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It took sixteen years for me to become racially aware. While my mom did her best to make sure I was well-versed in both social justice issues and my African-American heritage, I didn't completely acknowledge, accept, or understand cultural differences—black culture in particular. I lived the majority of my life in Moreno Valley, a city primarily composed of minorities, never having been exposed to white privilege or minority disadvantage. Moreover, a good portion of the kids I've met are, what…

My essay is going to focus on the Reconstruction Era and the changes minorities experienced. After the Civil War, they essentially tried coming up with various ways to rebuild after damages had been done. During these times immigrants were displaced and treated badly. My essay is going informing readers of how this Era effected nationalities. There were several plans for reconstruction. These plans would have a profound impact on people during this Reconstruction Era. One of the things…

The world wouldn't be the way it is today if it wasn't for slavery. African slavery was an outstanding quality to the British empire because slavery shaped the new world of Americas. Initially, when the British defeated the peoples of Eastern North America (Indians), they had destroyed many Native Indians and caused an outbreak of diseases. Those natives who survived through the conquest of guns and diseases declined to work with the defeaters or on the plantations they produced. This led the…

can be viewed as poor people who are stealing “our” jobs and do not speak English. African Americans can be viewed as bad people who will eventually end up in jail. These are two great examples of stereotypes that are currently occuring in America, which are completely wrong. There are plenty of people of Mexican heritage that are engineers who speak English and are just normal American citizens. There are African Americans who are doctors and police officers that help communities everyday. Some…

freed people may not own a gun or work in trades. Another issue was that black women worked alongside men in fields while they were slaves and once they were emancipated, husbands resented the whites and didn’t want their wives working for them. African American women’s labor was displaced and there weren’t many options for them. Former slave husbands also had a lot of anger from being enslaved and in some cases would take that anger out on the wife or even his children. Women from the north…

Studies. According to John Clarke, he describes through Saunders Redding, theory on how history has played a major part in the academic perspective on Black Studies. A history first distorted when the Europeans first travel and kidnapped thousands of African for enslavement. The study was to revamp the studies for Black Studies and to focus on the long historical roots that many western societies used to justify the enslavement and colonial system to do. As students, we first are introducing to…

Relationships between blacks and whites in America has always been strained due to racial reasons. There have been times in America’s history were unfavorable events from both races have occurred. These factors have led to distrust between the two races. Racial injustice in the United States like slavery and Jim Crow laws has further created a divided in the American nation. Today the Civil rights movement has transcended into the Black Lives Matter Movement, and just like the movement, blacks…

For my ethnography project I will be doing the study of African music. This tradition and culture started around the 15th century. Miriam Makeba is a popular artist of African traditional music. He played folk, pop rock and jazz. I picked this topic because their religions, feelings and rituals. This stuck out too me in so many different ways. Another reason why I picked this topic was because of the interesting instruments they play. This music is some of the oldest extant music traditions in…

construction of race and stratification among peoples, there has been a prevalent notion of collectivism within the many different ethnic groups of the world. More so than others, there is an ongoing emphasis on collective responsibility among people of the African Diaspora. Collective responsibility embodies the ideal that each human being on the planet is the responsibility of another. In philosophy, the representation of this ideal is most commonly associated with the philosophical tradition…

Throughout the history of African Americans, labor has played a large role in their lives. Labor for Blacks has changed over the few hundred years that they have been in the United States. It began with slavery in 1619, when the first slaves were brought to Virginia. During the period of slavery, slave labor was the main labor force in the United States. Upon emancipation, Black labor changed drastically. Black people had the desire to better their lives by finding jobs, as a result, caused a…