African American
What Can African Americans Do to Become More Marketable?
What can African Americans do to become more marketable in this economy? The average African Americans have by far been significantly unmarketable in comparison to their Average Caucasian counterparts. However, it should be mentioned that there are some African Americans who are also very marketable in our society. These few successful and marketable African Americans […]
Discrimination of African Americans in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander, is a book about the discrimination of African Americans in today’s society. One of Alexander’s main points is the War on Drugs and how young African American males are targeted and arrested due to racial profiling. Racial profiling, discrimination, and segregation […]
Ralph Ellison was an African American
Ralph Ellison was an African American writer and literary critic who was most recognized for the book “Invisible Man” in 1952, which is written in an adaptation of the Afro-American folk and cultural tradition. In her paper “Ritual and Rationalization: Black Folklore in the Works of Ralph Ellison” Susan Blake posited that “the predominant theme […]
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature New York
Booker T. Washington, during the 59 years of his life, rose up from being a slave until the age of nine, to forming a school for African Americans and the education of thousands of African Americans in the pursuit of self sufficiency. Washington has also been deemed as the most famous African American orator and […]
African Americans Face Discrimination
African Americans, especially women have been discriminated against for decades. For many years even after receiving legal rights things like segregation held African Americans back. In Margot Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures she highlights the true struggle of Black women in the times around WWII. Shetterly make the point that Black women contributed greatly to the […]
Caucasians and African Americans
Without Reservation is a history of how the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, composed mostly of Caucasians and African Americans who exaggerated or fabricated their Native American ancestry, rose to power in the 1980s and 1990s. In addition, it exposes how they were corrupted by money, power, and influence, creating and essentially looting the world’s largest casino-resort […]
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