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rapper" (Prince Paul, The Source 16) The lyrics of rappers are very similar to the words of Black poets. It is argued as to wether or not rap is a viable form of poetry. Both discuss similar subjects, write in the same style and use the same type of language in their writings. When looking at a poem or reading rap lyrics, distinguishing between the two can be difficult, if not impossible.Both Black rappers and Black poets write about the same subjects. For example the rap group NWA, and the poet Alice

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”

murder. If they would have caught Lennon Lacy’s murderer that person may have been sentenced with felony murder. Another comparison is black people getting treated unfairly. Steve is getting treated unfairly because he was black and a teenager and some of those people may have still been convinced that Steve was apart of the murder over stereotypes. Lennon Lacy was black and a teenager so they had conspiracies about the situation stating that he brung it upon himself that his life had to be ended. My

movement can have a profound effects on the visual art, this essay will focus on the black art movement of the 1960s and

Phipps and Kenneth Bancroft Clark are best known for their “doll studies,” and the use of their findings regarding the effects of racism on the psychological identity of black children in the historic Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case, which lead to the determination that separate but equal education for black students was unconstitutional. Mamie Phipps Clark was born April 18, 1917 to a middle class doctor from Hot Springs, Arkansas (Gibbons & Van Nort, 2009, p. 29). Because

Confederate Women in Wartime In the American history, Civil War takes one of the prominent places due to the significance of it role in formation of American consciousness. The Civil Was of 1861-1865 identified the directions that the nation would take in the future development. Still, despite the importance of this event in the history of the United States, its impact on different spheres of human lives is commonly given less attention than necessary for understanding of the future changes in the

Society In today’s American society, being born black is often life threatening and comes with many struggles and fears. The author Brent Staples visibly demonstrates the presence of black men, in his article “Black Men and Public Spaces”. Staples illustrates to the readers how black men attempt to live their lives as normal as possible, but are unable to because of the fear society has of them. Brent Staples attests to the turbulent lives black men face in society, from their childhood to an adult

Oh, to be a Black woman in America. When I entered college my interest consistently gravitated into the African American courses, since I wanted to learn more about my ancestors and my cultural history. The course name alone completely captured my attention and I could not pass up the option for this to be one of my elective classes this semester. Prior to this course, I had not taken a class that was centered around my gender or race. Therefore, I had hoped to learn more about the internal and external

woman as a ‘black’ mother perpetuates an ideology that blackness is not encompassed in mothering. The black woman never granted the opportunity, during or after slavery, to access the white privilege of motherhood. Thus, she cannot attain the white definition of motherhood. Alice Walker with her writing would see no problem with the removal of the black woman from an apparent white ideal of motherhood. Womanism, then would stand in solidarity for the misunderstood “bad” mothers/ “black”

British Imperialism In many respects, the Boer War resembles the struggle toward globalization a century later that Friedman describes in The Lexus and the Olive Tree. The British, with their more advanced industry and technology, attempted to pull the Boer Republics away from the Olive tree and into the new global economy, golden straightjacket and all. The British Empire had much at stake in the conflict, and eventually achieved its main goals. It protected its holding at Cape Town, which