What is racism? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the definition of racism is any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldviewāthe ideology that humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called āracesā; that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality. Racism is not new to any culture. It...
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āA Raisin in the Sunā was brought to the public on March 11,1959 where it resembled the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance had many characteristics that tied into black history. It was a racial pride that developed the idea of black identity through the production of literature, art, and music that could challenge the racism presented to promote progressive politics....
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āA Raisin in The Sunā, carries on the tradition of the Harlem Renaissance by the 4 characters and extends beyond that tradition by using aspects. Most of the characters are shown through actions of the main characters or it could be their use of their words. It helps us realise the certain aspects that will help us understand the events...
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At the dawn of the 1920s, the United States of America was a melting pot of cultures. Many people with different cultural backgrounds interacted with each other in America over the previous century, creating the many-layered culture that defined the U.S. at the time. No place provided a better example of this than the shining city of Manhattan, home to...
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Durham's work on Destination Freedom based on the verifiable methodology of Herbert Aptheker's momentous book, American Negro Slave Revolts, first distributed in 1943, which featured the steady nearness of obstruction among slaves in the US. Aptheker was remarkably a customary supporter of the arrangement. The arrangement was subsidized for the most part by WMAQ, a NBC partner (and amusingly a...
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The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance refers to a time in American history during which the New York City neighborhood of Harlem became a focal point of African American culture. The period, which lasted from the 1910s to the mid-1930s, resulted in a huge surge of creativity among African Americans, which was expressed in many art forms, including literature, music,...
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The time period in US American History known as āThe Roaring 20ās and eventually the The Great Depression refers to a decade, of economic prosperity in major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Berlin, and Paris. It was an era of mass consumerism, with the bloom of Jazz, flappers, and the Harlem Renaissance redefining arts and cultures...
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The cultural shift that the United States experienced during the Harlem Renaissance affected the lives of everyday citizens. One factor that affected this cultural shift was the new, lively music you could hear coming from the East coast to the West coast. Jazz was the newly popular music genre during the 1920s. The 1920s was nicknamed the Jazz Age as...
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African Americans and American women have been oppressed by the opinions and laws of white men since the drafting of the Constitution of the United States. African Americans and American womenās most prevalent contributions exist in literature and culture, most predominately in the works of Langston Hugheās āI, Too,ā Zora Neale Hurstonās, āHow It Feels To Be Colored Me,ā Bontempās,...
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To what extent do the media influence perceptions of African Americans in the criminal justice system in the US āStereotypes are not mysterious or arbitrary, but grounded in the observations of everyday life.ā (Eagly, A. 2015, āHow Do Stereotypes Form and Can They Be Altered?ā). Stereotypes are integrated within everyday life due to media representation and personal experiences. On the...
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George Washington Carver or ' peanut man ' was an American Agricultural scientist known for crop rotation, peanut farming, and for inventing ways to prevent soil depletion. George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Missouri on a plantation in the early 1860s. (The exact date is currently unknown) George was born before slavery was abolished. His master, Moses Carver, was...
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Intersectionality & Workplace Diversity In the incident, there are conflicting dynamics and inequalities that exacerbate the realities, identities, and validity of the subjects involved. In this scenario, there are multiple inequalities brought forth in concern. Shirley, though female, is white and heterosexual and Allen is the supervisor. Allen is also white but is homosexual. Robert and Henry are in lower-level...
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Reality television beginning in the 50ās was an amusement to the American TV culture, that used hidden cameras to capture normal people's reactions and everyday behaviors. Todayās television has dating views, ways into the music industry and even shows testing oneās survival skills. Reality television has become one of the biggest nominators in the entertainment industry, reasonings being its appealing...
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Why should black history be taught extensively in schools? Did you know that police killed more than 1000 black lives in the UK in 2020? Did you know that black people are currently 3x more likely to be killed by the police? Did you know that 99% of killings by police between 2013 to 2020 don't result in criminal charges?...
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In the earliest days of American film, African Americans were not in positions to produce a movie about black Americansā, Africa, or any subject pertaining to African American lives and culture, or any subject at all. Conversely, white Americans could produce, make, and distribute any kind of film they wanted and not constrained by their race. Producing a movie about...
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Many movements have happened over the years but none were as powerful as the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance was a social development that gave another lifestyle to African Americans. While Harlem gave off a setting with amazing materials for an artist to thrive, it also highlighted struggles during those times. Things such as verses, books, and...
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During the Mid 1970s, the Black artist began embracing their identity and dedication to black culture through literature. Literature that was created during this period, criticized the government for its mistreatment of black people in America. It displays this style of criticism through two famous pieces What America Would Be Without Blacks by Ralph Ellison and If Black English Isnāt...
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Racism by definition is any act or belief that denies the rights and needs or that degrades a specific person of a different race or someone from different geographical origins from others. Racism does lead to someoneās dignity and life being perceived as lower than others. Historically, racism was once left out in the dark before it was fought for...
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According to Martin Luther King, āThe ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.ā This concept constantly applies to real-world situations and conveys that only when one undergoes severe conflict can one get the best measurement of oneās character. Melba Patillo Beals...
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Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son ā lynched? ā Mamie Bradley, Emmet Tillās mother. Racial injustice has been a prevalent issue for centuries, and in twentieth-century Mississippi, segregation, inequality, and...
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In The Lesson, the narrator overcomes the silence caused by the pigmentation of their skin and finds the moral courage to voice their opinions amidst double standards. In The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Miss Moore educates local children about the unfair distribution of wealth and advises them to strive for a better life. Bambara instills the idea that...
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In the movie Sankofa, the audience was first introduced to slavery and unjust treatment amongst African-Americans, through a number of different scenarios played out in the movie. The opening of the movie starts and engages the audience with a woman named, Mona as a white tourist who is photographing her in modern-day Ghana. Many tourists are visiting the ancient buildings...
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One hundred and three years ago, on February 26, 1917, the first recording of jazz āLivery Stable Bluesā performed by the original Dixieland Jazz Band was released in the United States. But it was a problematic āfirstā as these young musicians claimed to have āinventedā jazz. But it was published at an interesting moment in American history, when the emerging...
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Animation, which can be defined as āa way of making a movie by using a series of drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of objects (such as puppets or models) that are slightly different from one another and that when viewed quickly one after another create the appearance of movementā, according to Merriam Webster. Such an example of animation, as we...
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A type of music that is usually played in the major key and quite popular in America is jazz. It was originally invented in the late 1800s by African-American musicians. However, it didnāt become very popular until the 1900s. By this time, jazz had become an inherent part of American culture. In the 1920, there was a time period known...
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The Article that I read is about an African-American Service member that wanted to prove America wrong about the issue of race. He served alongside Men that were part of the āāTuskegee Airmenāā and the adversities that African-American service members faced during the time of war. The article explains the conflicts that Emmet J Rice faced as an officer in...
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Obesity among African-Americans in the Appalachia (USA) Epidemiology: The Appalachia describes a region of the continental United States that includes 420 counties in 13 states and is home to over 25 million people (ARC, 2017). This region is generally considered to be disadvantaged due to the dearth of human, financial and technical resources that impact social determinants of health in...
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āNative sonā by Richard Wright is an informative novel of the oppression black people faced, specifically living in Chicago in the 1930s. Bigger Thomas was a young African American ;Bigger was forced to suffer the effects and social conditions of the enormous oppression over African Americans due to the racism of people in the 1930s. The oppression applied to African...
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Rhetorical Essay In the āThis Is Americaā source video, Childish Gambino aka Donald Gloverās message is uncanny and loaded with shocking imagery and metaphors. The video has launched a storm of multiple conversations on social media. The music video touches on many layers of gun violence, the increasing state of Black bodies in the United States, and how entertainment has...
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Letās talk about the structure of this poem. Since the structure is rigid and fixed, it structurally mirrors the feeling of dependability that results from courage and bravery as we question lifeās inevitable changes such as racism. At the beginning of the poem, the animalistic metaphor āif we must die, let it not be like hogsā¦ while round us bark...
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