African American studies

Sagara performed a study called Deadly force in black and white and researched data that noted in the time frame of 2010-2012 1,217 killings that left civilians dead at the hands of law enforcement. The federal data showed that African America males ranging from the ages 15-19 were killed at a 31.17% per million rates as opposed to White Americans were only killed at a 1.47% per million person’s rate. For that statistic to equal out for a White American, 185 more White American teens in the age…

Miss Ever’s Boys is a flashback, or reminiscent style movie that deals with the issue of racial inequality, race and gender intersectionality, and the African-American’s “double consciousness”. The movie begins with Eunice Evers, played by Alfre Woodard, as a testifying nurse in a Senate hearing who worked as a nurse during the Tuskegee Study, testifying and recalling the happenings of the past. The disaster starts as a simple plan to provide care and treatment for the population suffering from…

lost individually due to being African American. The issue of racism against African Americans has become problematic, but none more so than in the medical field. The medical field has been set up in numerous ways to discriminate against African Americans. Using tools to score people of color low on medical exams, infecting people with diseases that often ended in death, and even taking cancerous cells without consent. The medical field has affected African Americans negatively throughout…

African-American Males Racially Profiled by Police Officers Racial profiling has become a controversial issue for all of America especially African-American males because of the recent increases of their arrest and killing by police officers across America. African-American males are the major targets of police officers who engage in racial profiling. (Weatherspoon). As defined by the American Civil Liberties Union, “racial profiling is the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials…

present itself. The authors arguments had three main components. They spoke on racial profiling, citing that people, even the police officers that were tested, are more likely to say a “stereotypical” African-American male is a criminal, as opposed to a “less stereotypical” African-American man, based on a study conducted by Eberhardt and some of his colleagues. The authors also examined a series of…

According to Lirsten West Savali (2012) in the first three months of 2012, 30 African Americans were killed. Out of the 30 killed, 20 were definitely unarmed, 2 had possession of a firearm, and 8 were alleged to have a non lethal weapon. In the study, 12 were innocent of any illegal behavior or activity. According to the study, in all but two of the cases, the threat of violence could have been rendered without deadly force. This study shows that the use of force is a first option for some…

disciplines of psychology, sociology, and economics to identify linkages between individual, family, community, and structural factors related to social mobility for African Americans during the transition to adulthood. It considers how race and class together affect opportunities for social mobility through where African Americans live, whom they associate with, and how they are impacted by racial and class-related stigma. Of particular interest is social mobility as accomplished through…

laws and the American criminal justice system as they relate to each other. Alexander uses detailed history and hard facts to support her thesis that the Mass incarceration of African Americans is the governments way of reforming Jim Crow laws to fit todays time. The reason why this topic of Mass incarceration of African Americans is such an important topic to address is to preserve the future of the black community and to change the role that…

and psychological repercussions on a developing individual. Researchers Goldner et al. (2009) three-year longitudinal study found when low-income African American adolescents in urban neighborhoods, spend their recreational time in public and with older peers, both boys and girls linked with increased risk. Additionally, reported rates of exposure, through surveys, African American adolescents were more likely to witness a crime-related violence in their environment (Stein et al. 2003).…

Article Assessment- Oppositional Defiant Disorder Kathryn Ervin Appalachian State University Overview of ODD ODD is a pattern of behaviors; angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. The symptoms have to be distressing in areas of social functioning to themselves and others, and cause significant problems in all areas such as school, work, home. The symptoms must be present among at least one person that is not a sibling. The behaviors have…