Essays on African American Culture

In order to rationalize the south’s peculiar institution of slavery, the southern plantation novel surfaced. It idealized the plantation lifestyle by creating and romanticizing characters that otherwise would be viewed upon as evil by blacks—the oppressed. Life was portrayed as easy and carefree by the...

Toni Morrison’s A Mercy deals with life’s biggest problems regarding the choice to love and protect over the ability to stay close to the ones that you love. The end of the novel, narrated by Florens mother, gives key insight to the foundations of the...

We have all experienced a moment, in some way, shape, or form that has helped shape us into who we are today. Whether it was a monumental moment or a moment as small as a grape, everyone can recall a moment that has changed them....

In the article, “Food For the Soul’, a human rights defender, and a two time Pulitzer Prize Winner Nicholas Kristof discussed the profits of traditional family farms over modern industrial agriculture. In his article, Kristof engaged readers to accept his ideas and take his side...

This research paper is for those who tend to eat food specifically geared toward their culture and have never veered from it. One would see this research essay as a form of reference/reasoning to their many questions regarding the upheld idea that soul food is...

Within every ethnic group there are many forms of culture. Each culture is divided into various categories. These categories can be referred to as subcultures. Subcultures are smaller segments of a culture that are not against the culture. Examples of these subcultures are music, religion,...

The extent to which the New Deal was effective for African Americans has been a topic of dispute among historians. The New Deal was a series of programs put in place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the aim of establishing relief and recovery for...

The story Sister Lilith by Fanonne Jeffers is written in African American language where the narrator, ‘Lilith’ tries to reclaim her identity. The storyline is Afrofuturistic because human creation started in Africa and the concept of feminism was introduced by Lilith and it is now...

Honoreer Fanonne Jeffers’s 2000 story “Sister Lilith” it is a story about female character who was created from the mud together with her husband Adam, then they were blessed with little son known as Cain. According to the text Lilith describes their “Skin darker than...

When Misty Copeland was a child, she loved to compose her own dance with Mariah Carey songs. As she grew older, her talent about dance more brighter. This is the reason why she became to the captain of Dana drill team when she going to...

The target population is heterosexuals, low-income African-Americans, ages 18 to 25 residing in San Francisco, California. In San Francisco, African American young adults are at higher risk for acquiring gonorrhea infection relative to other races/ ethnicities’ youth adults. Respectively, in 2010, the target population ages...

In African Americans, Outdoor Recreation, and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot by Colin Fisher. He discusses how nature played a huge role in African American Citizens life in the 19th Centuries. The author went on to talk about one of the most violent altercations in...

It is wrong to refer to the writers of Negritude as the first writers of sub-Saharan Africa. Indeed, if their advent has been a landmark in the history of black African literature, it must be noted that writers in southern Africa were the first to...

Many people believed Jim Crow was a person, yet in fact it was an era. This period of time had an impact on the lives of millions of individuals. It was named after a famous song in the 19th century that stereotype African Americans. It...

Rosa Parks is someone who grew up believing people should not be categorised and judged by the skin of their color. Rosa Parks is known for standing up for African Americans rights when she refused to go to give up her seat for a white...

Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in the United States. He was one of the most influential Civil Rights advocates that had been able to shut down segregation in schools. Justice Thurgood Marshall had accomplishments that made his place significant in...

What is Motown and what is Soul music? What makes them similar and what makes them different? Motown started in Detroit, Michigan the name is also defined as motor town. Motown played is an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an...

In Ann Petry’s novel The Street, even the most simple, everyday objects take on fiendish personalities and shifting, threatening aspects. From the cruel wind in the story’s opening chapter to the hard, bitter street itself, glaring situational cruelty and injustice brings vivid color to the...

Viewed as a Naturalist novel, with its realistic prose, indifferent environment, and an aesthetic network built around motifs, the narrative of Ann Petry’s The Street reads like a mid-century black version of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie: a woman (Carrie is single; Lutie Johnson is saddled...