Category: African American

The Critical Look at the Concept of Race and Racial Diversity Race has become a controversial subject throughout the years, ideas and perceptions about race are constantly in motion as society develops. Even today racial minorities continue to face oppression. Race has been created to support racist ideas and create divisions within mankind. We are…

Summary Essay on Momma, the Dentist and Me Introduction: Maya Angelou’s essay, ‘Momma, the Dentist and Me,’ delves into her childhood experiences and the profound influence of her grandmother, whom she lovingly refers to as Momma. In this summary essay, we will provide an overview of the essay’s key themes, memorable moments, and the lasting…

Essay on Momma, the Dentist and Me Introduction: Maya Angelou’s poignant essay, ‘Momma, the Dentist, and Me,’ explores themes of identity, racism, and resilience. In this critical essay, we will delve into the powerful storytelling, the significance of the characters, and the profound impact of Angelou’s work in shedding light on the African American experience…

The Journey of Finding Identity in a Melting Pot Boiling with Stereotypes and Injustice America is often addressed as a melting pot of several cultures, cultures that are embraced and accepted by those of natural citizenship. The latter is a statement of fact, to a certain extent. Its difficult for many people to identify themselves.…

African American Life And Culture In Langston Hughes’ Works From poetry to playwright, Langston Hughes played an important role in American literature. Langston Hughes was undoubtedly one of the most important figures in twentieth-century black American writing (Morley). He had an artistic ability to use literature as a social platform. Langston Hughes work plays a…

The Common Themes in To Kill A Mockingbird and The Help Harper Lees classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird was published in 1960. The novel is based around the 1930s around the time slavery ended but racism and discrimination was very much alive. This would have a been around the same time as the great…

The Portrayal Of African Americans In Langston Hughess Poetry Langston Hughes was an African American poet and activist beginning in the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance, a movement that encouraged people to embrace of black culture as American. Hughes was a prominent advocate for African American culture that was separate from but regarded equally to…

Representations of Race and Ethnicity in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Octavia E. Butler and Colson Whitehead represent race and ethnicity in Kindred and The Underground Railroad respectively in a number of different ways. Published in 1979 and initially set in 1976 California during the antebellum period, Kindred contains elements…

If We Must Die: Analysis Essay Lets talk about the structure of this poem. Since the structure is rigid and fixed, it structurally mirrors the feeling of dependability that results from courage and bravery as we question lifes inevitable changes such as racism. At the beginning of the poem, the animalistic metaphor if we must…

Analysis of Oppressions of Black People in Native Son Native son by Richard Wright is an informative novel of the oppression black people faced, specifically living in Chicago in the 1930s. Bigger Thomas was a young African American ;Bigger was forced to suffer the effects and social conditions of the enormous oppression over African Americans…