Black Eyed Peas

self-containment. I needed to establish a connection with my black identity to achieve inner peace. While learning about concepts such as intersectionality, standpoint and muted group theory provides some closure, it was discussion with family and friends that helped in solidifying my identity. The entity that gave me the courage to emerge myself in my blackness was the Black Lives Matter movement. The individuals within the…

small, rural town of Humboldt, Tennessee. Hicks described Humboldt as a blue collar town, where everyone knew each other and knew each other’s business. While Hicks lived in Humboldt, the population of the town was equally split between whites and blacks, and Hicks went to school at the beginning of the racial integration process. Hicks was born into a “dirt poor” family with four other siblings. At the age of 12, Hicks and his siblings were put into foster care when his mother and stepfather…

History of The Middle Ages by Barbara Rosenwein will be utilized, concentrating on the passages regarding towns and cities, the crusades, norman conquest, education, courtly culture and trade from the period of the High Middle Ages and the events of the Black Death, Hundred Years’ war and social upset as it relates to the Late Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages was a time of…

It wasn’t until I came to ISU that I was around a large racially diverse population. I wouldn’t necessarily say that I was uncomfortable, it was just kind of a culture shock. I would argue the same thing for Asians, Hispanics, etc… It is not just black people, we all have stereotypes about all different kinds of races. E. The biggest thing for me would just be trying to stay unbiased. I am going into education, so this is going to be huge for me. I likely will never come into this exact…

three different studies that specifically focused on black women to determine the common stress and stressors they experience in their workplace. Researchers conducted various tests to come to an understanding of what causes the stressors and what coping strategies the women used to handle them. Study one; “Black women and how they cope with stress”, is a qualitative study done by researchers that used many focus groups to collect data from black women. This study evaluated what exactly it is…

Comprehension: What is involuntary experimentation and give 2-3 examples of how Black people were subjected to multiple forms of involuntary experimentation, both during slavery and after. Golash-Boza writes, “Sims repeatedly sewed up Anarcha’s vagina, yet it became infected every time and he had to painfully reopen the wounds. sim knew about anesthesia but refused to administer it to Anarcha or to the tend other women … Rather than treating the men for syphilis, the PHS doctors used the study…

Blues artists have historically represented a politically aware approach to artistic expression as it is rooted in slave songs. Rap music serves as a contemporary version of this as it too stems from African traditions such as black vernacular. Both of these genres of music use african retentions to maintain the spirit of their culture prior to their enslavement, recalling a time when they were free. The elements they incorporate from their past are a reminder to their communities that they are…

concept of the United States after he learned the police officer who shot Michael Brown would not be imprisoned. Coates wanted to explain to his son through this book that the fear and discomfort that he was beginning to feel was typical for the black community due to the social, historical, and economic context America had forced upon them. He drew primarily from his own experiences in his writing; however he also drew from the stories of others, from history, and from current events. Although…

Persuasion is a tactic used by abolitionist writers to persuade their audience that dehumanizing another human being based on their skin color, is wrong. From the story “The Quadroons”, one thing that differentiates Lydia Maria Child from other abolitionist writers is that she uses fiction and pathos, and not your typical non-fiction narrative, to persuade her predominately white audience that discrimination is, in fact, unethical. In the story, one sees Child use of an interracial couple’s…

songs: “King Kunta”, “The Blacker the Berry” and “Complexion (A Zulu Love).” Kendrick Lamar’s album, To Pimp a Butterfly” is more than just a generic album for listening pleasure, but a symbol of black resistance and protest that addresses the negative impact of racist and oppressive institutions on black identity in the 21st…