Afro-Asian

their as is, which is commonly associated with the “Afro”. The “Afro” was not only a hairstyle, but a political statement for black men and women refusing the restrictions from society and assimilation to white standards of beauty. The Afro was also a “silent affirmation of African roots and the beauty of blackness” (Brown 16). The Black Power Movement is strongly associated with…

demand of different textured hair extensions, there are various colours that allow one to spruce up their look without box dyeing or bleaching their own her to achieve the look. The introduction of twist outs and ‘wash-and-go’ styles has given the Afro a stylistic flare as well. A twist out or braid out is basically what its name describes it to be, the person braids or twist their hair for various amounts of time and when the person is…

room until a magazine cover stole my gaze. The cover was amazing to me, it was different. The shiny cover contained a picture of a young women, and read “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975”.I analyzed the caramel colored woman on the cover, with an afro the size of earth itself. Throughout all the magazines on the table she was the only one without makeup and flat thin hair, but she was still the most confident one, who also spoke a million words in one picture without even trying. I shimmied the…

Women’s and LGBTQ also have a history of oppression. This quarter I was grateful to study about many Asian American and Women’s…

marriage and family bonds than Americans are the stereotypes about Asian Americans rooted in the American society. In the United States, Asian Americans are usually stroked at hegemonic ideology imposed on minorities. The Asian American experiences within the context of other racial and ethnic experiences in the United States usually relate to the stereotypes. The experience of Jeremy Lin is a good example. Jeremy Lin is an Asian American professional basketball player of the National Basketball…

Logos, or logic, involves looking for arguments that make sense in a piece. Amy Tan’s essay is very logical. It makes complete sense, and is simple to understand. Being that it is a narrative, she uses examples to back up her statements about English. She tells the stories of her mother dealing with the stockbroker and the hospital as means to make her point clearer. Ethos looks at the author’s credibility. Tan is a well-known writer, and does a lot of public speaking. We can trust her…

how the cultural identity of Asian Americans is affected, share a common thread in that each author posits a framework of polarized racial and cultural ideologies that lay the groundwork for evaluating the tensions and contradictions for the Asian American position. These opposing ideologies serve as ‘poles’ or axis that evince the struggle Asian Americans are situated against as part of the diaspora within clashing White American culture. This essay will frame the Asian American culture…

Some things might have changed towards Asian Americans today but there is still discrimination in most parts of United States. I think Asian Americans still go through the stereotypes and still are labeled as either Chinese, Koreans or Japanese. Orientalist attitude can be viewed in many ways today. For example, Asians who currently work in Hollywood, film industry, continue to be understated as a minority group in movies. Asians or Asian Americans continue to be neglected to such roles…

immigrant in the United States, I was not concerned about any issues regarding Asians and Asian Americans. I do not think that it is important for me to know or pay attention to them. As long as my life is not affected, I would not take the issues of Asian and Asian American seriously. However, I was wrong. I did not know that Asian Americans’ problem could be a controversial topic in the United States until I read those Asian Americans’ articles and news. In this class, I also could somehow…

determine when Asians started immigrating to the Americas, but the first findings of a person of Asian descent in the American territory come from an archeological project in 2007. This project speculated that the first people were actually sea men from Japan that came around 16,000 years ago. It can also be said that Asian immigration to America started in 1763. In 1763, Filipino sailors abandoned ship from the Spanish ships and inhabited the New Orleans area. However, the first large-scale…