Blackness

James Cone’s significance in the history of twentieth-century theology is usually characterized according to his programmatic role in defining early black theology. Cone is associated with the “classical” moment in black theology’s dissident articulation which led to disciplinary recognition, and generated traditions of criticism and elaboration. This line of characterization that emphasizes Cone’s role in classical black theology is no doubt uniquely important in the history of modern theology,…

In the Ghanaian language, Akan, the term Sankofa means to return to your past and reclaim it. In Haile Gerima’s film, Sankofa, he portrays a story of identity and rediscovery of the past and ancestry through time-travel in which Mona, an African-American model, possesses the body of a house-slave named Shola. Shola’s journey from a compliant house slave to a rebellious enslaved woman permits Mona to relearn her African culture and history and in the end, she emerges with a newfound consciousness…

construct. In America, this major societal aspect yielded by those who have racial superiority complexes, whites, while the darker skin-toned Americans are the most marginalized. In Erasure, author Percival Everett argues against this collective “blackness” which so dominates society’s perception of African Americans. Similarly, Zora Neale Hurston stresses the importance of a person’s individuality rather than their group, ethnicity or race. Both African American writers argue the deconstruction…

frustration, she wants readers to understand that race is an ideologically construction. Throughout the history of African-Americans, their skin color has naturally indicated ra-cial identity. The most prominent type of racialize ranking represents blackness as a condition to be despised, their crinkly hair, big round noses, and thick lips have been, mostly negative, de-scriptions of…

Drago represented Russia as a ruthless machine that wanted to kill anyone or anything showing no signs of emotion. In the movie Hurricane, Rubin aka Denzel Washington was portrayed in a much similar way, instead the film entertains the idea of “blackness”, that all blacks act aggressive and confrontational towards the police. At that time Russia became the bigger topic, which was a rising super power, the stereotyping of blacks was less portrayed at the time of the cold…

ell’s story points out the racial tension in America through a seemingly outrageous analogy: aliens ask for all African Americans to be taken from the country in exchange for gold, fuel, and chemicals to restore the suffering environment. The story illustrates a largely racist America, with Washington jumping at the possibility of giving their black population to the aliens. America ultimately agrees to the inhumane proposal, sentencing their able-bodied black population to an unknown future.…

In the novel The Bluest Eye Morrison 's message of beauty is related to society 's perception and acceptance of white culture and its impact on African Americans that causes them to question their self worth in a racist society; the author demonstrates these concepts through, direct characterization, symbols, and various point of views that highlight the serious problem of psychological oppression on young African American children in which racism impacts their self perception of their beauty by…

Censorship in a Society Is censorship right or wrong? Many people believe the way you use it defines whether is correct or wrong. Clearly in some societies, if it is not used correctly it can be detrimental. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950’s. Where censorship plays a key role in how the society and people are treated. Individuals In this dystopian society are controlled by mass media which is controlled by the government. The government does…

the mood and setting of this poem. What I understand from the first three lines is that it is a dark eerie night with violent wind and just cloudy enough that the clouds cover the bright full moon, with a long winding road lit by nothing in the blackness of night.…

Jocques Roumain is an excellent writer that shows audience the essence of the Haitians activism through his beautiful novel "The preface to the life of a bureaucrat." The atavism which was a typical element that characterized the governmental authorities for decades. This novel was published in 1930 and in this period a lot of relevant events happened in Haiti. Eustache Antoine Francois Joseph Louis Borno was a lawyer who later became president of Haiti during the period of American…