Obesity in the African American community is a pressing public health concern that demands our attention and concerted efforts. The alarming rates of obesity within this demographic highlight a complex interplay of socio-economic, cultural, and systemic factors. This essay delves into the multifaceted nature of...
The appointment of the first African American Supreme Court Justice marked a historic milestone in the journey towards equality and justice within the United States. This essay delves into the life and accomplishments of the first African American to serve on the highest judicial body...
Throughout history, our country has faced one problem - Racial inequality. From the very beginning, our country has been built on immigration, but we as a nation tend to forget that. With time has been proven that white male supremacy is one of the oldest...
There were many things that were happening during the reconstruction but the one that stood out most was racism. Racism impacted America for a long time and has brought many changes in the people and how America works too. The African Americans and the white...
The results of the Civil War left the Union in chaos. The rebels lost but many still had the fighting spirit within them. The government struggled to decide on how much to punish the south. Too little, and they may not obey. Too much, and...
In the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry the reader is introduced to characters who have different experiences as African Americans due to the changing era and generational gaps. The play is taken place after a war in Chicago where slavery was...
Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in 1964, a reckless new expert fighter, straight from his Olympic gold award triumph, detonates on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Sharp and candid, he cuts an entirely new picture for African Americans in-game with his pleased open self-assurance with his...
The Help, a famous novel written by Kathryn Stockett, which soon also became a movie, tells the story of how African Americans in the United States experienced racism. Specifically, it demonstrates shameful, humiliating and unbearable living conditions of black maids in the 1960s, the civil...
The United States recouped from the common war and extended as a country and manage new monetary structures. The best issues incorporate subjection and decent variety after the civil war. After the war previous slaves had opportunity and openings yet at the same time confronted...
Throughout history, black lives picked and picked away at more freedom. The movement started microscopic and with small actions, and eventually turned into what it is today- an organization that refuses to be ignored. This ever changing movement has all different types of retaliations such...
Imagine a time a person, that could be a loved one such as your dad or brother was getting arrested by the police and while the police was arresting your dad, they asked him to get out his I.D. and as soon as he was...
A lot of times certain events occur in history which leave negative impacts on people. These events not only scar people from their current living standards, but also lead on to other negative situations. Many situations have occurred in history which have caused injustice, damage...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau who once said, “All men are born free.” (Frankel). However, this frankly doesn’t apply to those in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, as well as African Americans in this modern day. Throughout the novel, Orwell uses aspects of the government controlling...
In Martin Luther King Jr.'s final work, 'A Testament of Hope,' written in 1968, he emphasized the need for a continuously powerful political affiliation, believing that it could empower black opportunity. Despite significant progress since the Civil Rights Movement, this book highlights that there is...
Black’s fight to end institutionalized racism in the United States has been an ongoing challenge for many years. In response to consistent violence against the Blacks, the Black Lives Matter movement called to action Blacks all over the world to streets to campaign against the...
“I can’t breathe”. “Hands up”. “Black lives matter”. These bulletins created in reaction to the current deaths of Eric Garner, an unarmed Black guy choked to demise via way of means of police in Staten Island, New York, and Michael Brown, an unarmed Black younger...
Introduction Being an African American lady from the South who had been brought up by her grandparents. I have been deeply introduced to African American world views since my grandparents followed African American cultural beliefs loyally. As a result, they profoundly impacted the African American...
Boiling Animosities in Do the Right Thing Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is a uniquely crafted film that emphasizes and focuses on a tight-knit, yet subtly expanding community. As the film spans mostly over the course of a single day, the audience experiences a day...
In the year of 1619, slavery was introduced. It was the largest oppressive legal structure in American History. With the end of the Civil War in 1865, many African Americans in the South began to dream of integration in American society, including political empowerment, equal...
Throughout history, the negro race has faced trials and tribulations, and through this hardship many great leaders have arissen. The 20th century manifested two of the greatest and most well-known African Americans of modern times; Dr. William Edward Burghardt Dubois and Mr. Booker Taliaferro Washington....
During the rise and fall of Reconstruction in the years between 1865 and 1900, African Americans saw rapid progression in the recognition of their rights, followed almost immediately by rapid and total regression. While many gains were made during this era, the years that followed...
Similar to the Native American modules, the social conflict theory fits the course content present in the African American modules best. The social conflict theory is a sociological theory coined and founded by Karl Marx. In class, we discussed the five core ideas that encompass...
African Americans achieved almost equal freedom. America was the place for them. African Americans had plenty of things to help them out in America to get freedom those were 13th, 14th, 15, Amendments, Sit ins, Marches, The civil rights movement and the emancipation proclamation. The...
Equality is something that United States is seen as a representation of, yet has been unable to deliver to its own people. The United States of America was founded on the ideas of freedom, liberty, and justice for all; however, these ideas have only been...
Patterson gives three different interpretations of freedom. His first interpretation is about personal freedom. He interprets this freedom as the ability of an individual to do as they please within their limits. His second interpretation is sovereign. Like a sovereign nation, a free person can...
Culture, a word that has a valuable meaning for everyone but not everyone appreciates it. “After evidencing there is not a clear, plain, unitary idea of what ‘culture’ means in these yearly published reports” (Telleria, 2014), but it is something that people use to identify...
Throughout the United States during the 1940s and 1950s, racial segregation was a major problem in many states in which limited black people rights to participate in a variety of matters including sports, jobs, and schools., etc. When Jackie Robinson was first introduced into the...
The power of voice is an important idea that influences change. This idea is displayed through many different types of texts some of these being Hidden Figures a film directed by Theodore Melfi, The Help another film directed by Tate Taylor, Montana 1948 a short...
What would happen if black people had power since the beginning of the slave trade? Unfortunately, African Americans have always struggled throughout history with racism in the United States. Leaders who have been marginalized have used resistance strategies against the oppression of the United States...
Racism has been around for many years and till this day it still exists, a lot of the times African-American people are portrayed negatively in Hollywood films which affects the way people see African-American people. We, humans, tend to naturally prejudice any person we meet...
“Without Sanctuary”, without a place for safety, this was the case for many African-Americans living in the Jim Crow era. Although given freedom, African-Americans were left out in the cold with nothing. The title of being “free” meant nothing when society had them still enslaved....
In today’s technologically oriented society, it is very rare to find a speech that truly stands up to the ever-evolving tests of time. Barrack Obama has always been a man who bring up ideas that would alter conversations, having effects far beyond the date spoken....
“The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.” - Thomas Hobbes As a first-generation college student, I have been...
Who is more powerful in regards to affecting you ‘’the reader’’, Crooks or Curley’s wife? Some say Curley’s wife, others say Crooks. In the book Of Mice and Men Crooks is more powerful. The author Steinbeck created this character to show discrimination, to show who...
Alex Haley, Born on August 11, 1921, in Ithaca, new york and served in the U.S. Coast Guard for 2 decades before pursuing a career as an author. He eventually helmed a series of interviews for Playboy magazine and later co-authored The biography of Malcolm...
Poetry is often inspired by the events and context of the time that it is created. During the 1900’s, racism was extremely prominent, and it inspired various authors to craft their work around the scenarios that people of color experienced. Racism comes in many forms...
It's been a while since the days of Martin Luther King. To this day his name has a familiar ring to the ears of hundreds of people all around the world. If against racism he did not choose to strive. To this day the incredible,...
1865 marked the end of the American Civil War resulting in the emancipation of African Americans with the thirteenth amendment. Although they were freed from slavery, the period after the Civil War was still very difficult for African Americans as they faced economic and political...
To the people who have endured and survived enslavement for about 250 years in America, the word freedom meant everything. It meant families would stay together and women would no longer be sexually abused. It meant freedom to move around without having to receive approval....
Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me” introduces us to a new aspect of American history and the different topics that have been glazed over or taken out of context. “Gone With the Wind”, the fifth chapter of this novel, gives insight on the way racism...
Kipling portrays the message that white people are mire superior and can bring prosperity in the world. But I believe that any race or any skin colour can not be discriminated and without unity no success can be achieved. Kipling presents a European view of...
In the novel, Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark twain is dealing with the “objectivity of race”, whether race is a biological category or not, it presents itself in the novel. Twain censures both the institution of slavery as the emerging Jim Crow law. He argues whether...
In the 1989 film Glory, directed by Edward Zwick, one character stood out the most to me as a viewer. This character is named Private Silas Tripp, he plays an important role as to show one of the sides of how the African American men...
Black like me is a nonfiction book which was written by Howard Griffin, who was a junourist from Mansfield, Texas. Griffin uses the book to explain his journey towards deep south of united states when most of the African American was subjected to racial segregation...
E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime dives into the complex lifestyles of various characters that represent the identities and attitudes of America during the early twentieth century. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is one of the main characters presented in the novel, an African American male whose story becomes intertwined...
“Marcus Garvey” by Rupert Lewis, is a book which illustrates the struggling yet accomplished life of a black African man by the name of Marcus Mosiah Garvey; how each factor of his life played a major role in the fight of Racism not only in...
The book entititled “Marcus Garvey” is a life story that tells about him. Sarah Jane Richards and Marcus gravy senior the parents of Marcus Garvey who was born in St.ann’s bay Jamaica on the 17 of august 1887,Marcus Garvey was a social activist, protestant of...
The book ‘Marcus Garvey’ written by Rupert Lewis, seeks to illustrate events that occurred which has shaped our current historical and cultural identity. Rupert Lewis is a professor of political thought who has dedicated his time to educating and activism meant to indorse people of...
It is likely that you have heard or read the phrase ‘black lives matter’. Everyone observes it differently. Some people who are not African-American might want to say, ‘all lives matter’. Some read the phrase and realize that there are problems with how society views...
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa was written in 1778 by Alexander Falconbridge. This document was written to the overall population to uncover the slave merchants' inhumane conduct. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa delineates...
Despite the struggle to stop racial discrimination has made a significant step for the past thirty years, racism still thrives amongst us in the modern world. Racism has emerged to be such a deep-seated part of society to an extent that people tend to avoid...
When one talks about racism, most of our opinions are based on what happens in America; from 400 years ago until now, we find ourselves believing that racism in America has improved greatly. And we have improved, compared to the times before and after the...
Slavery in America started in 1619. This for certainty was the start of one of the struggles that African Americans faced at that time. People, mostly the Northerners, saw African Americans as a property that can be bought, sold, and used in any imaginable way....
Throughout many century racism is tremendously an issue to African American. African American have struggled a lot in America as they went from slavery to segregation and still till these days they do not look like others even after all people fighting for American American...
In class we have read Lorraine Hansberry’s play “Raisin in the Sun” and watched Daniel Petrie’s film adaptation from 1961. The story talks about a poor African American family and their struggles to live the “American dream”. I will be comparing and contrasting both stories...
In Alex Haley’s novel Roots, he expresses the struggles and challenges of African American men and women. He turns bad situations into a beautiful thing by including the love that everyone in the book had for their families. The challenges faced were of gaining power...
Alex Haley’s Roots novel and the subsequent 1977 miniseries shocked the world upon its premiere on network television because of its impactful and groundbreaking display of slavery and the African-American experience. Contrary to common misconception, the series displayed the horrors and triumphs of a family...
An emotionally captivating story of an impoverished African-American teenager, Michael Oher(Quinton Aaron), who is isolated and deprecated by society until one day he is adopted by a well-off Caucasian family, the Touhys, that turns his world around by providing him with food, shelter, and love,...
The movie that I chose for this assignment was The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock. This film is based on a true story about an African American teenager, Michael Oher, who was a part of the low-class society, having little to no money...
African Americans and American women have been oppressed by the opinions and laws of white men since the drafting of the Constitution of the United States. African Americans and American women’s most prevalent contributions exist in literature and culture, most predominately in the works of...
The Raven is about a man that starts late at night where he is reading, half sleeping and trying to forget his lost love, in which he hears tapping on the door and he becomes curious wondering who it is. He gets up and goes...
The first references to the Crow date back to 1844. In 1842, Edgar's beloved wife, Virginia Klemm, fell ill with consumption and was doomed to a quick death, in 1847 she died at the age of twenty-three. Anticipating an imminent tragedy, Poe writes many poems,...
Introduction The raven is a narrative poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) published in 1845. characterized by his music, his flamboyant language and the artificial atmosphere that it creates. the poem speaks of a mysterious visit of a raven speaking to a...
Richard Wright’s influential novel, Native Son, published in 1940, created an awareness of the reality of racial tensions in America by outlining the menace and complexity of social, political, and economic aspects. Wright brilliantly pieced together Marxist ideals, political abstractions, the impacts of social oppression,...
Discrimination has been an on-going issue in the United States for many years. African Americans have been continuous victims of this issue. Outspoken members of the black communities began to speak out about the concerns of this issue and worked diligently to work towards equality...
To Begin With, change that occurred in the Progressive Era helped woman open new doors woman’s activism in America. Which likewise helped give a lift to the long battle for lady's suffrage. Most of the help came from female clubs. Clubs that come to mind...
More than 4 million slaves were living in the United States in 1860 (Muldoon, 2014). These slaves were being worked to death, day and night, under the forceful white Americans. When the Afircan Americans first arrived in 1609, the white colonists thought they were less...
A U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson is considered a landmark decision that upheld the legitimacy of racial segregation laws in public facilities in the U.S. emphasizing support on a legal constitutional doctrine known as as as “separate but equal.” This decision...
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, self- respect is defined as “the pride and confidence in oneself; a feeling that one is behaving with honor and dignity.” (Merriam- Webster). The Color Purple is about a poor, uneducated black female named Celie, who grows up surrounded by...
The movie that I am writing about in this essay is 'The Color Purple'. The Color Purple is a historical drama fiction film and was directed by Stephen Spielberg. The Color Purple was released in December of 1985. The cinematographer for this film is Allen...
Promiscuous, uneducated, angry, toxic. These are illustrations of prevalent stereotypes of Black girls in America that corroborate the justifications of their quotidian maltreatment. In this paper, I seek to underscore the concept of false consciousness in perceptions of Black girlhood and how it perpetuates the...
By looking at concepts such as modernisation and urbanisation which arose from the Industrial Revolution, as well as racism, discrimination and the formation of class structures as studied and documented by Web Dubois, one will be able to conclude that these concepts which arose from...
Objective Summary of the Theory Symbolic Interaction theory is the idea that people react to situations and define them based on their own personal experiences and symbols that they know and learn. Two or more people can be in the exact same situation but can...
Living in a country in the western part of Africa, for over 12 years, has had its impact on my personality and the way I view the world. In Nigeria, 50% of the citizens live in poverty (Yomi Kazeem), and at least a third of...
Most people hear the word “disability” and what immediately comes to mind is, mobility, visual or hearing impairments. Even so, disabilities may be physical, mental or unseen; disabilities can result from various causes. The American’s with Disabilities Act of 1990 defines disability as “a physical...
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison highlights the parallels between two worlds. It depicted the struggles women of color encountered and that young, black adolescent girls faced in pursuit of their identity. The implications and far reaching effects racism had on African Americans during 1940’s...
Abstract This paper will be set up to explain how African Americans are targets for arrest and makes up majority of the prison's population. This paper will explain many different reasoning as to why this occurs, and the effect that this issue has on people,...
Background As an African American young woman, I have always been taught the sky's the limit and not allowing the world shape you into anything else differently. I have learned to express myself through my passion as a way of healing through the trauma I...
Money is often considered one of the most significant factors in defining a person's personality. This notion is evident in Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin In The Sun," where the Younger family's characters are shaped and defined by their financial situations. The play explores how...
There have been many cases where racial profiling is used in criminal investigations and other aspects of law and justice. In an article by Roger Clegg, it says, “Racial profiling occurs when race is used as a criterion in deciding whom to investigate” (2). However,...
Understanding Racial Profiling One of the most controversial topics in America's society today is racial profiling. Racial profiling is singling out an individual based on their race, religion, or color. Racial profiling occurs in many ways and people don't even realize it. Although racial profiling...
Introduction Is racial profiling happening in America today? Do certain ethnic groups get targeted more than others? These are some of the many controversial yet frequently asked questions today. It is often the topic on our nightly newscasts and debated by politicians. Merriam Webster’s definition...
As we wrapped up the end of Major League Baseball’s regular season a month ago, the highest paid pitcher in the league, Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals, will earn $42 million for his efforts. Additionally, 27% of MLB players are foreign-born (Anderson). In 1908,...
One of the hallmarks of good plays is their timelessness. Well-scripted plays tend to endure for very long periods and to remain relevant in their portrayal of the issues that affect people in their everyday lives, as well as to address themes that remain pertinent...
Fences successfully depicts the strenuous life of one African-American family during the 1950s and 1960s. This moving play is impactful because the playwright August Wilson uses tragedy to facilitate his message and example of how one family, after generations of failure, achieve success despite racial...
For years prejudice and racial bias have favored white people, affirmative action is a way to give to those people that has been oppressed and prejudiced against, however it can also be used as a system to keep benefiting white people, in this essay will...
To illustrate what life was back in the day in the racial community was harsh for the African Americans. There were times that people were wrongly accused of things just because of their race. The documentary “13TH” (2016), directed by Ava DuVernay, went in depth...
Slavery was a big issue in the beginning of the 20th century. A lot of African Americans in the United States were viewed as a possessions by white Americans and would do grueling jobs to earn a right to live. Growing up as a Christian,...
African Americans face plenty of problems in today’s society. Even with achievements like the abolition of slavery and racial segregation. They still face social and political problems in the 21st century. A critical issue that African Americans face is mass incarceration. There is increasing number...
Various behavioral correction practices implemented in learning institutions have quickly increased the number of African American youth that have run-ins with both juvenile and the adult criminal systems. Through these practices and societal inequalities,African American youth are being funneled into the criminal justice system more...
An African American woman named Mattie Gibson just wanted to escape her past which included “never getting any longer than third grade in primary school, going through a childhoodwithout any proper food or clothing, and having to deal with brutal racism and beatings fromwhite people....
In “Black Body” by Teju Cole, Cole writes a summary about his stay in Leukerbad, Switzerland, reflecting off of James Baldwin’s first visit there and the struggles he endured in his most significant piece of writing, “Strangers in a Village” towards his own. In order...
From the moment African American men are born a target is placed on their back and that target programs them to behave in a certain fashion. They are told from a young age to not show emotion, affection, and to “get over it, ” because...
Theres a justifiable reason numerous african americans are careful and skeptical about the great intentions of government and the medical establishment. indeed even today numerous believed the fear propelled notion that helps which desolated the african-american people group both gay and straight was made by...
Prior to coming to America, Africans were forced to face several traumatic experiences that only worsened their time spent in America. From trading to slavery, Africans endured plenty of psychological damage that is often disregarded, when discussing history. During the period of interregional trade in...
The word running is a present progressive tense which was extracted from the word ‘run'. According to the dictionary, running can be defined as an act of traveling by foot at a fast pace. In this context, running simply means reasons people should avoid police...
I will begin by citing Euclid. He stated, "Things which are equivalent to similar things are equivalent to each other." I like that statement since it's portrays how straightforward scientific tenets can disentangle even the most convoluted circumstances. In the issue of how law and...
It is insane how “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison was her only published short story ever written by her has only received limited attention, despite being the first African American Women to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Reading this story I believed that Morrison tried...
According to The beginning Years of Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church article, there were a variety of churches that were not for black citizens to attend, but it is seen throughout history some churches started to be established by black folk. How did the establishment of...
Have you ever knocked over a fragile china plate and caused it to shatter into pieces? Then, you tried to glue the pieces back together. Were you able to make it whole again with no noticeable cracks? This models the situation the United States faced...
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