Miss Black America

“There She Is- Miss America- There She Is- Your Ideal” (Parks). The iconic theme song by Bert Parks that brought millions together to declare America's ‘next beauty’ is heavily coated in toxicity. While the idea of naming the newest American ideal is promoted as joyous and light-hearted, some find this disturbing and sexist. Societal standards that are largely proliferated by men encourage women from a young age to believe that beauty is their ‘greatest weapon’. Women are taught that they should

lawyer and has agreed to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, who is accused of raping a white girl, Mayella

during the 1930s. This story revolves around the case of Tom Robinson, a black man charged with rape by a white family. The protagonist, Scout, is the daughter of Atticus, who is Tom’s lawyer. Scout is a young girl who is exposed to new things revolving around the case. Throughout the book, alongside Scout is her older brother, Jem. Important characters that interfere with the concept of hypocrisy include Miss Gates, who is Scout

demons threat Tang people and how his grandfather was lynched just as he stepped on the land. Moon Shadow then gets a letter from his father, Windrider, asking Moon Shadow to come to America with his uncle, Hand Clap. Mother and Grandmother think it is a bad idea to go but he goes anyway. After the voyage over to America, Moon Shadow gets inspected by Uncle Bright Star and then goes to hug his father. He learns that all Tang people live in Tang town also known as Chinatown. His

relocated due to dogmatism and intolerance of melanin diverging out the of pores of many white southerners. The African Americans who migrated found new opportunities both economic and artistic that resulted to the creation of a stable middle class Black –Americans (Dover, 2006). This was the Harlem Renaissance a cultural, social, and artistic explosion. The core of Harlem expressed by Alain Locke is that through art, “negro life is seizing its first chances for group expression and self-determination

The 1960s were about progress and community, which is evident by the near constant protests that occurred at the time. In the 70s, there was a push-back against the civil rights progress in favor of returning to a 50's esque society, promoted by the white-working class, which caused many to become frustrated and angry at the state of the country. The 1960s, began with an unforgettable presidential election between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon. It was the first Presidential election ever broadcasted

condescending outlook of most white people toward the black race in the rural American South through the perception of black house maids, or “the help,” in the early to mid-twentieth century. Though black people had been set free from the bondage of slavery for nearly one hundred years, black citizens still faced oppression from the predominantly white elites of society all across the southern states. It is through Stockett’s strategic placing of the character Miss Skeeter in the novel that she illuminates the

African-American slavery in America, where-by black people gained more freedom in the land. However, a power imbalance between the black and white is still present. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines gives readers insight to the immense abuse and hatred towards black people in the 1940s of America and furthers the reader's knowledge of black segregation and how the black people never gave up for their freedom and rights. The novel’s main plot follows Grant Wiggins, a young black man who was given the

United States of America supposedly encompasses resilience and advocates equality. Apparently, the United States of America abides for progress on racial discrimination and understands, accepts, and respects all races. But in reality we are not united with all races; thus we just make up America, not the United States of America. President Barack Obama affirms, “....there is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America” (Obama). In

On September 7th, 1968, hundreds of women gathered on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, carrying signs and singing songs that all had the main theme of protesting the Miss America Pageant. Later, they threw items of women’s oppression in what they called a freedom trash can. While the women who were apart of the Miss America Protest worked to defy society’s oppression and standards, they also marked one of the first explorations in the feminist movement. This certain protest helped to pave the way for