African American Lives

Both Johnson and Dyson’s essays explain and example of how a group of people are stereotyped and how media influences others to view them. Those being stereotyped in the two essays are disabled people and African Americans. The ones stereotyping a group of people have no insight on who those people really are and are simply making assumptions based on appearance. Social media is widely popular and because of it, different stereotypes and discrimination are spread. Johnson shares her experience…

with the intention of building a better bond within the American people in order to assemble a remarkable future. During that time in America, most citizens were racially divided and many people of color were looked down on in society. Martin Luther King saw a problem with how segregated they were and him an many other advocates for civil rights planned to do something about it. This speech was a way to motivate millions of African Americans to demand justice from their oppressors, to say…

is like as an African American and the struggles that they face due to their skin color. The song “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar has grown to be very popular. Many people interpret this song as a song about hope for the future. Both the song and the music video have received enthusiastic responses, highlighting the message that was related to social outburst at the time in regards to racism towards African-Americans. The song “Alright” has been directly associated with the Black Lives Matter…

affect African American identity which generated questions for me while reading through the findings. When thinking about the my experience of being African Americans and Black in America, many people can find similarities regarding racial issues between different ethnic groups. However, a great point that Sellers made in the beginning of the 1998 study which was that no other ethnic minority were explicitly reduced to property which is important to remember because at one point in time,…

“City services like trash collection, street lighting, and emergency response were less adequate than in white neighborhoods. African Americans paid higher rents than whites” were just some of the few injustices that the African American communities faced.(20) The lack of trash collection, street lights and emergency response shows a lack of care for the lives of these humans. Trash collection is something that promotes public health and ensure that air as well as surroundings are safe to…

bus boycott and led smaller organizations. Most of these African American women were just serving as volunteers. They were in the churches to cook the meals and to make sure that all the preparations were made. They cleaned up after the rallies and made sure everything was in place for the next one. They were just working in the shadow of everything but still risked their lives and worked effortlessly without any praise. African American women were motivated to contribute to the civil rights…

gladness”1. African Americans have a different perspective about living in society. They are ostracized because of their color, and often have less freedom than that a white person. Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, addresses the problems of African Americans in her autobiography. Cudjoe believes that, “The world to which Angelou introduces us is embroidered with humiliation, violation, displacement, and loss” (27)2. She uses examples such as: racism, segregation, African…

the fight for equality is over, there is an irreplaceable amount innocent lives that have been lost as a consequence to the ongoing dehumanization. For many generations, we have been separated by our skin color and treated unfairly. Violence has erupted, and while some of it has been settled, it would be naïve to say it is no longer prevalent. To further the path to equality, activists created and refined the “Black Lives Matter” movement. This movement has grown particularly popular over time…

Over the years, African-Americans have dealt with the strains of finding and becoming comfortable with their own identity in America. The reason for this is because from the time of slaves being brought into this country there has been two Americas; a “white” America and a “black” America. Both are the same country but divided by different means. The Americas are divided by the majority and minority groups. With African-Americans being the minority they are pressured into feeling as though they…

author of these two poems is Langston Hughes. Hughes was born in 1902 and died in 1967 (Wikipedia, 2018). He was American poet, social activist, and novelist. He was from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the people to start the innovation of jazz poetry. He was also known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York (Wikipedia, 2018). His grandmothers were both African American slaves and his grandfathers were both white slave owners (Wikipedia, 2018). These two poems in the Montage…