Film critics, industry flaks, and even some black entertainers have tumbled over themselves shouting the praises of Hollywood for picking three blacks for its top awards. They repeatedly toss around the words \"history-making\" to describe the feat. It isn\'t. In 1973, Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield...

Charcoal Faced White Men To a few nineteenth-century Americans, brass bands and modest singing women were "the only true American drama" (Blacking Up, Pg 1). Most people simply enjoyed the "nigger minstrel." shows that featured white men dressed in ragged clothes, black pain...

The play was introduced by a woman in brown, who was very informative in letting everyone know what the name of the play was. The play was titled "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf", and it was presented in the El Camino Auditorium on November 5, 200...

Misrepresentations of African Americans in the Movies It seems that the entertainment industry has helped to shape the way that African Americans are viewed by modern day America. As a white male who has little or no experience within an actual black family unit, I am not sure exactly how accura...

The story Florence, by Alice Childress reflects the love of a mother for her child and also helps us to understand that the negative feelings about something someone else does, may not be for us to understand. Mama, a character in this late forties play was the leading character. Mam...

The Buck is Back .......and Baaaddderrr Than Ever! Scene 1: Outside a ticket box office in a suburban movie theater in 1967. About a dozen white couples patiently wait in line to purchase tickets to the "progressive" new film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner by Stanley Kramer. Cam...

The United States of America is the most diverse place in all of the world. We are just a melting pot of our own. Although we are very diverse, not everyone likes ethnicity. From the 1800's until now prejudges have been all around. It all began with the African Americans. Tuskgee Airmen is a film ...

Racism on Television Everyone knows that September 11, 2001 was a horrible day in America. After those attacks we were a distort country, looking for answers. Did TV coverage of the events at hand help with our coping or did they only feed the flames of hatred against people with Arabic decent. N...

What exactly was the Harlem Renaissance? If you analyze the word, Harlem was a black community of New York City, and a Renaissance is a rebirth. The Harlem Renaissance was the outstanding eruption and rebirth of creativity by African Americans in many different fields of art. Whether it be black ...

In the movie Boys in the Hood, it most definitely reinforces black sterotype for the most part there are other sterotypes done in the movie. How??, by portraying blacks as always being low life trash and doing nothing to help benefit themselves. This is the typical American sterotype bout inner ci...

"A Lesson Before Dying" Story that tells life like it was. The movie is directed by Joseph Sargent and based on a book by Ernest J. Gaines about a man awaiting his execution in 1948 Louisiana. It's a story about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. An innocent man ...

Since the foundation of television broadcasting, blacks in America were uncommonly displayed on television. Except for a small number of black characters on white programs, there was no programming with a predominant black family. Post the 1960's whites began to realize the obvious need for bla...

America is such an immense and diverse nation that it is difficult to describe the unique qualities in a few words. The best way to depict America is by using a metaphor. In many ways America is much like a lawyer, they both can be characterized by three traits: hardworking, greedy, and hypocritical...

Bamboozled The days of blackface minstrel troupes may seem like ancient history to most Americans, but Spike Lee wants to refresh our memory. Spike Lee is onto something when he looks to the days of blackface minstrel troupes to help us understand race in today's America. With Bamboozled, Hollywoo...

There is no denying the fact that the civil rights movement has affected everyone's life in some way or another. If it was Rosa Parks standing up for herself and not moving to the back of the bus or Martian Luther King taking a speech and moving an entire nation. These acts of non-violence c...

Medgar Evers Paper Merlyie Evers' fight and sacrifice for a cause was extremely different than that of her husband's. Merlyie's time period for this action was 25 years In the making, quite distinct than that of her husband. She also did not sacrifice that much except for time in ...

Blind Nation The color of our skin automatically makes us a suspect in today's stereotypical world. "Despite the civil rights victories of 30 years ago, official skin color prejudice is still reflected throughout the Criminal Justice System." (Racial profiling, A.C.L.U) Many Afri...

Metaphors that Shape the Theme of Cultural Negotiation The essay "How it feels to be colored me" composed by Zora Neale Hurston introduces metaphors which construct the theme of cultural negotiation. Within the essay the author describes her personal conflict, illustrated by the use of ...

It seems as though the issue of race is unavoidable, regardless of the context in which we are speaking. It is a shame that the idea of race play a role in any aspect of life. For someone of color to be disregarded, or overlooked, when being considered for an education or employment is unacceptabl...

Racism in Othello Many people, throughout time, have seen or read the play Othello, and every one of them has their own critique on the play. But as Eliot says," anyone as great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right" and he follows with," [I] f we can never be r...

The 1950s was the time that Civil Rights issues were coming to a head. African Americans were making bold steps forward, becoming heard and becoming seen. Unfortunately, many Whites resisted these steps forward, refusing to hear and recognize these \"invisible people.\" People\'s ignorance closed ...

African Americans & stereotyping Nowadays lots of races are stereotyped, but African Americans are one of the most frequent racial groups stereotyped against. Negative stereotypes of African Americans have been around ever since slavery. The stereotypes served a strong purpose. The stereotypes ju...

Spike LeeThe man we know as "Spike" was born Shelton Jackson Lee onMarch 20, 1957 in Atlanta ,Georgia. The first of five children, hegot the nickname Spike from his mother for being "a tough baby". Spike's tendency to be difficult is one that goes right back to thecrib. The infant Spike, much like...

Since arriving on the shores of the United States, the experience of the African American individual has been a turbulent, convoluted struggle for full rights as citizens. Through the use of many strategies, blacks in the United States have reached parity with whites in terms of social and political...

Unforgiven The 1992 best picture of the year, Unforgiven, is a tribute to the ever-popular western, it shows aspects of racism, feminism, ageism, and revenge, areas all coinciding with the society in 1992. Unforgiven was a highly acclaimed movie. It was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won 4...