American psychologists

their lives due to racial injustices and inequality. Although slavery ended 150 years ago, and segregation ended around 51 years ago, the relationship between African Americans and whites have steadily been filled with injustice and oppression. In Brownies by ZZ Packer, is a story about a younger group of girl scouts (one African American group and one Caucasian group) campers who has a slight experience with racism. At the end of the story, the narrator, Laurel (also known as Snot) says, “There…

Happened to the American Dream? “The U.S worked hard to create the American dream of opportunity. Joseph Stiglitz a Nobel prize recipient and an economic professor at Columbia University said, but today that dream is a myth”(Picchi). The “American Dream” is a concept used to describe the American lifestyle. The idea of the American Dream has been imbedded in our heads as the ultimate goal and definition of success. The media, the T.V shows and the books push it in our head what our American…

late February of 2011, after residents of Soho felt highly offended by an ad Life Always placed at the intersection of Sixth Ave. and Watts St. The billboard featured a young, innocent looking, African American girl with a quote stated above her picture: “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” Life Always, an anti abortion organization from Texas, defended their billboard by stating, “The intent of the board is to call attention to the tragedy and the truth that…

study, researchers used digital span testing to assess memory problems associated with schizophrenic African Americans. The digital span testing involves schizophrenic individuals to repeat a series of digits forward or in reverse order. Culture also plays an important role in diagnosing and evaluating African-Americans. For instance, cultural mistrust result in misdiagnoses in African-American. According to the low mistrust group, psychiatric symptoms negatively affected digital span…

Dark Girls discusses colorism and structural racism. Many personal experiences are recounted by African-American women, discussing the pressures from strangers, peers, and even family to be light-skinned. An experiment also showed a little girl selecting the drawing of a white girl for the positive traits (beauty, intelligence) and the darkest girl for the negative traits. A psychologist highlights the fact that colorism is not predispositioned; rather, societal pressures like the media…

Harry Briggs apart of the school board was charged with violating the Equal Rights Protection Clause under the fourteenth amendment. It was during this case that a child psychologist performed a test and evaluated children to see the detrimental effect it had on children. Dr. Kenneth Clark found from his doll study that African American children were more likely to play with the white doll compared to the darker toned one. When asked why it was because they thought the doll had a prettier skin…

“Since 1982, Americans’ personal savings rate has dropped from 11% to below zero, and personal bankruptcy filings have reached record highs. (American Consumerism).” This could be because everything in our culture has a brand on it. According to psychologists, advertisers are becoming more innovative and somewhat intrusive. “Advertisements used to appear exclusively in magazines and newspapers…

Influential in his Times: Barack H. Obama “Yes we can.” It is the one phrase which propelled Barack Obama to the helm of being the first African-American president of America. Racism has been a serious problem in America since time immemorial. However, the election of Barack Obama as president brought hope to a country which cherishes values such as liberty and justice for all. Obama’s rise to presidency led to a revolution which seemed to be of black against white. The path to the United…

Mat Mathews Dr. Thomas Aiello AFAM 4232 11 February 2016 Manliness and Civilization The book Manliness and Civilization by Gail Bederman was very interesting. Bederman argues that race, gender, and power played a huge role in defining the discourse of civilization. She shows that people used the ideas of race, gender and power in different ways to show that their group was better and more civilized then other groups. She also argues that race and gender have to be studied together rather than…

transforming the research agenda of Scholar working on the history of Afro-American. Wilson, an eminent Sociologist spent most of his career confronting one of the nation’s most perplexed topic: namely the deep and highly persistent inner city poverty in America. In this both highly acclaimed yet highly controversial book Wilson theorizes that the significance of race is waning, it therefore follows that among African Americans, ‘class’ was comparatively more important in terms of determining an…