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Hace 3 días · African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [1] The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large-scale ...
Hace 2 días · The most celebrated Black explorer of the Americas was Estéban, who traveled through the Southwest in the 1530s. The uninterrupted history of Blacks in the United States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the English colony of Virginia.
Hace 3 días · Tracing the evolution of the trope of the New Negro from 1895 to 1925 gives teachers the opportunity to do at least two important things: first, to introduce students to the long tradition of African American efforts to recast the black image, and second, to explore the modulated political tenor of the Harlem Renaissance.
Hace 5 días · Blackface is the practice of performers, typically non- black performers, using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment. In the United States, the practice became a popular entertainment during the 19th century into the 20th.
Hace 3 días · As the first book to focus on Blackness and film adaptation, Intersecting Aesthetics delivers a pleasing and effective range of case studies over the course of the twentieth century, from African American writers whose work was adapted into independent films from the 1920s on to Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï, released in 2001.
Hace 5 días · Definition and Background. In the past couple of decades, the word pigmentocracy has come into common usage to refer to the distinctions that people of African descent in America make in their various skin tones, which range from the darkest shades of black to paleness that approximates whiteness.
Hace 5 días · This essay is a meditation on the ontological contours of Blackness and being. The essay examines, in large part, Calvin Warren’s Ontological Terror. The concept broaches the topics of the humanity inherent in Heidegger’s Dasein and its ontological opposition towards Black being as such. When referring to Black being, I refer to ...
