Mr. T-By Terrance Hayes Analysis

This well educated man was getting dirty looks and halsted for using standard everyday services. As a person in today’s society most would hope that this doesn’t happen as often on the contrary it happens everyday. Many people are still more likely to trust white people over black people even with the same credentials as each other. Especially with jobs in today’s society, how many african american bankers does one see on a regular basis usually one to none because even today entire companies are racially profiling. Many Americans have come to the conclusion that the black people movement ended when they obtained voting rights, but no matter what rights are given to people of different races they will 6 times out of 10 feel attacked or racially profiled at least once a day.

This clearly demonstrates the Politics and Power motif because it shows how Brutus is so anxious to gain power that he jumps up as soon as he is wanted by the people. He is losing all of his honorable traits, including the ones he earned in his political position as senator, by going against his fellow senator, Caesar. This affects the work as a whole because of the themes of the play, ambition, and conflict, have a strong impact on what Shakespeare is ultimately trying to express between the main characters. Ambition has an effect on the plot because Caesar is a very ambitious man. This alone and the numerous letters Brutus has been receiving leads him to think that he is no good for Rome, Caesar’s ambition worries Brutus.

The friend, Todd Clifton, is selling Sambo dolls on the side of the road, a highly racist and derogatory doll that perpetuates the stereotype of blacks as non-human performers for other’s entertainment. Clifton, in contrast, was a handsome, intelligent, and politically active member of the Brotherhood who is shown to want to help Harlem and push for black and white equality. The Invisible Man is both shaken by Clifton's blatant betrayal of his own race and saddened, yet again, by the theme of black repression by those who claim to try and help. However, later he chooses to forgive Clifton at his funeral, thinking to himself “Yes, the dolls were obscene and his act a betrayal. But he was only a salesman not an inventor, and it was necessary that we make it known that the meaning of his death was greater than the incident or the object that caused it” (448).

Since the shows cancellation in 1978, The Black and White Minstrel Show has come to be seen more widely as a Great British humiliation, despite it’s huge popularity and the time. “While blackface in the literal sense has played only a minor role in entertainment in recent decades, various writers see it as epitomising an appropriation and imitation of black culture that continues today.” (Wikipedia) “To this day, whites admire, envy and seek to emulate such supposed innate qualities of blackness as inherent musicality, natural athleticism, the composure known as ‘cool’ and superior sexual endowment” (Strausbaugh, J. ‘Black Like You’,

The classic American novel “To kill a Mockingbird” relates to the era of the Great Depression which as we know was an era in which racism toward black men was at its peak, due to that white supremacy was very noticeable. We can observe how some of the character of this best seller are very racist, during the story in causal events that black and white men should have equal opportunity to win the colored person has no chance at all, there were places just for white or black people and the areas for white men were impeccable and had more resources that the black venues could ever imagine, and lastly the lack of education toward colored people was very pronounced. Education, a fundamental human right according to UNESCO was taken away of black men, that is why the majority of the colored man were not lawyers nor doctors. Everyone should have the right to know how to write and read, the majority of black men died without knowing. The small percentage of people that knew how to read and write learned because someone who was white had taught them, it had nothing to do with school.“ Jem said it looked like they could save the collection money for a year and get some hymn books.

The short story “Battle Royal” was written by Ralph Ellison, set during the 1950’s racism is very noticeable and you will be stunned by how the blacks are treated. Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma in 1914 and later attended Tuskegee Institute in Alabama where he studied music. In 1936 he moved to New York City and planned to work at a job in order to pay off college. Little did he know he would get the chance to work from the New York Federal Writers Program. He gained himself a reputation as a writer off of one book, “Invisible Man” and became successful.

The other side of the blade, "Zip Coon" was used to finish the job. The Zip Coon was used to defile the names of free black slaves in the north. A Zip Coon was apparently a fortunate northern African American who would "act white." The coon exaggeration was one of the top characters amongst minstrel actors. In these Minstrel shows, "audiences laughed at the slow-talking fool who avoided work and all adult responsibilities"(The Coon Caricature).

At the start of the book, Ben is a racist man. When he was doing various tests to see if he was fit to sign up for The Running Man, he was asked to do some word association. When the doctor said”’Doctor.’ ‘Nigger,’ Richards responded”(34). When Killian was interviewing Richards, he was looking over his record, and states “‘you held racial responses outlawed by the Racial Act of 2004’”(50). The thing is, Richards grows as a character when he meets Bradley, a black man who really helps him out.

The 1920’s was a time of excess and people were looking for new things to indulge in. For all his success a poet Hughes was now getting resistance not so much from the white community as he was from his fellow African American artists. These artists, and really any educated black person who had gained a sliver of respect among the white population, hated lower class uneducated black men as much as James Hughes did. Langston Hughes wrote a lot about the everyday struggle of an average African American, and this is why the rest of the educated African American community had disdain for his art. This did not, however, stop his ascension to a top figure of the Harlem renaissance in the 1920’s, as his poems were very popular among much of the American population.

Therefore, he succeeded in convincing Mr. Shelby to sell his honest loyal servants. Besides, Mr. Haley extremely discriminated against African slaves. During his talk with Mr. Shelby, he used the word “niggers” to describe Tom and Harry which could demonstrate his bias in race. Whereas male characters were described as kind, helpful, religious, and moral. Emily

His reputation was hurt, but it also gained Grant heroism. It was very important for Grant to conquer as may states as he could.The union victory also gave Tennessee to the north which held a firm grip on it.It was a first major battle for the civil war and it had a lot of casualties on both sides that it showed the war wasn 't going to be fast nor easy. In the battle a great general was killed Albert Sidney Johnston it lessened southern morale Grant was heard to be drunk on the first day of battle which was April 6 and it caused him to gain others trust again which took him some time which he could have used to make more progress.It also gave Grant the thought the war wasn 't going to be easy and that the south was not going to give up easily. The casualties that showed that they weren 't going to give up was unbelievable. An estimated number of 23,000 casualties on both sides happened.

According to David Goldberg 's “All Lives Matter” Disregards Race-Based Inequality," blacks in the United States aren’t supposed to completely belong. They are denied decent employment and education, being animalized, criminalized and killed daily. Goldberg makes a crucial point saying, “Black people have represented the country in the highest of ways while being maligned in the most malicious of ways.” He couldn’t be more right. Blacks are athletic, vocally talented, even superior enough to be president of the United States. Why do we, as whites, feel it is even okay to dehumanize or degrade blacks because of their skin color.

The Little Rock Nine endured, death threats, mental and physical beatings, fear, anger, and so much more just to prove that blacks are equal to whites and that they should be treated equally. In the end, they persevered and made a name not just for themselves, but for the black community. In “Remember the Titans”, the team surpassed racial boundaries to come together and win as a team. The black players could have easily quit because it was hard and they didn’t want to deal with the white players,

Atticus alludes the jury to two of the most famous men in the era. When Atticus is saying this to the jury and everyone else he is saying that not everyone will play the role that they are given. Just because Tom Robinson is African-American doesn’t mean that he is bad and will do unlawful things. Another example of allusion is when Atticus is asking Mayella about what Tom Robinson did to her. He says, “It 's not an easy question Miss Mayella, so I 'll try again.

Shelley bought a house but it was against the law to sell property to black people. The importance to this case is that it changed the law for black people. The case had won , because it over didn 't go good with the amendment. The case was a big deal because at the end of it black people got more rights because it didn 't over rule the 14th amendment. (Shelley vs. Kraemer) The modifications made were revolutionary and riled up a lot of white American citizens.