The New Black

In its opening credits, Spike Lee’s Clockers features photos of dead young black men sliding across the frame. These images of lifelessness are paired with a somber ballad with lyrics pondering a place of solace and understanding, a place inaccessible to the black male despite compliance or revolt. The viewer is confronted by this slideshow of bloodied black bodies for nearly three minutes. There are cuts to crowds at crimes scenes. People stand, talking or looking on in silence, seemingly desensitized

impacted by society's principles. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the ways that an individual is influenced by society's dominant views are explored via various literary techniques. Another text that does this is Orange is the New Black, directed by Jenji Kohan, in particular, episodes 10 and 11 of season 3. Both composers have expressed the ways in which society's hegemonic standards regarding racism and gender have impacted an individual's self beliefs. In both Lee's and Kohan's

Nice Blonde Ladies Don’t Go to Prison Piper Kerman, a freelance producer living in New York City with her boyfriend, was incarcerated in 2004 for money laundering and drug trafficking. She tells this story in her memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. Kerman tells her audience about her escapades in her twenties, and her normal life afterwards. But one day she is greeted with two police officers at her door, and things go downhill from there. Kerman is later arrested after

Late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century Europe are classified by a time of change and the start to new beginnings. The Black Death left all of Europe in shambles and in a state of extreme disorder. The population decreased dramatically and the economic, social and political state was extremely hindered. Through the reformation and renaissance Europe finally began to somewhat recover from this catastrophe. This time of change became a cultural movement all across Europe that began to reform

The Black community has been oppressed since colonial times through various social constructs, and even though the shackles of slavery are gone the shackles of oppression within our communities, media and racial ideologies continue to feed racism today. According to Collins “Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism”, racism has evolved over the years in different forms producing the “New Racism”, Straight Outta Compton and To Kill a Mockingbird are two mainstream films

Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks tells the story of a young teenage boy trying to survive as a boot black on the streets of New York during the period of industrialization. Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks overall is very accurate in its portrayal of the era. Several examples throughout this work can be used to justify this such as Dick’s occupations, his enjoyment of theatre

The LGBT community is a group that often falls victim to negative stereotyping. LGBT is an acronym for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender that categorizes a community of individuals that are a part of the sexual minority (Swain, 2007). One community that falls under the umbrella of the LGBT acronym is the transgender community. This community consists of transgender individuals, a general term to describe those who do not conform to typical gender roles, transsexuals who desire to be recognized

In my research paper I will be addressing a movement known as “Black Lives Matter”. The topic of my paper will be discussing the oppression of African Americans in America. I will approach this topic by researching civil rights movements from the past that are similar to the current black lives matter movement. My research methods will include analyzing interviews from activist who participated in civil rights movement, reading articles and books for information on the topic. I will identify race

Coming Out of the Darkness: The Journey a New Black Nation When I survey the current state of black America, or blacks internationally, what I see hurts me to the core. We are the most marginalized, abused and oppressed group of people in the world. For years, I have been anatomizing the issues to determine the cause. I am a person who believes in identifying causation, because if you can identify causation, you can develop a strategy to stop the negative forces that are behind the current situation

from the great success of the 1920’s, a day forever known as “Black Tuesday”, on October 29, 1929 the Stock Market crashed. The crash sent the country to a dark age called the “Great Depression”. Banks closed, people lost their jobs, people lost their homes and absolutely nothing was done by President Hoover. He was voted out of office and Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed office and introduced a new project called “The New Deal”. The New Deal introduced multiple acts to get america back on it’s feet