Essays about: "African-American history"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words African-American history.
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1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : 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
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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)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
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3. Putting Jazz on the Page : "The Weary Blues" and "Jazztet Muted" by Langston Hughes
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : 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
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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 lärandeAbstract : 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
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5. Circulating Emotions in James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man and in American Society
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : 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