse with each other creating a complex discussion of what they mean. One topic that interests me that relates with these ideas is a study of the origins of the following words, Hispanic, Latina/o, and Chicana/o. These words mean a lot to a complex community that exists along the United States and Mexican border. These words usually can lead to an identity predicament amongst people in these communities. The three theories and methods I believe that can be useful when approaching this topic are subaltern studies, race or identity theory, and oral histories. These three theories and methodology…
Black on black violence has been on the rise in the recent years. 1 in 146 black males are at risk of violent death, whereas the ratio for white men is 1 in 189. What do we mean by “Black on Black crime?” It may be described as anytime a Black person inflicts violent harm on another Black person. The effects of this violence in the Black community are tremendous. Violence is very much part of what it means to be Black in America. Another issue in America is putting the wrong people on death row. Most of the time it is just to a guilty verdict so the prosecutor’s family can move on. This is exactly what happened in the case of Walter McMillian who was accused and found guilty of murdering a Ronda Morrison by gunshot. In this passage I will explain some of the black on black violence seen in America, talk about some of the excerpts from Les Payne and Glenn Loury’s argument, and explain McMillians trial…
In the documentary “I am not Your Negro” directed by Raoul Peck, the most memorable moment for me is the section focuses on integration at American public school. It is difficult for me to believe that many people march on the street only because an African American girl is going to school with the white kids, and I feel really angry and shocked when people are saying things like “when a negro child walk into the school, all decent parents should take their white children out of the broken school”, or “God can forgive adultery, but he is angry about integration ”. Even though those comments and events can have a huge impact on social discrimination and hurt to African American, they are real things that happened in the American history, and…
The song Welcome to the Black Parade's overall theme is about love ones dying and…