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As a minority, living in a world surrounded by racism and stereotypes can be very difficult to face. Many males believe that to become accepted by society, they must possess typical masculine qualities. According to modern culture these traits include strength, defiance, and assertiveness. These characteristics, however, are misrepresentations of black masculinity, and should not be a factor when defining men. A perfect example of how inequality deeply affects social interaction and developing…

His study documents the process of that development, which he divides into three distinct eras: from 1900 to 1940, from 1941 to 1960, and from 1960 through the civil rights years and beyond. The first period incorporates the years of the great migration of southern blacks to the larger cities of the North and East. Noting that this period also witnessed a diffusion of many of those migrants to outlying areas around those cities, areas that meet the geographical, if not the sociological,…

A Way Around Single stories bring many different people, religions, cultures, and many other things in unfamiliar perspectives. Some of those are bad and some are even worse. The single story is like judging a book by a cover and not even reading it just by the look of the cover. In this case, Brent Staples, an African-American male, in his essay “Just Walk on By” has been repeatedly labeled as intimidating, dangerous, a criminal, and many more things with in his surroundings. The strategies he…

Killen and deBeer state that “theological reflection involves bringing our religious heritage, in this case the Christian heritage, into our reflection on experience done from the standpoint of exploration.” (Killen pg. 52) My ability to reflect upon my personal experiences, good and bad, as an African American woman in ministry have helped develop my interpretation of the study of the nature of God and religion. These same experiences help to shape my understanding of theology, my methods,…

With my return to the Peach State, Georgia, returned all of my concerns about my race. Being an only child had deleterious effect on me while I lived in Nashville. I was so keenly aware of my race again that it started to affect my socializing. All of my friends in High School were White after I returned. They were the only ones that I could get along with socially, but they noticed that I did not behave like other Black people. One of my friends, Derek, told me that he liked hanging around me…

Just Walk On By My old English Teacher used to say, “Don’t assume things because you make an ass out of u and me.” The author, Brent Staples, gave his account of how what it is like to be a black man in this world of so-called equality. I agree with his statement our own race frightens us. Mass Media rubs it in our faces that Minorities are the leaders in gang violence, rapes, muggings, robbery, grand theft auto, and the majority of crimes in the cities and towns that either house us or are…

Police Brutality is something that we have become unfortunately familiar with in this day and age. Many websites, newspaper articles, and news broadcasts educate the public on these reoccurring events. Many protests quickly follow these reports as people are outraged on these never ending incidents. Most of these incidents are due to racial discrimination and almost all are towards the Black population in America. In Praying for Sheetrock, we learn about McIntosh County in Georgia and the…

Literacy is a fundamental skill that all people, regardless of race or social class, need to develop in order to convey ideas and communicate them intellectually. But two hundred years ago, learning to read and write was not a privilege. During this time, and even today, many factors play a role in determining the difficulty of reaching literacy, such as the time period a person lived and where, the color of their skin, and even what determined or denied their basic rights as human beings could…

Martin Luther King and Simone De Beauvoir have few things in common; King being a prominent Baptist Minister and activist in the African American Civil Rights Movement and Beauvoir being an advocate for feministic philosophers and feminist theories. While it seems like they would come from opposite ends of any spectrum and lived overlapping lives in time, their biggest collective commonality was that they both were face with oppressions in their time. Simone du Beauvoir being faced with being a…

African American women have been faced with severe discrimination and challenges when it comes to getting favorable roles on television shows and movies. In 2013, African Americans played in only 13 percent of roles in film (Crigger and Santhanam, 1). Women are fighting for representation on television and in movies every day, and it is rare to see an African American woman with a role that is not considered offensive. Men do not have a problem getting favorable roles for any type of film.…