I Am A Man Analysis

The image “I Am A Man” shows that men who are black in this time period are given what would be the less important jobs such as a sanitation worker while the white men get more important jobs like soldiers. The textual element I found in this image is the use of foreground. The soldiers with the guns are placed in the foreground to appear bigger and more important to the workers who stand in the background of the image. This image compares the difference between white men and black men and how at that time, white men were given a sense of power and hierarchy whereas the black men were stripped of any sort of dominance or power.