The way that it was written was very clear to understand. Melton A. McLaurin is the narrator of this book. Melton’s hometown was Fayetteville, NC, which is where, Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South took place. Growing up during the segregation period influenced Melton’s entire life. He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of South Carolina in 1967, and later he became a professor and chair of the department of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Du Bois played a prominent part in the creation of the NAACP and became the association's director of research and editor of its magazine, The Crisis. Du Bois graduated from Fisk University, a black institution at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1888. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in
Marcus Garvey’s ideas of black nationalism and fighting oppression helped shape the identity of African Americans in the United States during the 1920’s. Marcus Garvey was born on August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. He began his career as a magazine editor by traveling and residing in Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, and London. He eventually began studying Law and Philosophy at Birkbeck College in London. While living in London, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), which was dedicated to black racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa.
He also became the director and CEO of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was also the national director and organizer of the Million Man March in 1995, as well as authored numerous books and publications,” which is exactly why I was so compelled to go listen to him speak (Exponent 1). Despite the fact that, in class we haven’t exactly touched on the criticism of hip hop without a gendered aspect per say, I thought it was a very interesting topic to examine as a person with an “outside” point of view. In this response, I am going to analyze the cultural relevance of hip-hop, to advocating
He clearly lays out for the reader the events that occurred and the people involved. He does his best to describe the differences and similarities between the various organizations such as the SCLC, CORE, and SNCC. While also broaching the subject that these organizations often suffered by not working together. Sitkoff writes at length, rightfully so, on the pivotal role of Martin Luther King Jr. and the dream of living in a world without racism. Describing ways in which he motivated a nation to rise up peacefully and without violence when possible.
He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment. Thus, he concluded that the new society was uniquely America. He has a very valid argument, but I believe he could have maintained the strength of his argument while also including the fact that the American people coming from British roots, the Puritans, the Royalist elites, the North Midlanders of England and the North British and Irish were still unique as a sub-culture melded together by the choice for religious and economic freedom. The pursuit to own land and accumulate wealth, and not be under the rule of the crown was first and foremost in the early colonists minds. Fisher rests his entire point of view based on the roots of the four British folkways that separated the settlers in America.
Going further, one of the greatest points in the book is that humanity today views its place in the world as a conqueror; therefore, humanity views itself as the earth’s “chosen people” as opposed to any other species. Ishmael represents the not chosen people, all other species, or more specifically the idea that there is
Ze Wei Jacky Luo Section 1 10/07/09 Final Draft The hardship of Cosmopolitanism Conversations are the most important tool for people to express themselves to others. In Chapter two of “Cosmopolitanism Ethics in the world of Stangers” written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, he points out that every culture, every society has its own view on what is correct or not. Appiah argued that positivism and relativism is not a way to encourage communications, because the idea of cosmopolitanism is that everyone in form of one community respect and share their ideas with each other. Appiah believe if everybody on this world are open minded and trying to lead everyone from different culture perform as a global citizen. Appiah also mentions that positivism had driven by two fundamentally kinds of psychological states, which are beliefs and desires. Both of them have different “direction of fit.” said Elizabeth Anscombe.
The audience probably felt confidence in continuing the struggle to assure every human being received the rights granted to them. For example, “We, in the democracies, believe in a kind of international respect and action which is reciprocal.” She also assures the people that, “ Freedom for our people is not only a right, but also a tool…they are tools with which we create a way of life, a way of life in which we can enjoy freedom.” Apparently, Roosevelt wanted her audience to think of all of the freedoms that are allowed to the democracies and the lack there of in those totalitarian states. She was effective in doing this through the use of emotive language to reinforce the firm beliefs and hopes for freedom held by France and the other nations present. In the artifact “The Struggle for Human Rights,” Roosevelt used numerous examples to add support for her main claim and central arguments. Her main claim intended to persuade the audience that universal acceptance of the Declaration of Human Rights will assure all human beings are granted, without compromise, their fundamental human rights and freedoms.
In 1961, Du Bois settled in Ghana and began work on the Encyclopedia Africana, a compendium of information on Africans and peoples of African descent throughout the world. Shortly thereafter he joined the American Communist party and be W.E.B. Du Bois continued to work as an author, lecturer and educator throughout the first half of the 20th Century . His teachings were an important influence on the Civil Rights Movement of the’50s and’60s. Ironically, Du Bois died on the eve of the historic march on Washington in 1963.