Amiri Baraka

Dutchman Dutchman written by Amiri Baraka is a perfect example of how race can play in important part in how you are perceived. In this story a powerful middle-aged white women tries to seduce a younger aged African-American man that presented himself as intelligent and well dressed. This play was written during a time when our world was very closed minded about race specifically with those who were of color. In the early 1960’s white was the major race and white americans were who were superior

George Orwell’s book 1984 is the gift that keeps on giving for those that find dissent with their government. This book paints a bleak picture of a totalitarian government that lies to, spies on and generally abuses its citizens. “The themes in this novel have become a major part of modern culture, as have terms such as big brother and doublespeak” (Staff Writers, 2010). We even have a show on American television called “Big Brother” where contestants are watched and scrutinized by cameras that

The Rift Within The Black Artist: The Subtle Mountain Langston Hughes describes in his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” a metaphorical mountain that stands between aspiring black artists and the white and upper class black populos. This mountain is built by those upper class black people in an effort to separate themselves from their past culture, hoping to make themselves more respectable in the eyes of white people. This essay describes the societal mountain, that mountain that

Micah Briggs HSTV 440 Essay 1 Please discuss the social, political, and economic conditions of the 1950’s; which lead to the social upheaval of the 1960’s. In the 1950s the United States was marked by economic growth and an increase in manufacturing and home construction due to the post WWII economic boom. The Cold War also began during this time frame and brought with it many conflicts that helped create the proliferation of a politically conservative environment throughout the country

The black nationalism and transformationalism are two major ideologies or themes portrayed throughout the history of Africans. However, these two ideologies often appeared to be conflicting instead of complimenting each other. Even from the beginning, various organizations, people, and approaches were separated by these ideologies. In this section of We Shall Overcome: The Reconstruction, many great figures like Martin Luther King, Newton, Gary and various organizations explicitly conveyed how exactly

This course has expanded my knowledge on things that I have learned prior to taking the course. When learning about Booker T. Washington I learned details about him that I was unaware of. For an example, when reading the quote “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” Washington, Booker the Atlanta Explosion Address, written by himself 1901 The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, edited

The world and everything in it is different and relative at the same time. Words define a life, but not a culture, stories can tell someone’s life, but cannot be compared to a poem's way of describing a situation. In a way, a poem is none comparable to the incredible detail they give, with their way with words, a story and an image to represent to each individual that reads it. From this, imaginations take hold, all readers see everything differently. Today’s world, poems are everywhere, yet nowhere

Emory Douglas is an African American artist from San Fransisco. He is best known for his political publications and revolution art works, which began with the Black Arts Movement in the early 1960s and then the Black Panther Party later in the decade. Violence in Emory Douglas’ works stems from the 1960s Black Liberation Movement where “Black communities and other minorities” began to identify as a part of the “Third World” fighting for liberation from the Western colonial powers. This movement

Langston Hughes Jazz Poetry and Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes was an African American poet who was born on 01 February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His parents separated and later divorced during his childhood. Subsequently he was raised predominantly by his maternal grandmother. His grandparents were politically active and supporters of the abolition of slavery. They were activists in the movement for voting rights for African Americans. Through their active involvement in his upbringing

August Wilson: Poet, Playwright, and So Much More August Wilson is a man who, outside of the theatrical world, is not very well known. Yet there are those, like Paul Carter Harrison, who would rank him in "the same 'artistic continuum' as Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Thelonius Monk."1 When I began research on August Wilson I asked myself, so what? So what if he's won awards and recognition? What has he done to merit them? What makes this man important enough to do a research paper