Afro-Eurasia

AbstractAbstract To secure confidentiality, the client in the study will be referred to as Josh J. Josh J. is a 13-year-old black male. While doing this case study, the researcher found several theories and concepts to be of help to describe the development of the 13-year-old client. The theories that were of focus in this case study are; James Marcia’s ego identity statuses, Morris Rosenberg’s model of identity, and James Fowler’s stages of developmental faith. The concepts discussed are…

The whole narration is written informally as the narrator describes the events he went through in the course of a few years. As if indicating his comparatively high level of education compared to other African Americans, the narrator uses sophisticated diction that exposes his level of knowledge. However, when he describes conversations with African Americans, he uses colloquial diction of African American English (Black English) to characterize the characters and enhance the understanding of…

Allan M. Brandt wrote this article, “Racism and Research: The Case Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study” to assert the Tuskegee Study in a historical context and he wanted to relate it to the ethical implications that were seen in the twentieth century. The syphilis study that is being talked about was a study that included 400 syphilitic black men. There was also another 200 black men that were unaffected and served as a control. The issue that Brandt reveals is that when penicillin, the drug…

Initially, the article and the poem both talk about the pain that the African American people had to go through. In the poem Du Bois talks about the suffering of the African Americans and says, “I am the smoke king /I am black …/I am the thought of the throbbing mills; /I am the soul of the soul-toil kills, /Wraith of the ripple of trading rills;” (Du Bois). This quote is extremely important because there are many point which he talks about; first is the word “smoke” which, is talking about…

Greg Tate’s Flyboy 2 is a collection of African American works about music, culture, and more designed to illustrate important themes within the Black society. The main themes that Tate examines throughout his work involves the discussion of race, identity, and gender in a minority race within American society. The writings composed in the novel entail historic accounts, such as Michael Jackson’s struggle in society to Ice Cube’s perspective on rap and its influence in African American culture.…

Spirituality in Music Music is powerful and holds grave importance for culture and daily life. Creators of such art express all forms of human emotions, from lived realities to imaginary, and futuristic ideals. More than often, people are able to create their best work when they have experienced much. Looking at Dubois’s sorrow songs section in The Souls of Black Folk, and songs from Solange’s A Seat at The Table album and Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book mixtape, the power of music with…

If the characters in Dead Poet 's Society had watched Half Nelson or other movies like it that stereotype African-American youth, urban schools, and the communities in which both reside; their elitist, predominately white surroundings at Welton Academy would not have given them any reason to negate those myths. The students, parents, and school administrators/faculty in Dead Poet 's Society would most likely conclude that urban, African American youth are thugs and drug dealers who dress like…

Agree ‘em To Death and Destruction Ralph Ellison’s short story “Battle Royal” illustrates the pessimistic and ultimately futile nature of Black resistance to institutional oppression. The text utilizes the perspective of the Black narrator to convey the overt as well as subtler forms of violence perpetrated by white society. Paragraph 60 utilizes the language of the M.C. to demonstrate the subtle ways in which relations of power are constructed between racial groups. The repetition of the word…

When discussing the movement of Black Consciousness or African Consciousness one has to identify as Black or African which are defined differently depending on a person’s individual understanding of black history. Many people say, “knowing your history doesn’t matter”, and “history should be forgotten, if it is something that continuously evokes painful emotions”. However, others believe that it is vital to know and love one’s self and one’s culture. It is believed that this is important not…

Collins purpose is to construct an analysis of the underlying connections between Black sexual politics and the new racism. These analyses include, “a set of ideas and social practices shaped by gender, race, and sexuality that frame Black men and women’s treatment of one another, - perceived and treated by others” (Collins p.7). Collins distinguishes the differences between those illustrations by providing the historical context followed by empirical and conceptual studies that offer a…