Blacks Essay

WGST 300—BLACK CINEMA Option A: Select two or more films from this course and compare and/or contrast them, using one or more of the above criteria (shared themes, etc.). SUPERFLY and DUTCHMAN “Lights, camera, and action!!” A popular phrase noted throughout the film and cinematic industry, but to directors, actors, and viewers of African American or Black Cinema this famous phrase helped jumpstart a movement throughout the black culture. Starting with radical movies that explained racial undertones

Black Entrepreneurship In 2017 I must be honest with you and share my opinion on black entrepreneurship, especially in 2017. With the new presidential candidate officially in office, black men and women, hopefully, will be more open to the idea of becoming their own bosses. Whenever I hear someone still blaming their financial situations on the “white man” or groan that they can't find a suitable position, I cringe. You, too? It drives me totally insane and I want to cry out loud. Did we not learn

The Black Plague What is the Black Plague? The Black Plague first was found in Europe around the 1300’s, killing roughly about 25 million people. The disease was often carried by rats and their fleas. People contracted the plague when they were bitten by a flea that carried the plague bacteria from a rodent. The cause of plague was not discovered until the famous outbreak in China, in 1855. The first breakthrough came in Hong Kong, when researchers secluded the rodent bacteria, known as,Yersinia

foundation for the study of black sociology and the work of scholars such as E. Franklin Frazier (Vissing, 2011). In this paper I will discuss why I feel that W.E.B Du Bois views align with my personal views. W.E.B Du Bois real name is William Edwards Burghardt and was born

“The Black Finger” Angelina Grimke’s poem, “The Black Finger” is one of the shortest poems that we have read this year. As far as I’m concerned, it is also one of the most intriguing poems that we have read this year. I have read the poem at least thirty or forty times trying to pick up on new things that I may have missed before. In all of my readings I haven’t necessarily picked up on any new words or phrases that lead me to believe new things. I have, however, formed new visions of

alibi as a means of guaranteeing “freedom of speech”, which can give them the capacity to negatively reinforce negative language or trivialize it. For intense, the band “Black Pussy”, a stoner rock band who have no connection to “Black Pussy” except in name. Hamad (2015) argues that this trivializes the oppression suffered by black women and holds no artistic value whatsoever. An analysis of the band's discography does imply that they do not strive use their name for anything other than “free speech”

12 Years a Slave attributes to the black resistance of individual characters throughout the film’s narrative plot. The main representations of black resistance is that of Northup’s tactics to fight for himself and that of the women featured throughout the film. Patsey plays a major role, along with Northup, to change the discourse of slavery, representing the black resistance as a major and prominent theme throughout the film’s course. The notion of black resistance is what the slaves in the

Black Holes Albert Einstein first predicted black holes in 1916 with his general theory of relativity. The term "black hole" was coined in 1967 by American astronomer John Wheeler, and the first one was discovered in 1971. A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying. Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are

this week’s readings we discuss black public intellectuals. This is examined in different was. Nada Elia’s Cornel West’s Representations of the Intellectual: But Some of Us Are Brave? discusses black intellectuals place within society. She begins by stating that she will be disproving the perception of Cornel West. West believes that “there are (only) two organic intellectual traditions in African-American life: the Black Christian tradition of teaching and the Black musical tradition of performance”

The Title: DuBois and Black Nationalism The Epigraph: "The colored people are coming to face the fact quite calmly that most white Americans do not like them, and are planning neither for their survival, nor their definite future" W.E.B. DuBois "A Negro Nation within the Nation" The Premise: Black Nationalism is a pragmatic solution for the success and survival of the oppressed African Americans. The Argument: Black Nationalism is defined by Karenga, as the political belief and practice