African Americans today constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population‚ and one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime (“Criminal”‚ par.4).Since African Americans make up 13.3% of the American population‚ this number is incredibly high(Williams‚ par.1). These staggering numbers reveal how skewed and unequal the current justice system is. People deserves equal and consistent judgment in the court of law. African Americans
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This journal entry is about Alice Walker and her fictional story called The Welcome Table found in the book Shadow & Light by Darryl Tippens‚ Jeanne Murray Walker and Stephen Weathers. In this paper‚ I will give a brief summary of the story. What it meant to me? What I learned from the story? I will also write about who Alice Walker is‚ when‚ why‚ and where she wrote The Welcome Table. Who is Alice Walker? “Alice Walker describes herself as an African American ‘womanist’ writer” (Walker‚ 2013‚ p
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In the academic article “Selling Hot Pussy‚” Bell Hooks explains the bewilderment and the representation of the black female body in society. Bell Hooks really emphasizes that in popular culture‚ the exploited body has many sexual throwback references to slavery. Bell Hooks contrast the white female body and how it is not as sexualized as the black female body. She details how much the black female body is used in the media to sell things. Bell Hooks especially points out how the black female musicians
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The film The "Mammy" Stereotype of Black Women in Ethnic Notions shows an important era for Black people in television. The film show how black people were first seen in television‚ cartoons depicting how black people look: with the big lips‚ big buttocks and very dark skin. This image of black people was damaging as it was showing that black people had dark skin and big lips and buttocks. The cartoons in my opinion and the first imagery they showed of black people was insulting‚ however on the other
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In the dictionary‚ the word “ugly” is defined as someone or something that is unpleasant and repulsive. For a black girl‚ the connotation of the word transforms from unpleasant to unworthy; repulsive thus becomes invisible. “Ugly” was initially written as a way for me to be in conversation with the Webster Dictionary word. However‚ over some months the piece began to be a conversation I was having with myself‚ other poets‚ and black girls in general. After ten months of working on this collection
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African Americans will continue to dominate in professional sport and triumph. The vast majority of players playing in the NFL are African American. “The first graph chart was created by Mona Chalabi. She evaluated the amount of African American’s that are playing in the NFL which makes up 66%.” At a young age most African American kids tend to get involved into football by playing in little leagues. As the year’s pass they continue to play football but now competitively. They then begin to play
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The documentary‚ ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America‚ focused on the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic amongst the black community in the United States. Historically‚ AIDS was first stereotyped as a disease of gay white men. Many blacks ignored it and felt they were omitted to contracting the virus based off what was portrayed in the press as a white epidemic. In the late 80s and early 90s‚ the widespread of poverty in black communities exacerbated everything about the AIDS crisis. Approximately‚ 40 percent
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The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is a compilation of essays based on African American culture. Du Bois goes into depth into African American history‚ utilizing two terms pertaining into looking deeper into African American identity – “double consciousness” and the “veil”. “Double consciousness" is the belief that African-Americans in the United States exist with two opposing identities that cannot be entirely combined. Most essential to the African
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D.W.Griffith is known as the creator of Hollywood reaching success with his film “The Birth of a Nation”. He tried to this controversial picture second filmed called “Intolerance”. This word intolerance is defined as unwillingness to accept views‚ beliefs‚ or behavior that differ from one’s own. This idea was portrayed throughout the between social class‚ generations‚ genders‚ and religious groups. Griffith showed four different era and somehow the people found a way to intolerant of another person/or
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Imagine you were put in a tough position‚ where everybody was cheating on a math test‚ and you are the one person who knows it is the right thing not to cheat on the test. Would you give in and cheat just because the other people are cheating? Or would you ignore them and take the test fairly because you know it’s the right thing to do? Although this book’s issues go well beyond simply cheating on a math test. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee shows us how the characters are fighting
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