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victimization? It sounds weird, but looking further into slavery you see that slaves had no legal protection. It does not cross our mind, but violence done to women and men were mandatory in maintaining their enslavement over African Americans. Chandra Greggory’s story proves the American law was constructed strictly for the elites and not to protect its…

readers understood who the poems were about because of the life experiences Dunbar had faced (Carroll). Dunbar’s poems show both sides of black lives, which include the joy and the sorrow (Laryea 11). Another way Dunbar had shown the way African Americans were treated differently was by the dialect in his poems; he used dialect to show the way white people used to view slaves and other black people. The dialect consists of incorrect spelling and usage (Dempsey). Many people did not like the way…

In modern American disclosure, there has been a lot of discussion about what race connotes and denotes. One of things about race that can be contradicting is the word “Nigger” or “Nigga.” Back in the slavery days, African Americans were described as such. That one word was used to belittle black lives to be worthless and treated unfairly. As a black woman today, I know that one word alone is like the Helen of Troy, which was “the face that launch’d a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers…

The movement campaigns against police brutality involving African Americans; it began in the wake of the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Florida Shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin. However there are number of African Americans who are pushing that the Black Lives Matter movement will also campaign against “Black on Black” crime that is rapidly destroying lives in their own neighborhoods…

Collins, in “Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and The New Racism”, gives an in-depth analysis to the constructions of Black masculinity and femininity across socioeconomic levels and within particular notable roles (eg. the athlete, the parent). While she does pay close attention to the commodification of the sexualized Black female body by Black men, and what is referred to as “black-on-black violence” especially in her chapters “Booty Call” and “Get Your Freak On”, what she…

the importance of African aesthetics as a vehicle for creating self-actualization and the healing relationship to African cosmology. She would only identify herself as a black feminist if it dealt with challenging those social ills of the African-American community that she experienced. She focuses on alternative solutions instead of attempting to resistant problems. Seneferu believe, a black feminist artist today is a woman who returns back to her African culture and reclaim herself from…

Over the course of the years that African American Studies has been a separate functioning entity, there have been different ideological and political reasons for why African American studies are needed in institutions of higher education. Scholars such as Nathan Hare, John Henrik Clark, John W. Blassingame and Devere E. Pentony have given their own varied rationales as to why they believe African American Studies is a necessity within these institutions; if it is even one at all. Each of these…

The Black Man Living in the United States, we can all agree that the states is like a mixture of different culture, different races and ethnicity. It is like a cocktail, sometimes it can feel like we don 't truly belong. Being African American, otherwise known as Black, whether it is African, Jamaican, or Haitian, that sense of belonging truly sometimes seize to exist. We live in a society where, the black man is till fighting to be recognized, accepted and belong. We often feel different,…

Slavery was taken place almost all around the world. Once slavery was over, the people of African ancestry had to face some common struggles and they still do, today. A few common struggles are racism and lack of opportunities by treating the trauma. Treating so one can overcome those struggles. Through the film Sugar Cane Alley and in the video Post Traumatic Slave Disorder by Dr. Joy De Gruy, will demonstrate how the people of African ancestry will overpass their obstacles. One of the many…

SHAPING THE INDIVIDUAL In his book In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Phillipe Bourgois presents to us several characters which will help him observe life in East Harlem and to proceed with his study. The characters which will be brought forward in this essay, are Ray, Caesar, and Primo. Bourgeois lived for several years among Puerto Ricans in East Harlem in order to render his research accurate. By bonding with the individuals he meets through his research, they open up to him…