Category: African American

With the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments established in America, African American rights became much, and they had many more freedoms. Even with these things in place the confidence, passion, and acceptance of African Americans still continued to lack. On the break of change in the nineteen twenties, it was time to celebrate the victory…

Table of contents Introduction The Birth and Aims of the Harlem Renaissance The Role of Prominent Figures Attraction and Stereotypes Conclusion Introduction In the early 1920s, the United States was a dynamic tapestry of diverse cultures, shaped by the interactions of people from various ethnic backgrounds who had converged on American soil over the preceding…

“Poem About My Rights” is a passionate, emotional, and personal poem. Violence toward and oppression of individual African Americans and countries in southern Africa are the overriding themes of “Poem About My Rights.” The poem vulgarly refers to sexual violence experienced by woman and how they are victimized, harassed and abused by men who are…

I was amazed by the book Twelve Years A Slave which the author, Solomon Northup depicts the life of an African American from the North, Saratoga Springs in New York is kidnapped in Washington DC and live a suffering and slavery life in Louisiana until Mr. Bass saved him through his friends. Interestingly, the book…

The Roaring 20’s is trademarked for its cultural advancement and flashy lifestyle; however, frequently overlooked are the dark spots of this time period. Dictionary.com defines as, “the act of adopting elements of an outside, often minority, culture without understanding or respecting the original culture and context”. The problem with cultural appropriation is that the offending…

Throughout , people of color have been targeted, especially in the criminal justice system. After the 13th amendment was passed, Southern whites utilized its loophole to imprison black people for petty crimes, so they could use them as free labor. Later, Jim Crow laws discriminated against black people. Although black people are now officially equal…

Humans have the trend to incline to positivity over negativity; this is a trait used by humans. The human prejudice for positivity influences different types of subjects, consisting of how literary critics and historians depict the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance, in The Norton Introduction to Literature by professors Mays and Booth, is described as…

Today we are all speaking on someone who helped make change and broke barriers that people thought would never be broken. In the 1940’s those of color were treated very unfairly, and were seen as lesser people. At this time there was an unspoken social code of racial segregation or discrimination in sports, education, and…

African American women, in the course of seeking executive positions in organizations dominated by whites, often face restrictions. They always face discrimination based on their racial and gender statuses. Cain (2015), states in her research that women made up only 16% of the executive positions in corporate organizations in the United States in 2014. In…

The United States of America is a country that was founded on racism. It is a country founded on the brutal, harmful work of , who were stripped from their homes to help build this nation. African Americans have endured two centuries of slavery, upon about a century of systemic racism that still lingers in…