African American studies

For example, Remember the Titans. This movie is based on a true story about a racially-diverse football team, their new African-American coach, and different traditions each player comes to learn throughout the movie. The Titans players did not like Coach Yost being replaced by Herman Boone, a black man. Coach Boone did not let these ill feelings thwart him, but instead tried…

United States. Due to the 15th Amendment in 1869, African Americans were no longer denied voting rights based off their skin color. In 1954, in the Brown v. Board of education case, the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all laws allowing segregation and discrimination in public locations based off skin color, race, religion, or national origin; including the Jim Crow Laws. The first African American, Barak Obama was inaugurated as president…

According to CDC Center of Disease Control nearly 70 million American adults are suffering from hypertension. According to mayo clinic staff Hypertension is condition where the force of the blood against the artery walls is high enough, which could cause health complications such as heart diseases. Blood pressure is measured by the amount of blood the heart pumps and the amount of resistance of blood flow in your arteries. The more blood the heart pumps and the narrower the arteries get, the…

segregation was defined from religious reasons. Many whites needed slaves to work for them because many of the Native Americans (slaves) were dying, running away, and Spain outlawed slavery. Due to the outlaw and the death of Native Americans, they need more slaves than just servants, so they collected thousand and thousands of slaves from Africa to work for them. These slaves were African American and they were immune from disease. They were not treated the way we assume slaves were treated, at…

Fitness programs have also been used as a strategy among African American women to decrease the risks of chronic disease such as obesity. Studies show that exercise can play a significant role in preventing diseases and chronic conditions, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis (Manage A Chronic Disease, 2015). Weight loss management interventions have been implemented to help this population of women to control these conditions. Sbrocco, Osborn, Clark, Hsiao…

Brown, N.E. (2012). Negotiating the Insider/Outsider Status: Black Feminist Ethnography and Legislative Studies; Accapadi, M. M. (2007). When White Women Cry: How White Women's Tears Oppress Women of Color. Merriam, et. al. explored insider/outsider cultural experiences in terms of positionality, power and knowledge construction. Merriam as the organizer, complied research from case studies conducted on participants…

period, only 35 covers included women, and only 18 featured a female as the primary image. Only 11 covers included women of color, and the context of their inclusion is not mentioned in the article. In addition to content analysis of covers, another study by Fink, Parker, Cunningham, and Cuneen, (2012), looked at advertisements featuring female athletes. They found 81% of female athletes endorsing a product were scantily…

harbored radically divergent views on how to assist African Americans to free themselves from their often subhuman conditions. Both men were aware that technological advancement was of foremost importance to the advancement of African Americans (Johnson & Watson, 2004). Booker T. Washington Philosophy Booker T. Washington who was a student at Hampton Institute became convinced that vocational education was the only way that Blacks would become…

1. Introduction The disparities in hypertension prevalence in various racial or ethnic groups exist since 1960, being highest in the non-Hispanic African-American adults . Apart from having higher prevalence of hypertension, this group reportedly has poor blood pressure control as compared to non-Hispanic whites , and poor adherence . One of the theories used to explain medication adherence behavior in patients with hypertension is Bandura’s Self-efficacy theory. Self-efficacy is the person’s…

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 provide leadership skills that will…