Essays on Political Blackness

According to Thelma Golden, “There is no question that representation is central to power. The real struggle is over the power to control images.” Women and African Americans as two groups that suffer issues of discrimination and injustice, also struggle with the dilemma in the…

Afrocentrism has gained a wide spread throughout African-American academia and pop culture. It claims that the cluster of ideas, beliefs, and tenets of the philosophy provide a corrective to Eurocentric histories of Africa, which diminish and neglect the achievements of the continent before the colonial…

Black people have always been active in asserting their being or humanity in the face of oppression. Whether it be art or rebellion, black people always seek to express and assert their conceptions of blackness within society. This expression has also taken form in mindsets…

In The Red Record written by Ida. B. Wells-Barnett, she states that a common ideology amongst Americans during the 1800s was it was “a white man’s government” (Wells-Barnett 11). This method of thinking, while making heavy progress in the last 100 years or so, is…