African American studies

would get the rights they deserve. Well it hasn’t always been that ways especially toward Africans Americans in the South. African Americans have fought for equality in both education and labor. It hasn’t been easy to be considered as an American because there are still some rights that have been denied to us African Americans including, getting a higher education and succeeding in a profession. African Americans and have a right to equality and should be able to work with white men to create a…

Criminology, 93(4), 827-879. In this publication, Coker addresses the reality of the criminal justice system. In the first section, he discusses the overwhelming empirical evidence of the criminal justice system’s unjust and unequal treatment of African Americans and Latinos. In section two, he criticizes the Court’s response to Armstrong and Bass claims of racially biased prosecution, demonstrating that the “similarly situated” standard is an indeterminate standard: by focusing on one potential…

health care issues that surrounds many within our society. These issues have caused many concerns especially among African Americans. People of color often make lower wages based on their lack of education and race. Statics show that white and Asian Americans, who have the highest median incomes are concentrated more in professional, executive, and managerial occupations than African American. Poor choices in jobs could be a major factor. Another factor is that due to the high cost of insurance…

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 total U.S. population (Center for Disease Control, 2015). Amongst African-American males…

Powder Cocaine: Unjust Prison Sentences of Two Races For decades the United States has experienced an imbalance sentencing problem between African Americans and White Americans who use crack cocaine and powder cocaine respectively. Although both of these drugs are similar to one another, African Americans have been incarcerated more often than White Americans. According to the NAACP, from 1980 to 2008, the number of prisoners in America increased from about 500,000 to 2.3 million. Today, the…

a crucial component in changing equal rights for all African Americans. “What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior” (Du Bois). He was a major influence on society, a major influence on african americans being that he was one of the most famous african american sociologists, and he still continues to influence american society today through the past actions he had in…

opportunity to hear spoken word and poetry is what led me to the event. This event is related to African American studies due to the fact it featured poets and spoken word performances about African American history in the 21st century. One of the featured artists on the program as D Noble. He recited a spoken word titled “In Search of Ourselves and Anti-rap”. The spoken word was about how rap portrays African American women as unequal to men. A line in the spoken word stated “Hip hop needs…

t led reconstruction and increasing racial discrimination by law to compel African Americans to make tough choices to fail. The overwhelming majority of them are still living in the south and facing fierce resistance, and even violent to demand equal civil rights. Some of these blacks concluded that direct political efforts to assert their civil rights may not be of interest. Instead, they tried led by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) focus on economic development for blacks. He insisted Others,…

Our Indifference towards Discrimination Since the day that the first Africans were brought to North America they never had the same quality of life as the white folks of the country no matter of their economic stand point in the society for the most. After the civil rights movements, the African American population of the country have gained “equal” rights as other citizens of the country by law; however, the public discrimination by people and government branches, most importantly, the…

The 1950’s was a silent civil war for rights. The African Americans protested violently and nonviolently for their rights. Nonviolence was the better way to protest during the 1950’s. During the 1950’s the African Americans were protesting. Some were killing others in violent protests while others were doing non violent protests. Non violent protests were faring better. Non violent protests showed that the African Americans were civilized and did not resort to violence often. Nonviolence is…