African American studies

industry transformed Midwest from agricultural to urbanized economies with trading hubs in cities like Chicago. This transformation from rural to urban sparked the Great Migration, a mass movement of African Americans from the South to industrialized cities in the North. This influx of African American communities challenged the existing racial constructs in the metropolis and gave rise to new socially constructed identities and means of self-expression. Davarian L. Baldwin examines these…

-Andrew Cherlin. During the past half century, African-Americans have become the most unmarried people in our nation. A substantial amount of evidence through using extensive research has shown that the decreasing rate for African-American marriages is an issue that is widespread throughout the country, although this particular topic isn 't the main precedence throughout society it still affects the lives of many African-Americans. African-Americans have always been considered the race that is…

dark skin involving which is more predominately accepted in society. It all contradicts the necessity of a certain body image in order to be appealing. Despite the fact that physical appearance isn’t a full testament of ones worth in the world, African Americans particularly become bias regarding their own experience’s that have swayed their opinions about those ignorant underlining opinions such as light skin is better than darker skin. You would think that we could be at a point now that we…

Reflection Paper Throughout my role as a student and volunteer I learned that community uplift is the most important goal of African American studies. Civic engagement in a community is necessary for the growth of the inhabitants and their well-being. Foremost, my experience in volunteering for my community encouraged me to view specific social issues differently. These social issues include, the importance of positive role models, an abundance of academic/ personal resources, and the…

African Americans, Hispanics and Violence in America There are many recruiting cases in America that involve violence. Most of these cases are connected with minorities. The majority of these minorities are African American and Hispanic. There is an extreme percentage of African Americans and Hispanics in prison in the U.S.A. There is also an extreme percent of African Americans and Hispanics living in poverty. African Americans and Hispanics are in the lowest percentile in education in…

000 poor African-Americans with syphilis for free but there wasn’t enough money to continue the program so it ended shortly after it started. Taliaferro Clark then came up with the idea of the Tuskegee experiment which was where the government conducted an experiment to research and study syphilis and latent syphilis in African American and to learn if Syphilis was different in whites and African Americans. The experiment was conducted in Macon and Tuskegee Alabama where lots of poor African…

that disproportionately affect African American and Latino youth soon became a large part of this discussion. This caused a number of questions to arise regarding the affect race has in juvenile justice decision making. Are these racial disparities a result of discrimination or bias that is prevalent within arresting officers, the juvenile court or both? This paper will examine the effect of race and social context on the treatment, processing and incarceration…

struggles of living as an African American in some of his writing, including being defined as and by his race. In his excerpt “Racial Identities”, Kwame Anthony Appiah describes the struggles of living under modern racial stereotypes, suggesting that racially charged social identities can have detrimental effects on one’s individuality and one’s ability to be a functioning member of society. African Americans do not all share the same identity. Appiah states that African Americans “do not have…

Jr. and other African Americans participated in the Civil Rights movement in hopes of ending racial discrimination and segregation against African Americans. They hoped that future generations of African Americans would have equal rights and as Martin Luther King stated in his “I Have A Dream” speech,“ I have a dream that one day my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of the character” (American Rhetoric).…

Current Event An unarmed African American 18 year old, Michael Brown was shot and killed on August 9, 2014 by a white police officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Shortly before the shooting, a convenience store had been robbed. Officer Darren Wilson claims that as he encountered Michael Brown, he recognized him as the suspect of the robbery. Therefore, he backed up to block him. There are several claims, and not enough evidence to anticipate what exactly happened next. Officer…