scholarly journals Ramifications of Racial Identity in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 430-438
Author(s):  
Dr.S. Mahadevan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tragic Mulatto ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
The Relationship

This paper attempts to bring out the racial identity in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills. It presents the struggle for African-American identity; the idea of feminist consciousness is brought forward. There is a fight against racism. Women are found to be dominated, humiliated, and harassed by the male characters. The theme of tragic mulatto is introduced in the novel, reinforcing the importance of racial roots. Linden Hills portrays a sarcastic examination of the uncertain struggle for African-American identity in the nineteenth century and twentieth century. The relationship between personal identity and cultural history is the main theme in this novel. Naylor focuses on a community of heartless people who have become detached from their cultural past in the action of ascending the corporate ladder towards a promising monetary future. In this quest of upward mobility, the occupants of Linden Hills have even turned away from the sense of their racial identity.

Affiliating With George Eliot

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
Daniel Hack
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Literary History ◽  
African Ancestry ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Tragic Mulatto ◽  
Sexual Violation ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
American Literary History

This chapter looks at George Eliot's usage of the “unwitting passing and voluntary racial affiliation” scenario in her works and what it means for African American writers. Virtually no other major British writer ever told it at all. By contrast, a number of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American writers—most of them African American—constructed this same scenario, almost invariably in stories about African American identity. Within American literary history, such stories are legible as refutations of what has come to be known as the tragic mulatto/a plot. In stories with this plot, the discovery that a character who has believed himself or herself to be white has some African ancestry is cataclysmic, leading directly to enslavement, sexual violation, madness, and/or death.

scholarly journals STEREOTYPING AFRICAN AMERICANS’ RACIAL IDENTITY ON VALERIE MARTIN’S PROPERTY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Rasiah Rasiah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
African Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
American Character ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
New Form ◽  
Valerie Martin

This study is intended to analyze the persistence of African American stereotype in the contemporary slavery-themed novel authored by Valerie Martin, Property (2003). Valerie Martin is a white author, who seems to have changed the slavery discourse, but the stereotyping of African Americans is still there and built in a new form of stereotyping. Postcolonial analysis showed that the stereotyping of African Americansas ‘other’ existed in direct stereotyping and indirect stereotyping. Direct stereotyping is that the author directly uses the pejorative language and symbols in forming the African American character, meanwhile indirect stereotyping is the author using the shift of discourse that seemed worthy in describing the African American character, but in the same time it affirms the stereotype of the African American identity as inferior still exists, even in the so-called Post-racial era in the United States. Keywords: Representation, Stereotyping, Identity, Race, African American

scholarly journals Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110143
Author(s):  
Soyoung Park ◽  
Sharon Strover ◽  
Jaewon Choi ◽  
MacKenzie Schnell
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
2016 Election

This study examines the temporal dynamics of emotional appeals in Russian campaign messages used in the 2016 election. Communications on two giant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, are analyzed to assess emotion in message content and targeting that may have contributed to influencing people. The current study conducts both computational and qualitative investigations of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) emotion-based strategies across three different dimensions of message propagation: the platforms themselves, partisan identity as targeted by the source, and social identity in politics, using African American identity as a case. We examine (1) the emotional flows along the campaign timeline, (2) emotion-based strategies of the Russian trolls that masked left- and right-leaning identities, and (3) emotion in messages projecting to or about African American identity and representation. Our findings show sentiment strategies that differ between Facebook and Twitter, with strong evidence of negative emotion targeting Black identity.

Obama and Race in America

The Forum ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton Keller
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
American Identity ◽  
African American Identity

AbstractThis examination of Obama and race in America has three themes. The first is his African-American identity, and concludes that it has marked and useful resemblances to John F. Kennedy’s Irish Catholicism. It then examines Obama’s record affecting race relations in America: what he has done and, as revealing, what he has not done. Finally, it seeks to set Obama’s approach to race relations in the context of its rich and diverse history in this nation.

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