The Evolution of Rap Music All one has to do is simply observe their surroundings to realize the huge impact of rap music on today\'s society. The way people dress, talk, and act have all been influenced by the cultural phenomenon known as rap music. Almost every aspect of American culture has b...

Manifestations of Afrocentricity and the Articulation of Chicanismo H1: The manifestation of Afrocentricity is positively related to the presence of rap music. While an important facet of afrocentricity is to challenge the racist system and look for ways to revolutionize the conditions of Af...

Don't Knock the Rap: A Response to Venise Berrry's "Redeeming the Rap Music Experience" Rap music has been getting a bad rap from parents, legislators, and other authority figures ever since it first hit the American pop music scene in the early 1980's. Adults ...

When I think of Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. and Tupac Shakur, at first I did not think that they had any thing in common until I began to look deeper into both of their background. Both men were icons in their respected time and era. Dr. King, who was an initiator of the 1960's civil rights mo...

MLK Jr., Today. In a letter from a Birmingham jail, dated April 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "We have waited fore more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights." He made great strides to achieving those rights for African Americans during his li...

Music has transformed drastically in recent years and has emerged as a form of counterculture. Specifically, hip hop music, has been identified as a counterculture that has inspired social change through its message. Although many consider hip-hop controversial, it has become a global phenomena in i...

What is Blackness? Blackness is Strength. How black families strengthen each other thought supporting one another. The strength to pull each one through these hard times. The way black people look out for their brother's and sister's. The strength to advance in learning and the struggl...

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 ...

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...

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...

We should look at the differences of the world and try to learn from them. All people have their good points and bad points. We live in a world that is not all white, all black, or not even all yellow. We live in a world where all races interact among themselves. The university in the United St...

Is Black English a Language? There are hundreds of different languages around the world today, one of them being Black English. According to the Encarta dictionary, language is the principal means used by human beings to communicate with one another. Language is primarily spoken, although it can ...

Since blacks have been in America we have been the victims of the most vile, and dehumanizing stereotypes and labels, the world has to offer. Education or miseducation of black children, internal and external conflict (factors) dealing with black people, systematic oppression and institutional iss...

"My niggas. Some niggas that you don't wanna try. My niggas. Some niggas that's really do or die. My niggas. Ain't no longer living a lie. My niggas is stong. My niggas is real." Does this artist use the word nigger in the same way that racists ha...

"My niggas. Some niggas that you don't wanna try. My niggas. Some niggas that's ready to do or die. My niggas. Who ain't living a lie. My niggas is strong. My niggas is real." By DMX Does this artist use the word nigger in the...

What would you do if the Constitution said you were just as good as everyone else but some people still acted as if you were something they had just scraped off their shoe? This sort of thing happens to millions of people on a regular basis. Americans of African, Asian, or Mexican descent are all su...

Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always somebody different.The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They made them feelworthless and they treated them like animals.Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call younames, or talk behind ...

Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always somebody different.The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They made them feel worthless and they treated them like animals.Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call you names, or talk behin...

Spike Lee: Blackness has Many MeaningsPresently in America a war is being fought. Forget about guns, planes, and bombs, the weapons from now on will be the newspapers, magazines, TV shows, radio, and FILM. The right has gotten BOLD, bolstered by their squashing of Ice-T's COP KILLER, any piece of...

Racism Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always somebody different.The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They made them feelworthless and they treated them like animals.Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call younames, or talk ...

The Black ImageThe NAACP recently complained about the lack of racially diverse shows on the major television networks, and the limited roles for African Americans on television. The movie Bamboozled is a social satire on TV's seemingly racist practices. It is also a social commentary on how media...

Spike Lee's representation of the severed relations between the racial groups that co-exist in the community of Bed Sty throws the question of "what is the right thing to do" and also "is there such thing as truth," right into our faces forcing us to grapple with them. With the presentation of oppos...