African Writers Series

Degrading is to treat or regard with contempt or disrespect.] African Americans and women dealt with being degraded throughout 1800-1900, and Frederick Douglass proved magnificent endeavor to increase the respect and immunity for all African Americans and all women. He was a slave throughout his childhood and young teenage years. Learned how to read and write during his late years of leaving his plantation. Also when he was free he had a lot of abilities in written, and also open his speaking abilities

past. The article, however started with an interesting sentence which caught my attention, especially when the writer says ‘’The American Negro must remark his past in order to make his future’’ (670). This statement according the writer, explains how slavery took away the great deal freedom from people of African descendant, through emancipation and also increase in diversity. The writer (Arthur Schomburg) however, asserts that “the negro has been throughout the centuries of controversy an active

France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. Through these experiences a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as "The Weary Blues" were penned. He returned to Harlem, in 1924, the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his writing flourished. In 1925 he moved to Washington

Chesnutt. Charles Chestnutt is the first African American writer to use folklore in series literature. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 20, 1858, but spent most of his childhood in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Growing up in the south had a lasting impact on him, in that it furnished rich material for his fiction. Therefore, it is not surprising that Chestnutt’s characters, settings, scenes and institutions reflect North Carolina’s culture. As a creative writer blossoming in the 1880s, Chesnutt believed

The Netflix exclusive comedy-drama series, Orange is the New Black, has been a hot topic this past June with the long-awaited release of the show’s fourth season. The series explores the lives of many female inmates and their gratificious interactions with each other, their families, and the prison’s own staff. The series often explores the themes of love, loss, gang activity, misogyny, and most recently, racism. One thing I personally noticed however, was that not only did the plot feature racism

makeovers” (Weber par. 10). This decision saw her create one of the greatest ABC TV show, Grey’s Anatomy, which runs to date – at the end of the first season; Grey’s Anatomy had an audience of over twenty million. She has since then followed with great series including Off the Map (canceled), Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder. These movies and TV shows have earned Shonda a huge fan base, especially since most of her characters

in the African context is not a new venture but a significant discussion to the development of gender, cultural and feminist theorists. This study investigates the limitations to empowerment Africa women face at the hands of patriarchal societies, exacerbated by the oppression and subjugation employed by traditional, cultural and religious norms within two different African countries, that is, Senegal and South Africa. The research analyzes two novels by important women writers in African literature

indigenous Mexican life that conquistadores and dictators such as Díaz kept hidden from view. Building on Cuban and Mexican racial counter-hegemony, modern Latino and African-American writers sought to defy racist law enforcement policies with graffiti. By the mid twentieth-century in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New York, graffiti writers of color channeled Cuban and Mexican anti-racism to defy white police control. In 1960s Los Angeles, artists commissioned by “el movimiento” sought to unite people

empowered women to gain artistic recognition by writing their names on public train-car and building walls. Barbara and Eva 62 got their names up on city walls with highly successful male writers known as “kings” to counter the sexism that affected the careers of Catlett and her contemporaries. Modern female writers made small-scale tags as well as bombastic, large-scale works with detailed, flamboyant characters. So-called queens, such as the skilled Lady Pink, gained “fame” by painting “burner” pieces

As Bryan Crable notes, Burke and Ellison had the closest intellectual and social relationship when Burke was writing A Rhetoric of Motives—and, I would add, when Ellison was writing Invisible Man. Crable points out that the Rhetoric is “the only one of Burke’s books to cite Ellison,” in large part because Ellison’s 1945 essay “Richard Wright’s Blues” (which called Wright’s just-released memoir Black Boy “a nonwhite intellectual’s statement of his relationship to western culture” that illuminates