Essays on African American Culture

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...

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...

Tune onto Hot 107. 5 FM and listen carefully. Count how many times a song played on this radio station references drugs? What race is typically known for listening to drug infested hip hop music? African Americans. Media is just the beginning of our war...

This paper is a cultural interview of DP and her cultural heritage. Interviewed by Dawn Stump. The target audience is the rest of my Class, the purpose it to get a insight into the life and family heritage of my friend DP. DP was brought...

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...

Race is one of the correlates of crime receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Roughly eight-in-ten blacks with at least some college experience (81%) say they’ve experienced racial discrimination, at least from time to time, including 17% who say...

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...

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 Conjure Woman by Charles Chestnutt is a frame narrative, retelling a story within a story and incorporating valuable information about the traditional African fetishism practiced by the slaves against their slave masters. Fetishism or Voodoun provides a source of empowerment and gives the slaves,...

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...

Ernest Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman [1] may be considered a representation of the black Southern experience, with the titular heroine serving as a symbol for the collective of her ethnicity as opposed to a character who holds her own individual significance....

The New Deal The Great Depression really affected how things were going in America. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president who had to address this issue. It was something that the president was optimistic on, stating that he “Promised a new deal and situation for...

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...

Protest movements have sprung difficult conversations in order to create social change, and the impact social media has made on these topics has allowed conversations to be talked about in new ways. Since the shooting and killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin by police officer...

I chose to write about the Black Life Matters movement. The movement’s creation is what caught my attention, The African Americans population was going through a time where young black men were falling victim to police brutality and officers were not being held accountable 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...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau who once said, “All men are born free”. However, this frankly doesn’t apply to those in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, as well as African Americans in this modern day. Throughout the novel, Orwell uses aspects of the government controlling everyone...

Ostensibly, the Ann Petry’s novel The Street describes the work’s windy urban setting and introduces the protagonist Lutie Johnson and her desire to find an apartment that suits her needs. On a deeper level, this novel portrays the ever-present and all-encompassing challenges of life in...

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...