African Americans were among the people who were enslaved at the time in the 18th century. Most of the slaves were located in the south. There are three main things that helped the slaves to overcome these troubles of slavery, by no means did they make up for the torture they were put through; how...

Racism Racism has existed in many facets of life, such as, how the media portrayes African Americans negatively, whether it's on television or through newspapers and magazines. The aspects presented by Zora Neal Hurston in her novel I Love Myself When I Am Laughing and Then Again When I Am ...

Tailgates as a Cultural Contact Zone "Arts of the Contact Zone" by Mary Louise Pratt is an article that talks about how critical and history-making it is when different cultures meet for the first time. She describes this moment with her coined phrase, the "contact zone". She gives the perfect exa...

Black & White: I am the Gray Area Born Ricardo D' Amico Chamberlan in Columbus, Ohio, I was the baby of a black man whose only crime was marrying a white woman. My mom, a Bay area native, grew up in Castro Valley while my dad was born and raised in South Central, Los Angeles. Somehow fait...

How Do You Like Them Apples? A Critical Analysis of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman Composed during the writer's so-called Transitional Period, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka's Dutchman is a work that has confounded audiences with its political allusion to the biblical story of Adam and Eve, sin...