African American

The history of violence against African Americans in the South is long, tragic and varied. While this history is made up of many different forms of extra judiciary violence, I would argue that off these acts the lynchings carried out during Jim Crow were some of the most heinous and politically impactful. Seeing brutal images of a town gathered around a hung body provide those studying the political history of the American South with a vivid depiction of what systematic disenfranchisement really…

that let them come and go doesn’t see staying out past ten o’clock as freedom. The African Americans viewed freedom based on everything that was occurring in society around them. Think about how many times someone has told you, you cannot do something but everyone else is doing it. That is the most frustrating thing in life, and to be able to hold your composure at the same time is even more difficult. American Americans faced this challenge every day of their lives, and top of this they faced…

them. Young black males have been stereotyped as criminals and hoodlums, in which many have been killed off of assumptions and not actually facts or proof of being a threat to somebody. For example, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and many other African Americans have been accused of being a threat to people for no apparent reason. In which has resulted in death. Many minorities get harassed everyday and are not getting the justice they deserve, that has to end now. Minorities have been…

was met with deadly force. At the same time as Europe’s nation built empires across the globe, Africans and Asians were being stripped of their land and beating to death. In the west, popular culture reinforce the idea of a racial hierarchy and being better than the next race and white supremacy by ridiculing black people. Throughout the twentieth century from the Mississippi cotton field and South African diamond mines, a tale of racial exploitation and violence unfolds. Many people would lose…

The idea that the black American and African American communities are dependent on a single leader is one that has existed since the era of slavery and persists in our modern era. Essential writings by black American leaders in the history of the United States all have differing opinions on which qualities shape a successful leader for the black American and African American communities. Focusing on the ideas and opinions of W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells, who strongly…

time period in history can tell us a lot about the ways people were living and how they believed behavior affected certain mental illnesses. In my writing I will describe a man who is mentally ill during the early 1700’s. I will also describe an African American in a Georgia asylum and also a middle-class woman in a water treatment spa in upstate New York. I will detail what each of these individuals does on a daily basis such as their hygiene, what kind of clothing they wear and also how the…

One of the groups I chose to learn more about was Asian and Pacific Island Americans. What I have learned from this particular group is that they have a low death rate which is really interesting to me because I didn’t think that one group could have such a low death rate. I have also learned that in that the number one leading cause of deaths among Asian and Pacific Island Americans is cancer. I generally thought that the leading cause would be a tropical/warm area disease like Malaria or…

emerge because of advertisements like Sprite, Nike, and Adidas. In these ads during prime-time shows, Black male athletes played the main role and this strengthens this stereotype because it portrays that athletic wear and shoes were worn only by African Americans that were athletes. This in return, creates a biased assumption; whenever someone sees a Black man wearing one of these products then, one would assume that they are athletes because of commercials like these. In Sunkist Orange Soda,…

ethnically diverse is an excuse to make others feel left out or treated inadequately in society. Grant was an African-American man who got a decent education but was still treated less than the average white man, it also did not help that he did not think of religion to be as important as the rest. The start of Grant being involved into the society is because what happened to a young African-American man named Jefferson, he was accused of first degree murder and guilty of robbery. Jefferson was…

slaughter of minorities has subsided. However, a new form of racial tensions has emerged in American society. The mass slaughter of minorities may not have completely subsided, it has just taken a different form. Many races besides caucasian, or people of other religions, are being persecuted in the same way, but African Americans have dealt with it significantly higher proportions. The murder of innocent African Americans in our society is disproportionately larger than any other race.…