Armenian diaspora

Opening scene police siren in the background streaks of blood crawl across the street, next to a cold lifeless body full of bullet holes. The body was a young African American teenager who had just been shot. The camera pans around the crime scene to reveal a unidentified hand picking up a bullet casing. The camera then turns to a group of African American girls no more than ten years old outside, at god knows what time witnessing I am sure a traumatizing event. After that you here a voice from…

Until recently, I have not given much thought into what career I wanted to pursue when I go to college. I was given a set of questions that asked what accomplishments I wanted to fulfill and what jobs I would consider doing. As I wrote down my responses it was clear to me that I have a passion involving my culture and the history behind it. I soon discovered that there was a career specifically designed for what I was interested in and I wanted to learn more about it. For my paper I decided to…

Her father was studying law in Tokyo, Japan. A young and ambitious man, at the age of 25, he sailed to the United States with hope of making enough money to continuing his education, and becoming an American Lawyer. Her father, young and naive, would soon learn that the land of opportunities, was hard and racist. He would find himself working many different type of jobs, to include: laying ties for the railroad, field work in eastern Washington, working on ships as a cook, and laboring in a…

difficult circumstances by use of strong rhythms, symbols and dance, similar to affliction cults. Sonny was purified as he was initiated and healed. In Turner’s final state of reincorporation Sonny finds a sense of “coolness,” a key element of African diaspora. He finds a harmonious life with himself as well as others through his musical performance. The narrator explains his healing by saying, “Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would…

Among the Greco-Roman marble buildings on the National Mall stands a unique building. Three bronze pyramidal tiers rise from the base, and tour over museumgoers. The distinctive architecture of the National Museum of African American History and Culture is inspired by the three-tiered crown motif portrayed in Yoruban art. Within the museum, artifacts are displayed over five floors of galleries. The exhibits are placed in chronological order, the basement addressing the early beginnings of the…

This last essay aims to shed some light on the issue of rioting and urban violence in American cities and the role it played in shaping the public opinion on race relations. This essay will use the discussion from class and the article by Melissa Hickman Barlow to achieve soundness while addressing the issue of urban violence. Rioting and urban violence are ways for individuals to show their opposition to government policies or practices. During the Civil Right Movement in America, there were…

Afrofuturism is a future we all image. Afrofuturism is a movement, a voice of the new generation, the end of white-supremacist, an opening of the mind with the desire to connect to our disowned self. Why do I say “disowned self”? Because we live in a world influenced by whitewashed movie and books, ever since we were young we were taught that a reliable image of a manager or a doctor is a Caucasian lady smiling. We were taught that being skinny like Fashion TV models is the definition of…

The portrayal of African Americans in the film industry is pretty different from what they were in the past. Compared to our society, the portrayals of African Americans in the past were negative. Since one of Hollywood’s main goals as time progressed was to make films that are more relatable, the films had to follow the specific trend that was going on in that time. Many films followed the lifestyles of individuals living in antebellum South. The only roles available for African Americans in…

Andrea Burns book From Store Front to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement is a fascinating interpretation of the development of the African- American Museums. Her argument that in order to understand the development of African- American Museums it is important to first look at where these museums were built and the goals in which the embodied; “Understanding the origins of this evolution helps us contextualize and historicize black public history, from its modest…

People set forth on a new journey for exploring unknowns, and a journey could always help them in knowing what they want inwardly. François Villon and Matsuo Bashō have gained tremendous inspirations while travelling/exiling, and both of them hope to be free spiritually. However, they do have various different altitudes since they are from different cultures and have different religious beliefs. But to some extent, Villon and Bashō have the same value towards death. From François Villon’s poems,…