African American studies

to have in today’s society, especially because of what it has taken for African-Americans to have the right to attend school or even learn how to read and write for that matter. Many persons sacrificed their lives for those who are able to go to integrated schools today and be given the same opportunities as any other student regardless of skin color. Being able to achieve a higher education is a great deal for African-Americans. Black men and women coming together to get a decent education to…

Unlike white Caucasian actors, the number of roles which are available for ethnic minorities are low. A study conducted by University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication shows that black actors occupy 12.5%, while Asian and Hispanic hold only 5.3% and 4.9% respectively for roles in top 100 films in 2014. However, the existence of these roles is likely to be the secondary characters or to merely diversify the movies. Recalling two popular sitcoms in the late 90s and 00s,…

Methodology IRB Approval The Advance Directives (AD) education program methodology was a culmination of logical and organized sequential events that commenced upon Prairie View A&M University Institutional Review Board (IRB) formal approval to conduct the project. Adhering to protocol, with respect to the education program participants and safety, the IRB approval process began with the formal review of minimal risks. It also entailed equitable subject selection, and measures of privacy…

Between 1910 and 1920 African American population increased by sixty percent in New York City while the number of whites living in the area decreased.The White Landlords began to sell their properties to black before the prices began dropping. Blacks are not alone to be blamed for…

mentally, which inherently distinguishes them as either inferior or superior. Comparatively, racism can be defined as a feeling or conviction that a particular race is superior to other races. An example of racial ideology would be the treatment of African Americans by Anglo-Saxons. Correspondingly, the practices of racism and racial profiling dates back many centuries ago. In the nineteenth century, when racial profiling emerged, scientists utilized it to ascertain whether or not a correlation…

“At least five elements, distinguish automatic from deliberate processes: awareness, intention, control, effort, and efficiency. This study was a result of both deliberate and automatic thinking. When participants had to identify the colors of the rectangles, it was automatic thinking because they knew the colors... However, when asked to identify the color of words which spelled out different…

painfully reopen the wounds. sim knew about anesthesia but refused to administer it to Anarcha or to the tend other women … Rather than treating the men for syphilis, the PHS doctors used the study to determine what untreated syphilis would do the body” (252 - 253). In particular, these examples how African Americans have been subject to multiple forms of involuntary experimentation. These experiments were performed without proper consent between…

suppression of Black women’s ideas within White-male-controlled social institutions led African-American women to use music, literature, daily conversations, and everyday behavior as important locations for constructing a Black feminist consciousness” (Collins 2000, p 251). Black feminist epistemology uses non-traditional methods in order to spread knowledge since the dominant framework did not allow African-American women to express themselves. The emergence of these alternative frameworks is…

I started learn about the history of my ancestors and slavery when I was in high school. When I started becoming conscious I asked many questions like why Africans have so much self hate towards their darkskin color? Was it because they were only taught that the light skin is better? Or can it be the results of not knowing their history and identity? Many of us go to school mastering European history, without…

more aware and accepting. There will be less generalizations among cultures and in result, there will be more inclusivity within the nation. African American history is the part of American history that looks at Black-American ethnic groups in the…