Essays on Black Body

According to Emmet Price, dancing, in the early years of Hip Hop, was the “‘essence of early Hip Hop culture’” (qtd in Gorney 1). However, over the years, dancing in the Hip Hop culture gradually lost its significance as it became “cultural fad” and was replaced with a “take away product of hip hop,” which is the CD (Gorney 2). In recent years, hip hop dance has enjoyed a “huge resurgence” (Gorney 2). This resurgence of cultural expression has manifested itself in multiple “forms” (Gorney 2). However, it is this form of cultural expression is in danger of being “ ...

Maryse Conde’s ‘The Tropical Breeze Hotel’ is a pre-colonial play that focuses on the issue of the black body and struggle for power and identity. The Black Body is an issue that has a long history from the pre-colonial period and some authors have addressed the issue using dramatic writing. In the play, Conde unleashes a power struggle between the two characters, Emma, and Ishmael, which reveals a gender-based struggle or grasp for an identity. The author uses the two characters who constantly appear to switch roles as a way of balancing each other’s character. The play ...

The book “Killing the Black Body” is a brilliant piece of work done by Dorothy Roberts. The author in her book covers illegal encroachment on reproduction of black American-African women. Dorothy in her book step by step described use of slave women by their masters, eugenics policies which do not allow black women to give birth and increase black population. The author mentioned that these acts of controlling birth of black children were in favour of white people. Author further raises her concerns about women freedom and right to have or abort children. Dorothy raises this issue in large social ...