Reflection On African American Culture

Throughout the semester for this class I learned many things about the black women. I was immensely excited to take this class because I wanted to know in depth about African American culture. One of the reasons why I decided to take this class was because of my aunt, She is half black and Vietnamese. She told me that her father is from Nigeria and her mother is from the south vietnam, but she didn’t get the chance to learn or get to know her culture on her dad's side because he had passed away when she was a little girl. When she told me about her story I was hooked, then I decided that I should take a class that deals with African American history. This class is exactly what I was looking for. I took this class to have a better understanding of what African …show more content…
All of the articles I’ve read was extremely engrossing and it helped me understand the term womanism, slaves, and sexuality. There is a lot to cover for the articles, but it really made me think differently. The movies we’ve watched was fascinating because I never knew how African cultures were like and how their style in clothing were important to them back then. After watching the films, I’ve got an idea of African history was about and learned in depth of African women. The three themes/concepts that are important to me is slavery, sexuality, and skin color. These concepts are relevant to me is because slavery back then was a huge problem. While reading the articles and watching films such as “Roots”, “Sankofa”, and “12 years a slave” that relates to slavery makes me feel uneasy. I know that this was back in the day, but in reality there are still slavery going around in our society today. How the way people treat Africans are really disrespectful and unfair just because they are a different human being. What Africans have to go through is more painful than anything else in this world. Black women get rape, tortured, and