Category: African American

Modern contemporary artist Vanessa German reflects the idea that black people make themselves bright against the slaughter of our own names in a culture of a society that never visioned the Black Body into freedom, resources, or power. Just as Vanessa German empowers the black community by showing its resilience and voice, many artists during…

In attaining this objective, this paper aims to discuss an exact period of African American cultural development in America, the ‘Harlem Renaissance’, an important period that substantially influenced the evolution of African American theater. It examines some of the factors that have contributed to the comparatively slow progression of African American theater as a subgroup…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time period when African Americans moved to Harlem, New York to be themselves and express their culture through literature, music stage, performance, and art. The Renaissance occurred from 1918 to the mid-1930s. In Mother to Son, the author depicts the struggle an African American mother faced with oppression and prejudice…

For centuries, designers have been using visual art to express their feelings, inform others, and communicate with the masses to spread their message. Evidence of visual art can be traced back to the prehistoric Era, where pictographs were painted on cave walls to convey information to one another as seen in the Magura Cave in…

The Harlem Renaissance is following racial injustice and in the play, it shows that. When Mr.Lindner showed up at the Youngers home he tried to convince them not to move into the new home because they would be the first African American family to move into that neighborhood. Although he tried to make his statement…

The Great Gatsby is a commentary on life in the 1920s as it pertains to prohibition and the racial injustice facing African Americans. It provides several instances of the underground use of alcohol and the general feeling of superiority among white people. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Tom Buchanan to portray the way that many white…

Currently, a persistent and highly structured racial hierarchy exists in the United States. Such a hierarchy has been central in the countrys political development, from the countrys founding, the longevity of African American slavery and Native American genocide, and the existence of Jim Crow laws and immigrant social segregation. The civil rights movement of the…

Home to Harlem sold eleven thousand copies in the first two weeks of its publication, fifty thousand during its first year, and was the first best-seller written by a black writer in America. Nevertheless, its depiction of lower-class Harlemites did appall some of the American black leaders, most notoriously W.E.B. Du Bois. In his 1928…

Ayana Mathis once said, If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That’s nation-building. Ayana Mathis is an African American author who has written a few books…

The Article that I read is about an African-American Service member that wanted to prove America wrong about the issue of race. He served alongside Men that were part of the Tuskegee Airmen and the adversities that African-American service members faced during the time of war. The article explains the conflicts that Emmet J Rice…