Abstract In the past African American people come to America as slave and their descendant never can be separated from the old stereotype. The discrimination that faced by the black people encourage their courage to fight again the situation, they use literature to express their...
White privilege, a concept used by Tim Wise, an anti-racist writer, and educator, establishes that the whites enjoy more economic and social benefits as compared to people of color. Tim Wise has various videos, which are an attempt to understand the origin of white privilege,...
Introduction Have you ever had a goal, a goal you couldn't overcome or acheive ? Well African Americans had a goal of equality. They wanted to achieve this equality because of unfair treatment. African Americans somewhat achieved equality by many things. America was somewhat a...
“For many Americans, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals strangely dressed “tribesmen,” and impenetrable jungles. Although the occasional newspaper headline mentions authoritarian rule, corruption, genocide, devastating illness, or civil war in Africa, the collective American consciousness still carries strong...
Although some may argue that economic power is the key to liberation, according to W.E.B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, one must recognize that there are other factors such as racial prejudice that doesn’t allow economic growth to even be attempted. Economic growth...
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In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois depicted the presence of a Veil that separated the different races and presented the notion of “double consciousness.” He argued that African Americans have a dual identity rooted in their awareness of how white Americans see...
Post-colonial literature is not only interested in issues regarding power and dominance but also freedom and empowerment (Critical Anthology,2015), Angelou manages to comment on these issues through her expressive poetry, which is manipulated to support cultural difference and diversity (P.Barry 2002). Angelou’s poetry gives us...
The word ‘struggle’ has many different meanings and connotations to different groups of people. The Oxford Dictionary defines it as “strive to achieve or attain something in the face of difficulty or resistance”. Perhaps no other ethnic group in the world has faced more difficulty...
Angela Davis’s life was politicised the moment she was born. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1940s, in an area dubbed “Dynamite Hill” due to the many African American homes that the Ku Klux Khan had bombed and terrorised, meant she was introduced to...