Essays about: "African-American history"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words African-American history.

  1. 1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Claudia Bern; [2023]
    Keywords : Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE

  3. 2. "Do you want to help them" Analyzing the representation of African Americans in Expressen's news reports of 53 youths from Chicago visiting Stockholm in 1966

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Keenan Allen; [2019]
    Keywords : Representation; African Americans; Swedes; Stereotype; Discourse;

    Abstract : This study is a qualitative content analysis, aiming to analyze the representation of African Americans in reports made by the Swedish newspaper Expressen, covering a journey with 53 youths from Chicago to Stockholm in 1966. This study has a critical approach to understanding how preferred meanings were reproduced in Expressen’s representation of the African American participants. READ MORE

  4. 3. Putting Jazz on the Page : "The Weary Blues" and "Jazztet Muted" by Langston Hughes

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Ralph Hertzberg McKnight; [2019]
    Keywords : Langston Hughes; “The Weary Blues”; “JAZZTET MUTED”; the blues; jazz; Harlem; be-bop; the “Jazz-Age”; African-American history; “jazz poetry”;

    Abstract : The goal of this essay is to look at the poems “The Weary Blues” and “JAZZTETMUTED” (hereafter to be referred to as “JAZZTET”) by Langston Hughes andexamine their relationships to both the blues and jazz structurally, lyrically, andthematically. I examine the relationship of blues and jazz to the African-Americancommunity of Harlem, New York in the 1920’s and the 1950’s when the poems wererespectively published. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Glow of a Panther : Tupac Amaru Shakur’s Poetry and the Politics of African-American Culture

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Lana Kareem; [2017]
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    Abstract : African-American oppression has a history of violence and torment. It is a topic that is still prominent in today’s society with pop culture being one of the mediums aiding in spreading its awareness. READ MORE

  6. 5. Circulating Emotions in James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man and in American Society

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Alexandra Cassel; [2017]
    Keywords : Ahmed; America; Baldwin; emotions; fear; Freud; psychoanalysis; racism; sexuality; stereotypes; uncanny;

    Abstract : This essay explores how James Baldwin’s short story Going to Meet the Man depicts racist attitudes toward African-Americans in American society. Further, this essay also shows how racism is linked to a circulation of emotions that unconsciously generates a xenophobic nation affecting even those who implicitly are regarded as genuine citizens of that community. READ MORE