African diaspora

biracial student feel uneducated which is an injustice. Fortunately there is a growing amount of biracial teens with confidence to try college out because they have a fair right to do just that.There is a growing number of organizations to help African American and Biracial students on campus. These organizations are formed from literature groups, poetry groups, history groups, rally groups, and newspaper staff(Williams). This helps biracial students conform into the college lifestyle with an…

however, was criticized more harshly for portraying African puppets with black faces and big red lips. The sad part about this situation was that majority of Graham’s criticizers were African Americans. While the production of The Big White Fog performance continued, she at one point thought that she would get support from NAACP. However, the NAACP response was that the play was ‘communist propaganda’ and should never have been performed. African American…

discrimination, poverty, or low-wages (“Marginalization”). One race that has been a major target of oppression—namely, slavery—for many years now, and continues to be exploited on lower levels, is African Americans. Additionally, women nationwide continue to be oppressed both politically and in the workforce. African Americans have undergone copious amounts of oppression as well as discrimination throughout their lifetime, slavery being their…

found that over the past decade, graduation rates for African American students improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for white students. However, because completion rates of African American students progressed at a slower and lower rate the graduation gap has grown. Of the 232 institutions studied 68.5 percent of the institutions had an African American student graduation rate increase, while 31.5 percent of institution’s African American student graduation rates decreased or stayed…

faced many challenges and heard many sides and thoughts on life and they put it together to have their own lives. This memoir was created to show that any black or African American can overcome odds and be what they want to be by motivators, by experiences and by Responsibility. Motivators are one way that can help any black or African American overcome odds and be what they want to be. George was 8 years old when…

cannot help but follow in his or her day-to-day life. Everyone has stereotypes. One common stereotype that most people tend to reject out of guilt or society’s morals is that black men, specifically, can be threatening to women. Brent Staples, an African American writer, has personally and generally experienced this stereotype in the streets of Chicago. By analyzing Staples’s rhetorical devices in “Just Walk on By”, one can certainly come to the assumption that stereotypes of race and gender…

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) is set in Chicago’s Southside and many social issues of the 1950’s are the themes of this play. This essay is about one of the major themes in the play, racism, and how the Younger family, a poor black family, experienced and resisted the racism in their society. The members of the Younger family had to deal with discrimination in the housing industry, their home and their jobs. In, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family bought a house in a…

Columbia Pictures, is a movie based on a true story of an African-American man named Chris Gardner, a multi-millionaire investor and a motivational speaker. Gardner is not only a persistent, hard-working, assertive and confident man, but also a responsible father, who played both roles as a single parent. Thus, he is a clear example to prove that the negative perspectives about African-American men are wrong. As people think, most of African-American masculinity is egotistical and weak. To be…

ghetto resemble them. They are human beings full of hunger, disease and fear which situate their condition not in ancient Africa or Europe but America as limbo itself. Having experienced acculturation or alienation, the black ex-slaves become neither African nor European in outlook. Their sad king or leader named Doris (“I” in this verse) is “Shape without form, shade without colour”. He lives in exile at a place of humiliation and self-indulgence. The slave singers are perhaps realistic to…

Throughout the civil rights movement, African Americans received no respect for decades and decades, no matter if you were old or young, man or a woman. Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspirational speaker sticking up for what was right. While dealing with the same disrespect all Negroes were receiving. During the civil rights movement King spoke out his hopes and wishes for the world, hoping to change the ways of many. By using appeals to logic and emotion, it helped people understand Kings work…