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Different Sides of The Same Coin: the marginalization, objectification of African Americans

ARIANNA REYES

While reading the Opportunity by Charles Johnson, the passages that stood out to me were The Corner By Eunice Hunton Carter and The High Cost of Keeping the Negro Inferior By John C. Wright because of the way perspective is utilized in each passage to explain the subtle and not so subtle wealth and class… Continue reading Different Sides of The Same Coin: the marginalization, objectification of African Americans

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Defying Appeasement — Blog 1

SABLE GRAVESANDY

Crisis Magazine works to visually reconcile ideas of Blackness with modernity and culture. Images of prominent and historical Black figures on the covers highlight the intellectual and cultural influence of Black people, defying the racist depictions so common at the time. Instead of stereotypical caricatures, Crisis shows Black people as participants of respectable society. Most… Continue reading Defying Appeasement — Blog 1