Annotated Bibliography: The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

The authors tone of writing could at first be described as easygoing and unconcerned. He is aware of the obvious issue of racism and discrimination against African Americans, but feels as if it doesn't directly apply to him. As he grows up the style of the writing becomes even more laid back to fit Malcolm's nonchalant personality. The author commonly uses the slang used in the 1940’s. The Author makes a point of stating all the terms Malcolm used to be

Thesis statement: The two great leaders in the black community debating about the issues that face the Negro race and Du Bois gave a compelling argument by using pathos, logos and ethos to create an essay that will appear to all readers. Outline: This essay will showcase the contradicting philosophies between W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Also, paying close attention to the different types of leadership between the two historic leaders in the black community. Both W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington contributed to and helped shape the future of African Americans.

I feel that he wish he had another history to tell his son; to embrace some kind of hope in his son's future; to tell him that being black does not put his life in risk from being taken away. Coates knows that when his son soon or later will eventually start wondering about why he is being treated unfairly or different. He will begin to see the police brutality among his racial group; how many blacks of different ages get killed by the police just because they

For over 100 years, racism has been a fundamental issue in global politics and culture. Du Bois in his introduction to The Soul of Black Folk says that the challenge experience in the twenty first century is the problem of color line. Although in his childhood schooling he did not experience much direct color discrimination, he learnt from the visible social division within his community when he discovered the hindrances, which the African Americans experienced. The perspective of Roman Catholic teachings and thoughts is the persistent advantage for white Americans in relation to pervasive and persistent disadvantage for people of black color in every aspect of life health, wealth, income, education, housing and criminal justice system. Du Bois’ prediction regarding the persistence of racial injustice is very firm due to its historical rootedness.

Walker speaks with distinctive honesty and passion about the cruelty of slavery. An Christian himself, he signals out white Christians for their double standards in supporting slavery, and society that treated most people of African origin as non-human possessions to be bought, sold or disposed of at will. He debates that, compared with slavery at other times and in other places, slavery in the United States is the most awful in history. Walker begs Black

Though he is criticized by some and his family is taxed by the situation, his decision to defend Tom was the wise thing to do. Yes, his family was mentally and physically changed by the incident, but he also changed Maycomb’s outlook on racism and destroyed the reputation of disgusting people. Sometimes casualties must be sustained to change something. Racism was a larger problem and drawbacks on his family were too little. “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”

In the autobiography “Black Boy” by Richard Wright, Richard learns that racism is prevalent not only in his Southern community, and he now becomes “unsure of the entire world” when he realizes he “had been unwittingly an agent for pro-Ku Klux Klan literature” by delivering a Klan newspaper. He is now aware of the fact that even though “Negroes were fleeing by the thousands” to Chicago and the rest of the North, life there was no better and African Americans were not treated as equals to whites. This incident is meaningful both in the context of his own life story and in the context of broader African American culture as well. At the most basic level, it reveals Richard’s naïveté in his belief that racism could never flourish in the North. When

John Howard Griffin dives, head first into the subjects of prejudice, diversity, and racism; in his novel Black Like Me. During his transformation from a white man to a black man, he see’s the injustices thrown upon African Americans. Not because of the way they act, but because of the way they look. The novel Black Like Me brings about a realization of the hypocrisy of White Americans and opens the eyes to the readers, whether they want to accept it as truth or not.

This quote shows the touching and emotional part of how the Negroes at this time is not living the life they were promised about 100 years later. Martin Luther King pulls with your heart strings to show you the emotional part of how the racism is affecting people therefore makes his speech powerful in the audience’s eyes and if it is powerful enough, which it is, the speech will have an effect on the audience’s perspective. Writers who

Essay The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a story about a young boy who is trying to find who he is during the civil war. In this novel by Mark Twain it speaks about this young boy, named Huck, and how his original morals are beginning to change while he helps free his friend Jim, who is a slave. Though People have argued that this book uses many racial slurs that demoralize the African American race. Though there is solid reasoning why those are not Mark Twain's true intentions.

Benjamin Banneker is a very passionate man when it comes to racial issues. In fact, he, himself was the son of a slave, which would indicate that he was a man who has experienced racial complications. Banneker (once educated), decided to become an advocate for racial freedom and equality. Subsequently Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson in hopes of persuading him to rethink the government’s position on slavery. In the letter Banneker uses allusions, repetition, and religious diction in his writing in hopes to evoke a change in the hypocrisy the colonists’ government has proven to be.

In support of this argument, the author presents E.D. Nixon, one of the few leaders initially involved in the Montgomery bus boycott. Nixon admonished that Black men must decide if they were “going to be fearless men” (Estes, 2005, p. 7). This challenge to the masculinity of African American men may have proved effective in enlisting male participation; permitting Black men to envision themselves in the role of protector (Estes, 2005). Early scholarship of the civil rights movement would portray male participants as orchestrators of collective action. As Rosa Parks effectually represented the virtue of Black women, historians would present similar figures to represent Black males in order the image of Black men as leaders and producers of social change (Estes, 2005).

Towards the end of the Civil Rights Movement, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual was published in 1967. Speaking to the audience of creative Black intellectuals who were the voices and advocates of the African American community, he charged the readers with four central task of becoming conscious of the various black advancement movements and their purpose, analyzing the pendulum between intergrationalist and separatist, and identifying the political, economic, and cultural requirements for black advancement in order to mend them into a single politics of progressive black culture, and combining all the task to recognizing the uniqueness of the American condition. Cruse bids for a “cultural revolution by a critical assault on the methods and ideology “cultural revolution by a critical assault on the methods and ideology of the old-guard Negro intellectual elite. The failures and ideological shortcomings of this group have meant that no new directions, or insights have been imparted to

"Ruler asked blacks to win their legitimate place in the public eye by increasing sense of pride, high good models, diligent work and initiative. He additionally asked blacks to do this in a peaceful matter," The distinction is in Malcolm X and Martin Luther King 's experiences impacted their later perspectives. As a dark youth, Malcolm X was insubordinate and furious. He faulted the poor social conditions that blacks lived in on the whites. "His past ghetto life set him up to dismiss peacefulness and coordination and to acknowledge a solid separatist theory as the reason for dark survival," He even accepted at one time that whites were operators of the villain.

“Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples Stereotyping can have serious affects on those afflicted. Staples writes about how a move away from his hometown changed his view of himself in seeing how others viewed him. He wants people, white people and women in particular, to stop presuming the worst in black men.