Shekenya Knight
MK Asante's Buck Through a Feminist Lens

In M.K Asante's memoir Buck, controversial issues rise regarding invisibility, abuse, oppression, and silence. Malo grew up in Philadelphia during the 1980s. In my hometown, Norfolk, Virginia, I have experienced some of the same situations that Malo was in. I live in an area where there are drugs, families losing their children to the streets, and killings everywhere. The purpose of this essay is to examine the theme of invisibility, silence, abuse, and oppression in M.K Asante's Buck through theoretical framework in a feminist lens in regards to his mother, his sister, and the entertainers at the party.
Through historical context, some people feel like mass incarceration has become the New Jim Crow. That is because the rise of drug wars and the explosion of the prison population, and because discretion within the system allows for arrest and prosecution of people of color at alarmingly …show more content…
"She's a pretty girl with dark, glass-smooth skin" said Malo (Asante 41). She likes to study her family's genealogy. She sees and hears things that the rest of her family cannot. Anika thinks her family has a direct lineage to famous celebrities. She thinks she is a decent of German, French, Creole, Spanish, Cherokee, and many more. Chaka got heated whenever Anika said they were anything except African-American or black. Anika told Malo "Dad's African royalty is adopted African royalty because he went to Africa and became a king and that's how he got his African royalty" (Asante 42). I think through the feminist theory, Anika is a very strong woman. She says she feels happy, not scared and depressed. She isn't afraid to speak out about a topic. She says it hurts that her mom and dad don’t believe her when she says the police and racists harass her. They just want to put her in the mental institutions and silence her. She feel oppressed sometime by her