The Life of Albert Simms

In the United States of America, African Americans are considered a minority due to their low social status in society. The protagonist of Invisible Man faces many difficulties in his identity due to racial prejudice. He is an African American who relies on other people to tell him what he should do, instead of making his own... ... middle of paper ... .... Those who opposed to those outrageous classifications were label as ignorant. Society gave African Americans no other alternative but to accept the social remarks imposed towards them, and if not they were classified as insane. Andrew Heberek discusses the psychological and emotional problems African Americans faced in society due to social remarks.

In the beginning of the story, the narrator’s grandfather says that the only way to make racism become extinct that African Americans should be overly nice to whites. The Exhorter named Ras had different beliefs of the blacks rising up to the whites and take power from the whites. Even though these thoughts come from the black community to take the freedom from the whites, the stories reveals that the are just as dangerous as the whites being racist. The narrator has such a hard time throughout the whole story exploring his identity. While doing so, it demonstrates how so many blacks are betraying their race because the have such a hard time dealing with it.

Richardson gives substantial responses on the study of region, race, and gender in the South. Richardson introduces the element of how the South has an abundant amount of impact on black men through its long time history and stereotyping. Richardson also mentions how the black man can be type casted to be a threat to society. I chose this book because it discusses the evolution of the black man in the United States, and focuses primarily on how the south has evolved, but still has a the notion of categorizing the

Response to Black Men and Public Space We still consider a black person as a bad individual in today’s society. In his essay, “Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples describes why he had to alter his behavior in order for the public to feel safe around him. Staples uses different examples in order for the reader to comprehend as to why he needed to do this. Staples further gives us details how he is being discriminated throughout all his life. Moreover, Staples tells us his emotions and frustration at how societal is prejudice towards black people.

Response to Black Men and Public Space We still consider a black person as a bad individual in today’s society. In his essay, “Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples describes why he had to alter his behavior in order for the public to feel safe around him. Staples uses different examples in order for the reader to comprehend as to why he needed to do this. Staples further gives us details how he is being discriminated throughout all his life. Moreover, Staples tells us his emotions and frustration in how society is prejudice towards black people.

Moreover, it sheds light upon the psychological consequences that resulted from the violation of the African-American’s identity. Furthermore, this chapter shows the African-American’s self debasement, helplessness, and double consciousness that emanate from the sense of uprootedness. After experiencing the long and excruciating experience of slavery as well as Jim Crow segregation in America, the African-Americans suffered from a sense of uprootedness due to their loss of identity. Thus by accepting the distorted image that is imposed upon him by the American society, the African-American is forced to lead a life in double consciousness. Thus, the black race suffered from a social estrangement and displacement in the American world: … a world which yields him no true self consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

Dr. Miller, Josh Green, and Jerry, three diverse black characters from The Marrow of Tradition, exhibit different effects of slavery and racism throughout the book. Dr. Miller gets his hard working qualities from his slavery influence, but racism makes him feel inferior. Josh Green, on the other hand, is socially subordinate because of slavery, and the racism makes him extremely violent towards whites. Lastly, Jerry is so influenced by white men that he still thinks he is under their control and conforms to everything they do; racism affects him by making him racist against blacks. The Civil War, though it supposedly ended slavery, monumentally impacted the blacks through racism and the long term consequences of slavery.

In the article In Search Of Manhood: The Black Male’s Struggle For Identity and Power, author Aza Nedhari explains “The peculiar institution of chattel slavery was meant to be a permanent condition for Black males; a condition that would lay the historical framework for structural and institutional racism that resulted in a conflicted formation of identity within Black males leading to perpetual servitude”. Through anytime of extreme change in lifestyle or perspective, there is an adjustment period that takes a significant amount of time to conquer. The entire African American community faced this exact affair when the slavery era came to an end within the United States. Even as this happened, segregation was still an issue that hung over the African American communities’ head; limiting their ability to move on from their nightmare like history. Not being able to abandon this mindset of being below White America, kept African Americans in this box that did not allow them to flourish.

The ... ... middle of paper ... ...Americans received. The health of an African American was awful because of how they were treated in their jobs, and in society. The wellbeing of African Americans was not good at all because of all the hate crimes and abuse that came from white people. The abuse that the African Americans endured was not only from the white people, but from their parents. The African American children had to learn how to behave, and what their place was in society in this era.

Black people around the world have been hypnotized into believing all their failures in life are due to discrimination, but are they correct? Blacks are often their own worst enemies, often the cause of their own disasters, and many don’t see that until it’s too late, if ever. Discrimination and prejudice are imposed upon Blacks, often because the culture they live in is not “acceptable” to the dominant society. On the other hand, an understandable reason for Blacks actions is often due to unattainable opportunities towards the American Dream. Are African Americans perpetuating their own stereotypes about their culture?