Genres:Neo Noir Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd): "You oughta have more sense than to take chances with strangers like this." Joyce Harwood (Veronica Lake): "It’s funny‚ but practically all the people I know were strangers when I met them." This quote comes from “The Blue Dahlia” 1946 film directed by George Marshall. This film was created during the popular film noir era in 1940’s‚ and is referenced in “The Black Dahlia” a film directed by Brian Da Palma which is his homage to the film noir era.
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community and individuals in power. Unfortunately‚ Ruby Ibarra encounters the “authenticity paradigm” as a non-Black person of color within the hip-hop realm. Asian American rappers are deemed racially inauthentic due to the uncontested normative blackness of hip-hop culture (Wang 36). Race becomes a marketing liability for Asian Americans because the stereotypes of the effeminate‚ passive‚ and asexual Asian American are the antithesis to the masculine‚ aggressive‚ and hypersexual African American
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This semester‚ the readings were a bit challenging‚ but overall I enjoyed the readings. It has always been very difficult for me to understand Donna Haraway‚ but by discussing her in class and giving examples‚ I was able to have a better understanding of her topics. Throughout her work Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience‚ Haraway explains that cyborgs are constructed as the postmodern icon in today’s society‚ because of science. Haraway explains
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In reading this essay‚ we found that we agreed with the argument that there is somewhat of a ‘pecking order’ of oppression that results from the intersection of race and gender. We disagreed with‚ however‚ the idea that Sula’s version of agency is the only version or ‘correct’ version‚ and that Nel and Helene somehow betray their race by not having the same type of agency. We believed that the intersection of race and gender creates a different type of discrimination: a white woman and a black woman
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sympathy‚ even. Yet‚ still‚ in recounting these days of hardship‚ he still finds the nostalgia of being with his dog and among nature’s elements. : “Needful as forgiveness. My bird dog Spot. Eyed blue jays & thrashers. The mud frogs in rich blackness‚ hid from daylight.” (MLM‚ Komunyakaa‚ “Blackberries” PPG 147-148) . To balance the conflict with a longing to be in simpler times‚ with a
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speaker realizes that life is running out and each day is passing by. The reference of darkness and night in positive terms can actually be considered a subtle celebration of African Americans. In all of Hughes’ poems he creates pictures of pride in blackness. The main theme of this pofem
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me because they don’t know how to hide it. I ain’t dumb‚ I can see the way his eyes widen with fear and their hands clench the table like I am going to snatch them away. It doesn’t hurt me to be feared because I am used to nothing but that. The blackness of my skin don’t bother me‚ it’s the same skin of my mother and father. My proportions don’t bother me either‚ that’s the way I was built‚ and I’ve been through too much to be concerned about that. But the look in the white man’s eye when he sees
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In Rebecca Tuvel’s article‚ "In Defense of Transracialism"‚ Tuvel argues that the frequent arguments opposing transracialism fail‚ and society should accept that there is no reasonable reason to refuse transracialism. The purpose of my paper is not to agree or disagree with Tuvel’s argument‚ but rather‚ to argue that her defense fails to the objection that the thought of classifying yourself as a member of another race disrespects the real members of that particular race. Tuvel argues that because
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work at menial jobs for a while‚ but in 1926 he published his first volume of poems‚ The Weary blues. Soon after‚ He enrolled at Lincoln University‚ a predominantly black-school in Pennsylvania. It showed him committed to Racial themes pride in blackness and in his African
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Close to the Edge: The Representational Tactics of Eminem a comprehensive essay written by Marcia Alesan Dawkins‚ provides a concrete‚ insightful examination of the strategy and tactics used by a Caucasian artist to integrate himself into the predominantly African-American and Latino dominated sub culture of hip-hop. The purpose of this document is to illuminate the methods utilized by what Dawkins calls the Other to seamlessly sneak into a racially charged social group and gain acceptance amongst
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