African American studies

professional disciplines, theories and analyses scholars have stated that HBCUs make a distinctive contribution in improving African Americans students GPA (RHE96).There are many factors that play a role in the effectiveness of improving your GPA while attending an institution of higher learning such as social environment, self-concept, financial and family support (CSJ07). But African American students face the factors previously mentioned plus the constraints of being stereotyped because they…

Punishment in the judicial system is not in favor of an African-American for any reason at all. In 2013, a Pew Research Poll showed that in 2010 black men were six times as likely to be incarcerated as white men. Blacks go to jail for crimes ever day as well as whites but for particular crimes the court favors differently…

African American women go through trial and error just to make sure their hair meet society standards. In the late 1940s, St. Paul, Minneota chemist and Jose Braquiel Calva invented the "chemical straightener", known as a hair relaxer today, has became very popular in the black communities over the years (Thompson 1). . Hair relaxers are designed to “glorify” and straighten the hair in a fast and easy process. Since the creation of hair relaxers, straight hair has been one of the many…

established was made to help people especially African American who did not have anywhere to go, this center was established to help them get the education that they needed and also help others who needed any other services whether it was food, clothes or anything that they need in other to survive. Powell contribution to social work was necessary because during this time, not many African American could read or write and at the same time not many African American could resources that they…

all things African American. She attended Howard University, a historically black school, for a graduate degree and went on to lecture at Eastern University in the Africana Studies program on the history of black woman and hair. Following up her education, she became the leader of the NAACP for several years in in her local chapter which is Spokane, WA. Beginning in 2006 or 2007, Miss Dolezal has disguised herself as a black woman by doing her hair and makeup to appear African-American;…

provide a sense of stability. In this class, we will explore the contradiction of the idea of linear time: the African concept of time. The African concept of time is the idea that the past is the present is the future. It is represented by the idea of Sankofa which directly translates to “go back and get it,” and means that to learn about the future is to go back to the past. In American culture, we use our concept of time to separate ourselves from our history, specifically the institution…

overview of this qualitative phenomenological research study addressing the challenges and underrepresentation of African American women holding senior-level positions within corporations. The problem is that African American women are the least represented ethnic group holding senior-level positions within corporations (Corporate Diversity, 2010). The number of African American women holding these positions is not representative of the African American population (Freeman, 2012; U.S. Census…

healthcare racial inequalities of African Americans. Cultural differences, and racial conscious and unconscious are factors that contribute to the gap in African American health. Therefore, collecting only medical data and physician behaviors towards certain diagnosis, is not enough to determine or conclude that there aren’t any deep rooted unforeseen components that play into racialist thinking by physicians. Despite the alarming writings of African Americans dying of heart disease, strokes,…

continued to travel and study internationally before he became in charge of Harvard’s African-American studies department. Additionally, Gates was an exceptional student who continued to excel academically, he graduated with a degree in history from Yale University in the year 1973. He continued to pursue high education at Clare College, which is a part of the University of Cambridge in England. He obtained his doctorate degree in 1979, making him the first African American to even receive a…

environment. African-Americans, in particular, have not had the privilege of choosing their environment throughout history. The strength of the people in the African-American community is due to the influence of their physical and cultural environment. The physical environment of the African-American community is determined by the class…