Perspectives In History

What is the role of language in a developing society? 

This work explores language’s relationship with context in regards to the Black community. Specifically, the variety in which meaning can be expressed. As a scholar of political science, the materials discussed in this essay were paramount in my realization of the impact language in law has had on impacting the Black community.

“It implores one not to ignore context, and to acknowledge the hypocrisy America’s freedom is based on.”

Final Essay

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Language Helps Us Judge; To Help or Hinder

The importance of language in the Black community.

James Baldwin presents language as a social and political instrument, in response, I analyze the role of human’s innate judgment in connection to language; and subsequently judgments’ role in social and political structure. This work analyses language’s relationship with culture, and what impact it has on the black community

“We find homes in people who sound like us.”

Critical Response: James Baldwin

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Save Yourself

Willing away racism, where do we go from here?

As a critical response to Roxane Gay’s “Remember No One is Coming to Save Us”, thinking complexly about the ideas she presented in regards to racial equality was exciting. When faced with the indifference Whites display at racial violence in her work, I raise the question of who is to defend us if we can not defend ourselves?

“Those who actively contribute to the struggle black people face by continuing to be uneducated, force Black people to perform emotional labor in an effort to defend their existence.”

Critical Response: Roxane Gay

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