Bitter Is The New Black Analysis

The 2nd Brigade of 101st Airborne Division found out in the summer of 2004 that they had to prepare for the war in the Middle East more particularly for Iraq. With Colonel Todd Ebel in Command of the 2nd Division with a year to prepare over 3,400 men and woman he got right to work. Colonel Ebel started by choosing his staff and who he thought was fit to take charge and lead this ever more complicated war. It was a huge religious civil war taking place in Iraq at the time with the Sunnis at war against the Shi’ite and after the capture of Saddam insurgency started uprising immediately. This uprising along with the uprising of Muqtada al-Sadr a key leader that had lots of violent followers that soon grew into a form of a militia called

At the school she attended, her white friends tried to rub off her blackness. That one sentences when I read it, I was in shock! How could they do that to her? I continued reading and read she tried out for the football team. Eventually, as she grew older, and the years went by, she became a mother of two children named Alberta Stewart and Norma Holt, and a grandmother of five grandchildren Crystal, Alyssa, Michael, and Drew Stewart, and Sabrina Holt. Even though she had children and grandchildren’s, she felt her identity, as a Black Deaf woman was not defined, it was not until later in life where she found her

Reading the content in this book made me get a picture of what it was like to be a colored person in this time. My eyes were opened to the meaning of the word “nigga”. Nigga is such a derogatory term, yet now-a-days it is used by people so much. Kids in this generation use it as a term of endearment when they see their friends, or they say it when they are shocked by something. Frankly, I don’t believe they know how serious it really is. The fact that white people could look at a person and see less than a human being when they did nothing wrong distresses me. They (white people) treated them as if they were property and below them. Even though we don’t have racism to this extent

This powerful memoir is a testament to the potential love and determination that can be exhibited despite being on the cusp of a nation's racial conflicts and confusions, one that lifts a young person above

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford is a book mostly about self-reliance and maintaining friendship. One theme is self reliance because in the book, Henry is able to do what he think is right and he is able to make decisions without others influencing them. In the novel, Henry's Dad does not approve of Keiko because she is Japanese and he is Chinese. The father does everything that he can do to stop Keiko and Henry from continuing their friendship and crush. He goes to Henry and straight up forbids him to see her. Henry defies his father and continues to be with Keiko, causing his father to practically disown him, and forcing his mother to do the same. They did not communicate with one another for years, and right up

A lack of self-awareness tended the narrator’s life to seem frustrating and compelling to the reader. This lack often led him to offer generalizations about ““colored” people” without seeing them as human beings. He would often forget his own “colored” roots when doing so. He vacillated between intelligence and naivete, weak and strong will, identification with other African-Americans and a complete disavowal of them. He had a very difficult time making a decision for his life without hesitating and wondering if it would be the right one.

If you stop and sit on the curb, a police officer will pass and probably ask you what you’re doing. I have heard none of the Negroes speak of police harassment, but have warned me that any time the police see a Negro idling, especially one they do not recognize, they will surely question him.(pg.43)

The hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet is a novel written by Jamie Ford. This book takes place in between 1940s to 1990s, during the World War II. This is when the Japanese’s were forced into concentration camps. Some were temporarily to live in horse stalls. This is a fictional story between a Japanese girl and a Chinese boy. Jamie Ford uses characters to show most relationships can survive anything.

In Spencer (2008) article, he reflected his own views on the issues of oppression, power, and privilege as a person of color with his own personal experience. So, I decided also to reflect on my own views but not just as a person of color, but also as women. Growing up in a predominately black

Brent Staples memoir "Just Walk on By" is a short powerful story of what his daily life is like as a black man in America. Staples works for the New York Times as an editorial writer and also an author. He has written two books, the first a memoir named Parallel Time: Growing up In Black and White and second called An American Love Story (wikipedia.org). He is a well-educated man who not only received his BA in behavioral science but also continued his education as far as receiving his Ph.D. in psychology (thehistorymakers. org). Due to his successes, it makes his memoir more shocking to see that despite his life accomplishments, he still struggles in a world that has racial stigmas. Brent Staples is a great example of how to write a memoir due to his organization of the text, literary devices, and his use of rhetorical appeals. In the following essay, these rhetorical strategies Staples uses will be broken down further to show why his essay is a strong mentor text.

The three authors that taught me the most about writing were Brent Staples, E.B. White, and Martin Gansberg. I was amazed at Staples’s use of a personal example to get his point across, White’s way of organizing his essay between past and present, and finally, Gansberg’s way of using emotion to help support his main idea. Brent Staples essay Just Walk on By was very original, I don’t think I’ve ever read a story that really made me think about my prejudices. This essay used emotion to show how our prejudices truly affect us “I was 22 years old, a graduate student newly arrived at the University of Chicago. It was in the echo of that terrified woman’s footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I’d come into—the ability to alter public space in ugly ways” Staples writes in his essay speaking about how his skin tone caused a woman to feel fearful based on her own preconceived ideas.

At the age of 15, Chloe Baker of New Jersey, is able to produce, what she describes as honest, and melancholy music. Baker's musical sound revolves around her self-expressive, and unique mindset that brings hope to the listeners, while also showcasing reality, in the form known as Bitter's Kiss. Underneath the surface, the project is a collaboration between young Baker, and her father, Michael Baker, whose musical upbringing and experience, helped his daughter release her voice.

This crisis had changed her “self” from within when getting away from the upsetting environment that she was in and to be with animals that felt no pity for her. She found peace within herself and her surroundings. Most African Americans like Goodall found strength within that “self” and became a part of a social change. Similarly, African Americans participated in the protests and at the NAACP movement seeking for equality between the blacks and the whites. They had to go through social change or a tough experience in life that made them realize that enough was enough and to cope with their grief was through social change. Gladwell speaks on the behalf of the protesters who found strength to fight back saying, “It spread to those cities which had preexisting “movement centers”-a core of dedicated and trained activists ready to turn the “fever” into action” (Gladwell 139). Those people who lived in small towns that no one heard of still were going through what the rest of the African Americans were going through. Each and everyone of them had to go through the pain which lead to a personal change for them, becoming an activist who is ready to fight for a social change. One of the stages of grief, is denial where you question everything that comes to mind. Grieving changes a person’s inner self or the “self” Goodall refers to that makes them want to be a part of a social change or activism. A personal change can include losing someone or being let

“Orange is the New Black” is Netflix’s hit new original series. Currently in its second season, OINTB has received critical acclaim (Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes) for its unusual subject matter as well as its varied and multi-dimensional portrayal of race, gender, class, queer and trans issues. However, while it excels specifically with issues of gender and sexuality, the show falters a bit more on issues of race and class.

This feeling of rage is manifested from the experience of an overabundance of racism blacks face in their everyday lives. She defends the idea that rage, when correctly directed, can be a starting point for good. It can be a promoter for change. This essay is based on her experience aboard an airline with a close friend and the injustice treatment they receive based on the color of their skin. Her friend had been publicly attacked and accused of taking a first class seat that wasn’t assigned to her, although she was actually sitting in the correct seat. In her essay she states a compelling point, “…I feel that the vast majority of black folks who are subjected daily to forms of racial harassment have accepted this as one of the social conditions of our life in white supremacist patriarchy that we cannot change. This acceptance is a form of complicity.” (hooks, pg 10). She speaks on the complicity of blacks facing oppression and inequality. Killing rage is the creation of fierce anger blacks are felt after repeated instances of everyday racism. It is in this rage that healing can be fueled through love and strength. The incentive for a positive change can also be found through this powerful rage. bell hooks offers an intriguing response to this inequality, she believes that it is necessary to have rage to resist and not be complicit. She states that black activists that want progressive change need to