SamUrozaBlackArts

 As this year comes to a close, this course has provided me with a lot of new material to think about. Previous educational institutions never bothered to cover these types of topics, restricting us of the knowledge to learn more about the Black arts and the significance of its movement. Rather, this course will leave me educated on the subjects and appreciative of this class for teaching me of things I have never known before. I hope in the future that more classes like this will not be just an elective course for students to choose, but a common lecture in other educational institutions for kids of all ages.  Following up with that, this course has led me to question more about the impact of the Black Arts movement in today's media. With this curiosity, I wish to cover the following prompt for my final paper: "The Black Arts Movement has had a huge impact on the media's interpretation of the Black community in today's media. The Black community felt it needed justice...

If I were in the place of a teacher who had the goal to teach a class about the history of American Culture, I would primarily focus on the Hispanic community and how they contributed to the development of the history of what the American Culture is today.  When people think about the history of American Culture, they usually think about the feats that the white Americans have accomplished in contributing to the development of their nation. What people don't realize or appreciate, is that various groups of people with various different cultures from around the world have just as mostly contributed to the development of American Culture. There are the Blacks, the Asians, the Hispanics, the Jewish, etc. who have done so much for this nation, but receive little to no recognition or appreciation for what they have done for the development of this nation's history. I am Hispanic myself and I had a first person experience in seeing and understanding the struggles my family have gone ...

  Representation of Black Femininity in the Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement was an African American led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. Through activism and art, the Black Arts Movement created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. Yet while the Black Arts Movement has solely been focused on amplifying the voice of the black community in a white-driven society, it has also only been mainly vocalizing men's voices in this community and minimizing women’s voices. How have women in the black community also received a voice to be heard alongside the movement? Cultural production in the media nowadays have become more expansive and more diverse in the communities the media decides to represent. The Black Arts movement had an impact on why it is like this now, but this exact issue of what the media can choose what communities to represent and what about that community they can represent can lead to several issues. It can giv...

3 Questions To Ask Myself: - The Black Arts Movement has solely been focused on amplifying  the voice of the black community in a white-driven society, but has also only been mainly vocalizing men's voice in this community. How have women in the black community also receive a voice to be heard alongside the movement? - Despite the Black Arts Movement's main achievement is to display their culture and receive recognition for it in a majorly white community, wouldn't they still have alienated parts of their own community as not everyone's respected culture was appropriately represented or recognized? - Has the Black Arts Movement, which had a big impact in integrating further black culture appropriation in society, spark other minority groups to do the same? How was that received? "Soul Of A Nation" Pieces: Sources: -   The Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) • (blackpast.org) -   Brooklyn Museum: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power - ...

Disenfranchised communities usually refer to communities of minorities, whether they are black, Jewish, Asian, Hispanic, etc. not having a say or choice in how they are represented in media franchises. So, when the topic of representation in pop culture and fine arts is brought up, it can cause some backlash from the communities the media is presenting. These disenfranchised communities had no say, rather had their voice deprived of speaking up for themselves when asked how to be represented in media. With no say in the topic, it would lead to these pop culture references and fine art pieces to misrepresent and most likely discriminate and stereotype these targeted communities. So, there is very little chance that most of these communities approve or like these types of representation in the media and would rather not associate themselves with it. The relationship if very strained and they have a right to be upset. It would be a different thing if these communities actually had a say i...

With knowing the amount of knowledge I know I have about Black History, I feel like I must learn a bit more before I can fully understand what I am learning in this class. What I have learned was through educational systems, but even then, these institutions failed to discuss the topic on a broader term.  Other pieces of knowledge that I have gained was through personal interactions with other people or through the internet. Again, this knowledge that I have gained, I believed was enough, but it simply isn’t for this class’ standards. It’s certainly an overall interesting topic and an essential part of history to learn more about. So if I wish to have a better grasp on this information in this class throughout the year, then I feel like I must expose myself to more pieces of media and literature to understand and connect.

Sweet Flypaper is a collaboration between Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava. The collaboration between them in this novel helped give more insight into Harlem's black community while also being easily readable for white viewers and equally appreciated by black people as well.  However, it's also this collaboration that can face some challenges as the white community may not see any interest or reason as to why they must document and publish the black community's way of living and culture in their archives. Even with how real these photos may be in correctly representing the black community's culture, they may still face some hurtful stereotypes and pushback in ever being properly represented in society.