Albert King once stated: "The Blues its twelve-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization and trouble, which are always present, and always the result of others, pressing upon unfortunate and down trodden poor souls." The music wit...
The first is ethnic awareness which plays on the concious understanding of one's own as well as other groups on any given moment and the ability to understand differences among distinctive characteristics of various ethnic groups. ...
Apartheid, literally meaning separateness or setting apart , was the ideology of the South African National Party that made the segregation of and discrimination against non-whites government policy. In this paper I will discuss how two different theories of state repression can be applied to the Apartheid regime in South Africa. I will discuss how High Modernism, a theory constructed by James Scott, and Organic Nationalism, a theory put forth by Michael Mann, contributed to Apartheid ideology. High Modernism rationalized, regulated, structured, and reorganized South Africa into a society t...
"Differences in terms of durable and hereditary group characteristics, [as well as] physical or mental [characteristics] constitute racial thinking... "# Audrey Smedley also argues this point by stating that "although everyone will mention physical features, almost always racial traits also will include certain learned behaviors such as music styles, mannerisms, and assumed personality traits", which are also comprised of racial thinking (Smedley 1999, 13). ...
It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. ...
