African-American literature

Literature Review Within this literature review, the focus is to show the suicide rates amongst African-Americans. Hispanic females in America have the highest rates of students who tried suicide in the nation, with a 12.8% prevalence rate. African-Americans, on the other hand, have a rate of 10.2% (CDC, 2015). This review will present three major sociocultural factors affecting African-Americans: the male population, female population, and youth population. African-Americans make up 12% of the…

During the Fall semester of the 2015, I was a part of Dr. Charles Tita’s African American Literature class. Originally, I took the class to fill up my credit hours as well fulfill a prerequisite for my major. The first day of class was like many others and I believed this would be just another “read and respond” class. As the semester moved along, I quickly realized that this class would not be like the others but instead be something new and different. Unlike other classes where professors…

review of the literature revealed a noticeable absence of research that focuses on the experiences of African American women who have advanced into leadership positions (Parker, 2005; Stanley, 2009; Bell, 1990). It is imperative for organizations to identify and develop female leaders who can work effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries. It is important that today’s organizations have the ability to identify a diverse workforce which will include African American women, to…

the teaching force reveal the declining numbers of African-American teachers. Statistics show that chronically the numbers of African-Americans teachers have declined. After the First World War II, 79% of African-American women who worked after college graduation were educators (Murnane, Singer, Willet &Olsen, 1991). In the 1950s, one half of all African-American professionals were teachers (Fosters, 1989) and in the mid-1980s, 23% of African-American women who worked after college graduation…

Compare & Contrast Between Genres Vernacular in African American literature are spirituals , gospel , hip - hop , country , and hymns all these different types genres are from different time periods that were either past down or put together to make thee other. The genres i would like to compare is hip-hop and gospels people assume that they are so different because one lifts up the followers and the believers of christ and the other talks about money , women , & drugs. The first published…

The brutality that African American endured is just terrifying. All they wanted was to live in peace and freedom has taken so many lives. Denial is one of the recommendations that Verna talked about and how we need real people. People need to stop pretending that their not biases. As she explains how being bias is how we are about to associate positive in White people and negative in Black and this in turn results in being biases preferring to be around a White person. Being that a face of a…

essential moments in African American literature. It encouraged and motivated African Americans to form their very own publishing companies and magazines as well as numerous institutions of the arts. The movement was also believed to have inspired the formation of African American Studies classes at universities and colleges throughout the United States (Rojas 2147). The Black Arts Movement was also thought to have been initiated by Malcolm X’s assassination (Salaam). In literature, some of…

Review of the Literature A recent study conducted by Education Trust (2016) found that over the past decade, graduation rates for African American students improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for white students. However, because completion rates of African American students progressed at a slower and lower rate the graduation gap has grown. Of the 232 institutions studied 68.5 percent of the institutions had an African American student graduation rate increase, while 31.5 percent of…

cruel institution, was established in the United States, and 152 years after slavery was abolished in the 13th amendment of the US Constitution, we still see African Americans fighting for basic civil rights. The struggle for civil rights is a continuing fight that has evolved and improved over time, especially because of African American literature. There are numerous writers whose stories have shaped not only the civil rights movement, but our society today. Because of books and poetry that…

the postbellum era. Some people may wonder if this is a deviation from reality, but the truth is this kind of revisionism is in itself a historical truth, something emerging in something the writer is living at the moment. If we can read African-American literature and appreciate its constantly renewing revisionism, then we can get…