In Black is… Black Ain’t‚ the main character use this film to address issues of race‚ sexuality‚ racism‚ and tradition‚ while dealing with his own personal issue of having AIDS. Many prominent figures in the black community in the past and today have been known to address the matters of other no matter what they have going on personally. In the film‚ black tradition and black masculinity are two themes that stood out to me the most. Tradition and masculinity were two things in targeting the blacks
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1800’s women had tough lives and struggled everyday to gain rights. A significant scene in the video was when Kerry Washington (portrayed as Sojourner Truth) says‚ “he says women can’t have as much rights as men‚ ‘cause Christ wasn’t a women! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a women!” This was important because many people think that because a significant figure such as the president‚ or God‚ ect is a man than they are better than women. However‚ it is 2016 and despite what others think
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The grandmother’s hat is the first symbol that serves to portray her as a lady with a misguided moral code. When she prepares for the trip with fellow family members‚ she dresses in the manner the authors suggests she is prepared for an accident and wants the people viewing her dead body to see it as that of a lady. The grandmother is less concerned about the fact that she will already be dead and maybe her grandchildren will also be dead. What is of more concern to her is being viewed as a lady
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Key Word #1: Identity. An overarching concept that framed both readings “Ain’t I a Woman” by Avtar Brah‚ and “Race and Ethnicity” by Stephen Spencer looks at defining identities whether it be of individuals or social and cultural groups. Stephen Spencer discusses how language is a cultural code that can “reflect inherently different social attributes: class‚ gender‚ ethnicity and so on (Spencer‚ 40).” Language is crucially important when looking at many social issues. How we define these issues
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Even though this isn’t actually Billy Withers himself I think the song does him some justice. The song “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Billy and covered by Octavius Womack is easily one of my favorite songs. I listened to the cover version since it was one of the most popular versions of the song on youtube I could find when searching and I liked it a bit more than the version that made me search for it on the radio. What originally got me into blues music was the fact that I had just started driving and
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In Ain’t I A Woman‚ Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack tell Sojourner Truth’s story‚ beginning with her birth and childhood. The book then begins going into detail about her as she grows up‚ her birth name being Isabella to her master‚ and Bella to her parents. After dealing with her mother and fathers’ death‚ being sold from one person to another‚ Isabella is then married to a older slave named Tom‚ whose first wife was taken away from him and sold. It was a forced marriage‚ but they
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The two short paragraphs‚ Ain’t I a Woman and At the Cemetery‚ discuss important issues that are evident even today. Although many people look at discrimination as something that we left behind in the mid-1900’s‚ another event occurs every day that makes it evident this is a reoccurring event. The news is filled with stories about discrimination. In most cases it has to do with a person‚ or a group of people‚ that feel as though they are being treated unfairly. Generally these things are countered
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“If it ain’t broke‚ don’t fix it‚" is a phrase we have all heard at one time or another. Why would you try to fix or change a process if it is not broken? One might feel that there is no reason to change a process or product if it is still working well‚ but others may feel differently and want to improve the way things are being done. After thinking about the phrase “If it ain’t broke‚ don’t fix it‚" I would have to say that I am against the phrase. Organizations should always be thinking about
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The author is trying to tell his audience that they shouldn’t be so scared to change things around because being stuck in the past isn’t going to let their businesses move forward. Rushkoff’s goal with this manifesto is to give his audience ideas. He wants to make people realize that we now live in a digital age. With the
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In Sojourner Truth’s speech‚ “Ain’t I A Woman‚” she focused on how rights were very unjust‚ not only as a woman but also as an African American. In 1851 at the Woman’s Rights Convention located in Akron‚ Ohio‚ men were depreciating woman’s standards. Sojourner did not agree with what the men were saying and she stood up for the rights of all women. At the convention‚ one man had said that women needed to be helped into carriages and lifted over mud puddles. She is taken aback by the man’s comment
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