American psychologists

Organizations like the National American Woman Suffrage Association (comprised entirely of white women that denied membership to Black Women) drafted and pressured congress to pass the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919, granting all women the right to vote,” (Malik, "4 Reason Feminism is a Threat to Black…

of interracial relationships are disrespectful. This feeling and thought originated in the 1900s when slavery was at an all-time high. In early America, during slavery white slave owners would rape the African American women and somehow it would be the woman’s fault. As far as African American men, if they as so much glanced at a white woman they would be brutally beat or so much as even killed. However, as times have changed, society has come to grips with the thought of individuals dating and…

The deaths of many unarmed African Americans by police has ignited a nationwide debate on racial disparities in the United States. Many people think we have a race issue, but what if the problem was beneath our conscious awareness. This issue is a psychological issue that everybody possess called implicit bias. “Implicit Biases are automatic attitudes or stereotypes that can influence our beliefs, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner” (Weir 1). Due to their implicit biases, Police…

by saying I was surprised by the readings and radio broadcasts about interracial marriage but it did not necessarily surprise me. I think it should not matter at all but my family was disowned because my grandfather, a white man, married a Native American woman. It made me sad to hear the woman discussing how her father cut her out of his life because of who she loved and married. Although my family is not racist, my father was while we were younger so when my sisters would date people of any…

States. Due to the 15th Amendment in 1869, African Americans were no longer denied voting rights based off their skin color. In 1954, in the Brown v. Board of education case, the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all laws allowing segregation and discrimination in public locations based off skin color, race, religion, or national origin; including the Jim Crow Laws. The first African American, Barak Obama was inaugurated as president of the…

Francis Cecil Sumner was an African American psychologist who rose to intellectual prominence in the early 1900s. His passion for civil rights paved the way for educational reform that made receiving a college education more attainable for African American students. He changed the future demographic of psychologists, and stood up for racial equality in a time of segregation and hostility. His primary psychological focus pertained to race and religion. In 1911 Francis Cecil Sumner was accepted…

If you are looking to get personal, honest, and relevant insight on racism in America, Citizen: An American Lyric is the perfect book to read. Citizen: An American Lyric was published in 2014 by poet Claudia Rankine. This book is a compilation of poems, essays, and visual art to give the reader a closer look of what it is like being black in America. The book is written in seven sections which are all similar in style and content. With each section giving different stories, microaggressions,…

of living as an African American in some of his writing, including being defined as and by his race. In his excerpt “Racial Identities”, Kwame Anthony Appiah describes the struggles of living under modern racial stereotypes, suggesting that racially charged social identities can have detrimental effects on one’s individuality and one’s ability to be a functioning member of society. African Americans do not all share the same identity. Appiah states that African Americans “do not have a single…

backgrounds can affect how issues of racism can be interpreted and misinterpreted. He argues that European Americans often view racism through a screen of “whiteness,” the excuse that color does not matter in this world and everyone has equal opportunity, when in reality oppression still exists and events of racism in the world have not ceased. The audience for this article is most likely African American people because most of the background information is directed towards their culture and the…

The experiment was designed and carried out by Kenneth and Mamie Clark, two certified psychologists. They performed a simple, yet enlightening experiment which displayed obvious effects segregation had on young African American children. Kenneth Clark had four identical dolls with only one difference, the skin color of the dolls. Two of the dolls had light skin colors, while the other two had darker skin…