Afro-Latin American

The Due Process Clause within the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution, and the ruling of 2000 Supreme Court case, Troxel vs. Grantville, that parenting is a fundamental right under the constitution and that the state is prohibited from intervening in family matters. Due to this reason, it is unlawful and for any state to deny imprisoned mothers equal protection under the law (Health Issues Among, Braithewaite, 300). This intrusion, however, has been made evident by the welfare, foster care,…

Across the country, it seemed a “new Trayvon Martin” would appear on America’s television screen daily. As these high profile cases developed with a rise of Black and Brown women and men dying, Hip-Hop artists took to conscious lyrics and activism to express their dismay of America’s justice system and support for the Black Lives Matter movement. After Michael Brown’s death in 2014, J. Cole penned an open letter demanding an end to injustice stating before flying out to Ferguson’s protests: "I…

literary fiction. Alice walker’s life was life of any African American in 1940s. She was deprived of all the basic amenities and discrimination was rampant all around, which Alice later started expressing through her short stories, novel, poems etc. More than ten million copies of her books are in print." Walker has now become a focal spokesperson and symbol for black feminism and has earned critical and popular acclaim as a major American novelist and intellectual. Her work is dedicated to a…

Black Boy is an account of a young African-American boy’s thoughts and obstacles growing up in the South, whose family lives in poverty and experience constant hunger. The main character in the story is Richard Wright, who is born in 1908. Richard opens the book with a description of himself as a four-year-old boy in Natchez Mississippi, and his family’s later move to Memphis. It describes his rebellious attitude against his parents and his days spent on the streets while his mother is at work.…

What is an African man? There are so many different types of men; but what is an African man? Different philosophers and poets define an African man in many different ways. An African man is basically known to be a hunter, strong, powerful and to understand nature more than anything. An African man has endurance, patience, pride, love and hate at the same time. These qualities become visible and evident in an African man’s everyday life, depending on the environment and the situation at that…

The African America woman’s roles and beliefs have changed drastically from my grandmother’s generation in the 20s, to my mother’s generation in the 70s, to the African American woman of today. Black women in the 20s thought process was that they had to get married and have children, nothing else mattered at the time. They weren’t as worried about college or working but more in starting a family. My grandmother was born in the 20s, she was born in an era where getting married and having children…

every Black citizen must live with every day of their lives. In this system, they are socially characterized as being everything that is wrong with society. In the system, Black people are considered poor, uneducated, and criminal—all things that the American society fights against. Since their importation to the new land, Blacks have been considered to be an inferior race in the country. Over the years, this idea has manifested through laws and practices that have multigenerational effects on…

were a couple special men who don’t seem to get much recognition. The following men were W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Gunnar Myrdal. These men were all writers and activists in studying and trying to fix the American racial problem. They all three wanted better for the African American population and for them to have a better education. These men participated in different groups and organizations to accomplish the goals they had set. W.E.B. Du Bois was a man of several talents he was a…

According to the authors stated the African American middle class address the neighborhood of the Groveland community three-dimensional system through in it. The Groveland city irony high-poverty and high-crime and drug dealers’ neighborhoods in Chicago. Which presents particular challenges to the neighborhood social organization, in social organization theory, different racial problem, in these neighborhoods most burdened by noticeable drug dealing markets, crimes are characteristics of…

of years, and yet, as the world moves forward, certain things have not changed. Since the slave trade forcefully brought African slaves from Africa to America many centuries ago, America manages to still continue to oppress and cast down African Americans in the eyes of the majority within America. As time continued, black people from different countries began to file into America. From being attacked with water hoses to being sent to jail for petty crimes, black people have always had the short…