Challenge Post #2 In 2002, Ludacris released the single, “Move Bitch”, featuring rappers Mystikal and I-20. The chorus goes on to repeat the phrase, “Move bitch, get out the way, get out the way bitch, get out the way,” four times. The chorus, without any context, seems very offensive to women. However, Ludacris is not…
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The controlling, wrathful, and god-like, Mitch.
In Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, Mitch is compared to divine powers that highlight his control over Sassafrass. Gods are above humans , they are at the top of the hierarchy. When Sassafras was explaining Mitch’s appearance she states, “his presence was that of one of those Olmec gods. Mitch thought of himself as…
black no more group check in annotations (Emily Wigham, Nic Bounanduci, Molle Allred, Zach Tidd and Hunter Tidd)
Group Members: Emily Wigham, Nic Bounanduci, Molle Allred, Zach Tidd and Hunter Tidd Group Text: Black No More Selected Passages for Annotation: p.21, p.31 and p.150 Overarching Theme/Goal for Annotations: To investigate how Schuyler uses material/matter to show the reality of body alteration along racial lines. Directions: Using the examples on this first page as…
The Truth Leads to Beauty
In W.E.B Du bois’ “Criteria of Negro Art”, Truth is a term that is repeated by Du bois to emphasize how it is an important aspect of Beauty that Black artists need to demonstrate in their works. Dubois sates that for a Black artist to demonstrate beauty, there must be Truth, and, “… not for…
Revealing the Space Traders
Even though the sci-fi genre has many fantastical and otherworldly elements that might strike or fascinate us, they are able to highlight real problems of the treatment of marginalized groups such as black people. This is clearly shown in the short story, “Space Traders” by Derrick Bell. Aliens from another world are shown to arrive…
Transforming into a White Man to Infiltrate Hate
A movie that in some ways reminds me of the book, “Black No More” was the 2018 film, “Blackkklansman”, directed by Spike Lee. It was based on a memoir by Ron Stallworth and is set in the 1970s of Colorado Springs. It follows the first African-American detective in the city’s police department as he sets out…
The Backward Aspects of Education
In “Chapter VI. Of the Training of Black Men”, of W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, he discusses what the education system was like and how the freed black people were trained in professions in the years after the Emancipation. Du Bois demonstrates how slavery’s legacy affected the roles of black and white…
Bird’s Soaring, and the Leaves Swirling in the Wind
In the children’s book, “Henry’s Freedom Box” by Ellen Levine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Imagery and symbolism is used to emphasize the feelings and desires of Henry Brown when he was being sent to work for his ill master’s son. On pages 7 and 8, a white man has come to pick up Henry…
Beyoncé’s Message on Police Brutality
Houston Baker, described differences between mastery of form and deformation of mastery in, “Modernism And The Harlem Renaissance”. Mastery of form might be something that you are able to achieve and be the best at, you are the insider. Baker further states that, “the mastery of form conceals, disguises, floats like a trickster butterfly in…
Black Matter 