Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Chapter Summary

The racial disparity can be accounted for through the mass incarceration of black offenders in terms of sentencing with mention of a racial caste in place, not allowing those of color to move from their position. As such, mass incarceration has led to prisons being filled with an overpopulation of those who are black than any other race. Interesting enough, it has been proven through surveys that those who are white are more likely to engage in drug crime rather than those who are black. I found this to be an interesting point to discuss as it raises the question as to just why are more people of color incarcerated at a growing rate than

Themes The themes presented of this book by Alice Goffman logically transform the entire lives through stabilization. The pathology as the central experience in black life has been analyzed critically whereby the Black American experienced racism and segregation. In some instances, opinions were based on stereotypes as well as catchphrases in order to deliberate the social policy of a community. Themes in this book formulated as well examined the lives of people in some places referred as ghettos since the interaction between the police and the young black was a problem. Through the themes of the book, it is evident that understanding the reality and the sense of significant aspects of life in contemporary America it is essential for the Black American to operate in within a liberal democracy.

Hard Rock is just one of many example of the effects mass incarceration has on African Americans. This concept is just a modern day movement to reform America’s problem, Black Americans. Looking back at the Poem, I recognized the similarities between Hard Rock and mass

Morrison is among the pioneer of those contemporary black writers who have redefined African- American writings in more ways than one. This assignment will focus on the aspects of gender bias and double consciousness in The Bluest Eye. The Bluest Eye works at different layers of the lives of black people. At one level it accounts for the racial discrimination faced by Afro-Americans throughout their life time. At another level, it is a clear narration of how internalized concepts of beauty works in the minds of blacks and they themselves become their oppressors.

Du Bois uses many different ways to target the reader. His main purpose in “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, is to educate mistreated Africans American about demanding equality and rights that were promised to them around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation. Du Bois uses different types of literary devices (mostly personifications) and firsthand accounts stories about injustice to make his point to the reader. For example, Du Bois states, “Will America be poorer if she replaces her brutal dyspeptic blundering with light-hearted but determined Negro humility?” (Du Bois 297). Du Bois is making it seem like America is a person that mistreats African Americans.

David Walker style of addresses the audience of African Americans was intense and with frankness about the brutality of slavery. In Walker’s appeal, there were several arguments approaches to ending slavery. These methods that he recommends to African American is to, rebel against their slave owners, give a copy of Thomas Jefferson writing from the Notes of Virginia to each slave owner’s children, and be responsible for taking an active role in their freedom. Also, Walter used the Declaration of Independence to present equality of all me. First, I believe that Walker strategies were effective with the impact of inductive reasoning by letting the world know of the condition of slavery, deductive reasoning though confronting the distorted information

Internationalism is vital to black radical politics because it brings the domestic issues faced by African Americans in the United States into a larger global context. The Communist Party came to understand that exploited African Americans constituted what could be considered a nation within a nation. African Americans experienced much the same oppression in the United States as nations experienced under capitalism and its extensions of imperialism and colonialism. The Black Panther Party utilized internationalism in staunchly bringing the issues faced by black people in the United States to international recognition. By revealing the Achilles heels of American democracy, international pressures can bring about the end of inequality.

These men used this powerful weapon to remind black women of their female and vulnerability. Black feminism issued as a theoretical and practical effort demonstrating that race, gender, and class are inseparable in the social worlds we inhabit. We need to understand the interconnections between the black and women’s

Chisholm describes the black women's role in American society as displaced and misunderstood. Chisholm utilizes cause and effect to describe the unfair perspectives others have on African American women in society. When Chisholm states “ Since time immemorial the black man’s emasculation resulted in the need of the black woman to assert herself in order to maintain some semblance of a family unit.” As a result of this historical circumstance, the “black woman has developed perseverance.” Chisholm creates the generalization that black women are known for taking care of their families, while the men fight the political and

But comparing that to of “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X of the mid-20th century where slavery ended but racism is still America’s greatest threat. Comparing and contrasting will show how these two African-Americans spoke their perspective of their struggles for themselves and others as well. Living in slavery