Blackness

most frequently performed and written about-resulting from strong and often opposite emotions. Critics have focused on his blackness or, recently, his condition as a Moor , and the particular associations of these categories in his society are important to the play. Yet it shows how fluid the outsider position in Shakespeare can be that Othello is not certain whether his blackness is more important than his age or his inexperience in high Venetian society. The complexity…

against lower social economic blacks in America, the poor class, has led me to pose this question: Does social class nullify blackness in America? In this paper I will address this question by defining Ghettocracy and Afristocracy, discussing how blackness is defined in the United States and whether these two social classes within the African American race nullifies blackness in America. Cosby’s attack on poor black Americans at a public event aired the dirty laundry within the African American…

definition of postmodern blackness, Daniel José Older’s Shadowshaper is a postmodern black cultural artifact. The novel brings race, gender, class, and sexuality into the discussion of identity politics. With its diverse cast of characters, it provides a number of black identities and different cultural experiences, challenging the white supremacy’s depiction of blackness. Shadowshaper shows both how far we have come with cultural production of authentic postmodern blackness and how there is…

their lives. In one part of the skit, one of the men say, “I got like ten bitches man...my dog walking business is bubbling!” This scene is meant to force the audience to make negative assumptions on what the man means by ‘bitches’ because of his blackness. By stereotyping the black man in a bad neighborhood, white people will automatically make the connection that anything he is talking about must be unpleasant or pestiferous in some way. However, the great part about this skit is that it flips…

the North. In the story, Chesnutt uses Mr. Ryder to project his concerns for the preservation of Blackness in the wake of assimilation. Mr. Ryder’s assimilation into the dominant culture means an abandonment of his blackness and a subsequent loss of identity, pride, and morality. In “The Wife of His Youth,” Chesnutt reveals his discontent for assimilation because it gives way to the abjection of blackness. In “The Wife of His Youth,” Chesnutt uses metamorphosis to express his sentiments on…

Sociology John Jackson uses symbolic interactionalism to discuss the difference in Black America and argues how the social class within Harlem shows how people act towards each other based on the meaning of blackness. He uses the borough Harlem to reflect on more than just the difficulties within a black neighborhood but the variety of social networks and class stratifications to explore how African Americans interpret and perform different class identities in their everyday behavior.…

Suhrawardī and Jāmī on Wujūd Shahāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Suhrawardī (d. 1191) in his Philosophy of Illumination proposes this radical view that wujūd is merely a being of reason (iʿtibār aqliyya) which does not exist (laysa bi-mawjūdin) in the extra-mental, concrete world. This view, however, was rejected by the fifteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi master in the Akbarian tradition, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī (d. 1492) of Herat in his Treatise on Existence. In this short essay, I begin by trying to…

to grow anger and hate within themselves. Anger and hatred are not enough to fight racism because they are secondary emotions driven by shame and fear that was brought onto them by society! Claudia and her sister Frieda were not ashamed of their blackness and resist the temptation to fall for the standards of white…

that a huge part of the author’s motivation for writing the book was due to the silencing of black girls contributions to black music. Furthermore, musical analysis and historical research were needed in order to detail the continuity of musical blackness and the way that black musical structure and creation are embodied and gendered across locales that are synergistic in the formation of black music by the fragmented African diaspora. These methods proved to be valuable due to the author…

To attempt to live like Atticus Finch is quixotic, much like expecting a new social construct within the United States. A professor of Political Science and African American studies, Dr Melvin Rogers, initially seems like he will appreciate modern black introspection and then admire how its epistolary form contributes to contemporary literature. But he does not move in that direction. I disagree with Rogers’s assessment of Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates, specifically his view,…