Shakespeare's depiction of each simultaneously establishes cultural ideals of women and challenges the justice of them. ... Her obedience to Othello's commands was the accepted act of wives during the time period, and any actions against the husband were viewed as wrong. ... Emilia's actions toward her husband and comments at Desdemona's actions show her active role in the play. ...
Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... This conglomeration of ideals to form an authentic African-American spirituality with Christian and African overtones has been descri...
Both Equiano and Rowlandson were captured for the financial gain of the captors: Equiano was sold as a slave for financial gain by his captors and owners while the Native Americans held Rowlandson for ransom to be able to obtain much-need food and supplies (Rowlandson) Both were sold to a series of owners: Mary Rowlandson to various "husbands" and Olaudah Equiano through a chain of owners taking him from his home to other countries. ... Olaudah Equiano takes on Western ideals while keeping several of his African values; making him a man associated with two cultures but a member of ne...
She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ... If the black man were attracted to the white woman, it was not because she was a symbol of power or an ideal of the oppressor, but rather because of his innate animalism (Bogle 14). ...
The dilemma of all enslaved women was the conflict between virtuous, womanly ideals and the sexual exploitation mentioned above. ... One of the main virtues of "The Cult of True Womanhood" was submissiveness either to husband, father or guardian, but in order for a slave woman to remain "pure", which is another virtue of the cult, she would have to resist her master, a thing that contradicted the virtue of submissiveness. ... Thus she understands that some common ideals of womanhood cannot be applied to black enslaved women, and the latter should establish concepts of integrity and selfhood fo...
Throughout the years, slavery has played a dominant role within the Cherokee Nation, inevitably affecting thousands of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans alike. Within the last decade, a vicious battle has come alive between the Cherokee people and freedmen. These freedmen, who have ...
