African American studies

and express and affirm their view of reality. For members of the African diaspora, culture surpassed its role to provide self-definition and sustain the group ethos; it became a way to physically survive. As a site of cosmic connection, identity, meaning and value were made and remade in order to resist. Through the tenacious practice of culture, Africans endured in America. --(K.Zaiditu-Selassie, African Spiritual tradition in the Novels of Toni Morrison,1) In the…

racial perspectives. Stewart explains past police to citizen relationships makes people either avoid interactions with the police or not comply with police officers. Stewart offers solutions to fix the police to citizen relation. Based off the African Americans experiences with polices, he thinks that changing policies will not change much. Stewart suggests more police involvement with the citizens to gain trust between the two. That police should create partnerships with the citizens to police…

diseases, accessible healthcare and health outcomes. In the U.S minorities such as African Americans, Asians and Latinos, Asians and Native Americans (Robertson, 2014). Asthma is a common disease that plagues at least 7% of children in the United States. Asthma is a chronic disease which causes the airways to become inflamed, which can result in coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness. Research has shown that African American children are suffering…

Although, many feel that the United States has overcome its rustic history, the legacies of colonialism, slavery, and racism, which still affects our policies and practices today. Since the beginning of America, African Americans were forced to migrate to America as slaves. Slaves were considered to be the property of their masters based on a hierarchy system, where whites ruled at the top. Slaves had to follow the slave code, which gave them zero rights or freedoms…

the start of the 20th century, African-Americans faced extreme hardships in the south. Life for the average African-American was an everyday struggle, as it involved many challenges even well after the ending of slavery. After the abolishment of slavery, many African-Americans remained in the South. The migration movement in was mainly to find better educational opportunities for their children and better employment opportunities for themselves. African-Americans moved out of the southern…

film on the clinical study, The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. This film is written from the point of view of nurse Evers. Miss Evers was a nurse working at the Tuskegee Institute. The film shows the excitement enlistment Miss Evers had into the study because she was under the impressions that the cure that was offered by the clinical study was going to help cure everyone but most importantly African Americans. This clinical research lead the African American men infected with…

gender may think they are better than that gender. Racial stereotyping is the post common out of the three. Racial stereotyping can lead to many accidents such as Travon Martian and George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman a white men saw Travon Martian African American with his hood up and it was dark a thought he might have been up to no good. So he knew from past racial stereotyping that black man are never up to any good so George Zimmerman shot and killed Travon Martin base off of Stereotyping.…

African Americans have among the highest rates of hypertension (consistent elevation of systemic arterial blood pressure) in comparison to other nationalities. Many factors have contributed to this epidemic, including geographical location, lifestyle and dietary habits, and even genetic components. Morbidity and mortality rates are greatly affected by compliance and management in African Americans battling hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases. This literature review will explore the…

delinquent behavior. Police also would be biased, and parents should be able to make decisions on their kids' curfew. First, teenagers do not like seeing police around them. Studies have shown that 80% of African American teenagers don't enjoy seeing cops around them due to some of the racist affairs. 75% of African American teenagers are afraid because of the police killing unarmed black people. Those incidents showed…

The African American migration North in the twentieth century is now known as “The Great Migration” (Graves). •African Americans migrated North in search of better jobs and to escape discrimination and prejudice (Graves). •The industrial boom in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries created a high demand for labor. However, Irish and other European immigrants filled the majority of this demand (African American Population). •Historians believe if factories didn’t use as much…