Anti-miscegenation laws

Still images are not the only form of visual texts that rhetorical scholars have identified as perpetuating racism. Television productions have similar effects. In his piece, “May the Circle Stay Unbroken: Friends, the Presence of Absence, and the Rhetorical Reinforcement of Whiteness”, Phil Chidester examines how the popular sitcom Friends can function, just as the discursive practices mentioned earlier, to reinforce racial identity without explicit acknowledgement of race. Chidester contends…

In the article, The Destructive Nature of the Term Race: Growing Beyond a False Paradigm by Susan Chavez Cameron & Susan Macias Wycoff, argue that race is a social construction to justify inhumane acts against those who are seen inferior based on their phenotype such as the color of their skin, stature, etc.... The views about race inequality are explained in the article and unfortunately supported by mental health professionals. Notably, some mental health professionals have preserve race…

While identity begins with a foundation at birth through genetics, like ethnicity, that are given without choice, identity is a multi-faceted, shaped by responses to trial and tribulations and the environmental circumstances. With all the cultures of the world comes the stereotypes that are paired with them, now whether an individual’s response is to live by and follow them or not is what helps create his or her identity. Robin D. G. Kelley, a black professor and author, has two black parents,…

The younger generation of Negro writers during the New Negro Arts Movement created a space in which Their Eyes Were Watching God could exist within. Alain Locke (1885-1954) and Langston Hughes both advocated for the inclusion of art that was not solely political, or at least not solely adhering to the positive, respectability aspects of political theory. Locke, himself, found his voice to be in inherent opposition to the stringent views of Du Bois and went on to transcend the restraints of…

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is an example of blatant disregard for the American creed which clearly states “Justice for all”, whereas the white population (people of European decent) with syphilis received the penicillin treatment without having to participate in what would be identified as the unethical study, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. There was an obvious difference in treatment between the two groups of people. Therefore, the people of this study were deceived into participating with no…

Zoot suit Essay The zoot suit book is full of racial prejudice events,and even in the real world.So in a way zoot suit is a metaphor for what real life is like.For example,Don King drops the N word, september 22 ,2016.Also on september 16, 2016 an unarmed black man was shot and killed by a officer.September 29, 2016, in San Diego, Calif., to address the killing of Olango, a Ugandan refugee shot by an El Cajon police officer on Tuesday. The most common racism is towards black people.Donald…

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) have many differences, from where (and how) they grew up to where they stood during the fight of racial differences. Martin Luther King grew up in a well known family-in his area- while Malcolm X was a stranger to most people. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. grew up with absolutely different surroundings. MLK lived in a loving family; whale Malcolm X had to suffer through the murder of his father, his house getting burned down, and his mother…

By exploring the intertextuality between a text and its adaption, understandings of the underlying issues within the texts can be further developed. Alterations in the ways in which the plots are delivered reflect the different contexts of the composers and in advance, reflect on the values of the other text via comparison. The film adaption of Shakespeare’s play Othello, Othello (2001) directed by Geoffrey Sax, shows this interlink between two texts that, when contrasted, will broaden the…

In the book “The Warmth of Other Suns”, Isabel Wilkerson portrays the many struggles that black people had to go through in the late 1800s and early 1900s. “The Piano Lesson” can be compared and contrasted to “The Warmth of Other Suns” in many different ways; one being that it doesn’t go into as much detail about The Great Migration. Instead, it focused on a specific family, and included some of the issues they had to face. Even though the two books are not completely the same, “The Warmth of…

the audience until they can shake off the foreboding message, but they may begin to recognize signs as explained by Dr. Johnson. Things like noticing patterns in propaganda and paying more attention to cases of African American deaths at the hands of law enforcement are very likely effects of listening to the…