Afro-Eurasia

The media portrays Blacks culture as deviant. A study conducted by Ceasar (2012), focused on season 4 of The Wire and reveals the multidimensional character of African American students (p.2). Ceaser focuses on interpreting the cultural messages that perpetuate. African Americans stereotype.. According to Cesear (2012),sambo was one of the characters that symbolized African Americans as servants (p.23). The characters personality, was revealed as lazy, irresponsible, and driven to steal. The…

Katrina took place in 2005 , resulting in the deaths of approximately 1800 people, mostly impacting the African American community (Kim Ann Zimmerman 2015). Lennard also gives examples lyrics of the song, “ I like my baby hair, with baby hair and afros” and “ I just might be a black Bill Gates in the making” to show not only black pride but to empower other African Americans to be happy with themselves. She uses sarcasm by saying that Beyonce’s “Attack” was a simple reference to American police…

I didn’t know that I was Black until the fifth grade. I mean, I always knew that I was Black as in the Black slash African American box I poorly shaded in every year on the CST. But, I was never truly cognizant in the ways in which the melanin in my skin differentiated me from others. During a passing period between classes, I came to a realization of my race. Like hundreds of times before, I entered the dimly lit restroom connected to the cafeteria of my elementary school; but, instead of…

The Black Lives Matter movement has swept the nation ever since the unjustified murdering of Trayvon Martin in 2012. During this time African Americans and other minorities were vulnerable and frightened yet came together across the world to make a drastic difference for the justice of these innocent young and old lives. This harmless phenomenon has been recently targeted as being “racist” and a “hate group” yet the whole meaning of the name and purpose is to remind everyone that black lives…

Imagine growing up with 19 siblings and being the youngest of your entire crazy family. Of course it’s going to be arguing, sisters stealing clothes, or fighting about who gets to use the bathroom first. It’s also when your older sibling hit you too hard and try to bribe you to get you to shut up or stop crying before you can go tell mom. For instance, when I was five, my siblings and I always argued; whether it was from them stealing my fruit snacks or me going into their room when they weren’t…

that is being considered is to regress to traditional teaching styles. At the Afro-American studies conference in Atlanta, Drimmer proposed that “a track system... for Whites and Blacks, possibly with White instructors teaching the Whites and the Black instructors teaching the Blacks” would be required (441). Although this suggestion caused a turmoil among the audience, it brought up an unmentioned viewpoint to the Afro-American subject: “blacks and whites bring various levels of awareness and…

Nowadays, children are growing up in homes where one parent is absent, particular the fathers and is commonly found among the African- American homes. Their absence has generated many female-headed household. African- American families consist of single-parent mothers than marriage homes with both parent and therefore cannot be recognized as a nuclear family (only truly healthy family system) because their family structure. This research is based on why African- American men are seen as absent…

Since September of 2015, I’ve been interning with the Quaker-based, non-violent, social justice group, the American Friends Service Committee. During this time, I’ve learned so much about myself, as well as Kansas City’s youth. I’ve helped organize a city-wide high school poster art project and a poetry workshop of the same — giving students a platform to speak out on social issues. This consisted of conducting interactive lecture style classes in Kansas City metro schools such as Paseo,…

Ever since the early years of America, black men and women have been the victims of numerous cases of racial discrimination and hatred. Conditions eventually changed as African Americans were able to win equal rights. Today, we even have an African American elected as president of the United States. However, this journey was never easy, as shown through the events of “Black Boy”, an autobiography written by Richard Wright. Richard Wright was an African American man, born after the Civil War, but…

Introduction: Thesis statement: The Media’s portrayal of African American’s is racially biased, reinforcing the misconception that people of colour in the United States are inferior to those of other ethnicities and perpetuating self-hate within the African American community. Divided Topic: African Americans are criminals. They are the most dangerous race in all of the United States. African Americans are unintelligent in comparison to White Americans. African Americans are unattractive…