African Americans

The slavery of African people in the United States of America started in 1619. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr, only 338000 out of 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America.1 African slaves always did the hardest jobs such as aid in production of sugar or tobacco crops. White people purchased African people and worked them to death. Most of the African people were treated such as animals in 16th century. African Americans have been fighting for an equality for many centuries. There…

According to CDC Center of Disease Control nearly 70 million American adults are suffering from hypertension. According to mayo clinic staff Hypertension is condition where the force of the blood against the artery walls is high enough, which could cause health complications such as heart diseases. Blood pressure is measured by the amount of blood the heart pumps and the amount of resistance of blood flow in your arteries. The more blood the heart pumps and the narrower the arteries get, the…

considers the minimum required to feed an individual. While each society has a different threshold, poverty is an issue that greatly affects minorities such as African Americans in the United States. Notwithstanding, using the second principle of symbolic interactionism,…

The Injustices of Mass Incarceration of African Americans Since 1980, the United States has seen an unprecedented rise in incarceration rates. The United States is only 5% of the world population, yet it has 25% of the world’s prisoners. Currently, the US is the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.3 million people currently in jail and prisons. That is a 500 percent increase over the last forty years. These incarceration rates, mostly which runs independent of crime rates, are suggested…

Have you ever wondered what it was like to an African American in the 1920’s or maybe how hard it was for them? There were two groups that would forever change the live for us African Americans the NAACP and the UNIA. The UNIA was not the greatest group to join even though it helps black communities it had some major draw backs. The NAACP is the greatest choice for a better country and equal rights for everyone. So sit back and relax and listen to why you should support the NAACP. The National…

and the ability to produce knowledge—but there are times that African American students fail to gain this privilege because of the teachers’ perception of AAE (Delpit, 2002). In the educational system, teachers tend to correct more miscues that are dialectical in nature in reading casts when students are African Americans. The teachers also expect lower intelligence, academic achievement, and reading skills from their African American students as well. Students who showed lower rates and…

The media today is cluttered with negative images of African American males. I believe that something needed to be done about it. The media has such a huge impact on today’s society. Things that you see and hear in the media are affecting good people in a very bad and harmful way. I believe that the media doesn’t see the harmful stigmas that it is placing on a whole group of people and the consequences that it has for them. This is very disheartening because it is keeping racial stereotypes and…

The African-American characters who pass as white in “Passing”, exhibit the shame they feel about their race when discussing black children. The three African American characters, Gertude, Irene and Clare, were friends from High School who meet for coffee to reunite. Gertrude and Clare both pass as white, although Gertrude’s husband knows her “true” race, while Irene does not pass and lives in Brooklyn. While at lunch, Clare discusses that she cannot have another child due to the fear that it…

Everyone talks about how African American rights have improved since desegregation and the Civil Rights Act with many Americans feeling that we are no longer troubled by the intolerance of the past. Yet, subtle forms of racism are more of a widespread problem than we would like to admit. Yet, most people in the U.S. do not see themselves as prejudiced. Americans of all nationalities are seen as getting along peacefully together with recent reports on the media of cities working to increase…

black-eyed peas was in fact fed to enslaved africans to help them survive and sustain their fearsome voyage. Black-eyed peas symbolizes a form of luck. Correspondingly, I discovered the “Rice Culture” in the United States was based on the expertise from the people of Sierra Leone on West Africa’s “Grain Coast.” In addition, I learned that in certain African cultures the name Kwaku means "born on a Wednesday." Furthermore, in chapter two, I learned that African tradition has had influences over…