Essay On African Americans

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Marlon Riggs uses gumbo as a recurring metaphor or theme in his film to describe blackness. He had borrowed this phrase from his grandmother and uses it as a motif representation of the African Americans. This is applicable in both Cornel West and Stuart Hall in that both of them offer a specific analysis in the suggestion of the Black with violence and fear. These theories of both the Black people and the dominant white culture make it hard for the African race to access and hold on to their own civilization. The issue of patriarchy estranges the African Americans from themselves.2)
The film ‘Black Is Black Ain't’ depicts a powerful Marlon Riggs critique involving, patriarchy, homophobia, sexism, colorism and national patriotism in the Black family, church and other Black institutions. He shows this via showing as a social system in which the male is the primary expert figure dominant in social society and the dominant roles of radical sections hence highlighting him as a pro-feminism man.
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The first is the displacement of European models of high culture. The additional requirement distresses the nature of the retro of national globalization in development now. Surely, blacks are as vaguely located in relative to post modernism as they were in relative to higher development. Thirdly, developments captivation with difference--sexual variance, and ethnic difference. The New Cultural Politics of Difference offers an explanation for this moment as the genealogy of the current day that I find intensely brief and perceptive.
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Essentialism is both incorporated and challenged inside sexually relegated crowds and legislation. Secure societies that pursue radical restructuring and the extension of human privileges to all groups will tend to rely on cultural ideas of uniqueness. The foundation is that by claiming an individuality politics, in the form of separate group association, a united and unified front can be recognized in order to build groups, challenge sidelining, fight oppression and produce change.5)
A critical organic catalyst in this context means or depicts the person in the society responsible for the representation of a community who has responsibilities of leadership and speeds up the operation process in a cultural set up. An example of one from a popular culture with such embodied characteristics is Martin Luther King who fought for racism and ending of slavery in the USA.
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The study of popular culture is important in that it gives one a chance to learn new things about a different culture. One gets to identify the different traditions and beliefs, different laws and even the different products related with the popular culture.7)
Definition of Blackness according to the history of the African Americans depicts a particular race of dark skinned folk who live in the USA, at least that is how it was defined a few years ago. I would define it as a form of racial stratification that separates the different races of the African Americans and the whites.8) Self-naming and self-definition is important in that it helps in the identification of people in the society and giving them the ability to be different from other people to avoid confusion and mistaken identity of persons.9) Martin Luther King’s legacy sets the pace intended for the achievement in a global civilization. This is mainly among the different races in the USA mainly between the African Americans, the natives and the White folk.10)
This class helped me learn about the origin of the alterations amid the dissimilar societies and the cultures within the different communities in the world. It educated me on the cultural practices and the traditions that existed in the previous century.