Author: DORIAN SANTANA

Final Blog Site Proposal

Final Project Proposal 2.0?? just writing things down

DORIAN SANTANA

Title of Final Project: The Black Struggle to Becoming American –  Life Before and After the Harlem Renaissance   The American Negro has always found him/herself a second-class citizen to his/her white counterparts throughout history whether it is enforced through slavery, segregation of people based off color, pay wage differences, police treatment/racial profiling, mass incarceration… Continue reading Final Project Proposal 2.0?? just writing things down

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4/26 Hot Take on Black Digital Humanities Articles

DORIAN SANTANA

For the first article, Making a case for black digital humanities, the author claims “Black people’s subsistence and resistance to the complex oppressive systems of slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and police brutality, across time and space makes black lives ground zero for a technology of recovery using social media…” (p.44). More than 150… Continue reading 4/26 Hot Take on Black Digital Humanities Articles

Blog Post #5

Blog Post 5 – Playing two sides? What even is race?

DORIAN SANTANA

Is it only passing when you’re “black” but you look “white?” Since the trope of passing has been more associated with blacks passing as whites due to the increased social privileges that they redeem, it’s been hard to understand that whites can pass for blacks. Or can they? The reality is that people who have… Continue reading Blog Post 5 – Playing two sides? What even is race?

Blog Post #3 · Opportunity Magazine

Blog Post #3 – Does Violence Ever Solve Our Problems?

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Passages that stood out in Opportunity by Charles Johnson were both “Gandhi” and “Better Human Relationships.” The whole purpose of magazines and intellectual works like Opportunity, The Crisis, Survey Graphic was to not only show that negroes have talent and history but to take a shot at changing their image and being accepted as people. In Objectivity… Continue reading Blog Post #3 – Does Violence Ever Solve Our Problems?

Blog Post #2 · Survey Graphic: Harlem Mecca of the New Negro

Blog Post 2 – Harlem’s future: Is gentrification all that bad?

DORIAN SANTANA

In “The Making of Harlem,” in Survey Graphic by James W. Johnson, negroes gradually moved from a corner of Lower Manhattan to 53rd St and then ultimately to Harlem because there were a construction of better houses.  As there was a shortage of labor, there was of course a hefty amount of work available and… Continue reading Blog Post 2 – Harlem’s future: Is gentrification all that bad?

Blog post #1 · Crisis Magazine

blog post #1 – Why was The Crisis made into a magazine when DuBois [and others] disliked magazines?

DORIAN SANTANA

Although W.E.B. DuBois is known for his involvement with the NAACP and his periodical, The Crisis, along with being a big player in reconstructing the black visual image, he much preferred book publications rather than magazines. He claimed that our country was “magazine mad,” and that magazines/newspapers were a “festering abomination, hodgepodge of lie, gossip,… Continue reading blog post #1 – Why was The Crisis made into a magazine when DuBois [and others] disliked magazines?