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Black Studies is a discipline that surrounds the matters on racial issues and identity politics to alleviate the pressures of Western education and culture. However, it is considerably non-inclusive of the ideologies which surround Black Women’s Studies and Black Queer Studies. According to Johnson and Henderson (as cited in Story, 2008), “Black women’s institutional work as well as their intellectual interventions in black studies departments remained understudied, devalued, or marginalized by…

1960’s, early 70’s a movement was emerged that called the Black Arts Movement (BAM). The Black Arts Movement was created in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka, considered the father of the Black Arts Movement. This national movement was initiated after the assassination of Malcom X. Many well-known writers were involved with the movement including: Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou, and Larry Neal. Many may considered the Black Arts movement to be compared to the Women Suffrage…

color of their skin. Black lives matters have been involved in many protests that help other people in the society realize that there shouldn 't be a world with black racism. This organization has been started all over the country and is a movement where people gather around and rally for the rights for black lives. The deaths of black lives by law enforcement due to racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States justice system is not acceptable. Black lives…

confidence and struggle for black identity led to a new widespread celebration of blackness. The Ebony magazines from the 1970’s featured advertisements that declared a new “Beautiful Black.” The May issue in 1970 encouraged both black men and women to embrace their natural beauty. For example, some commercials displayed black men and women with afros, showcasing their natural hair instead of straightening it out. One article even wrote of a beauty queen, Miss “Black America,” who proudly wore…

In the United States, there is in place a system of oppression that 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…

between the times of 1900 into the 1960’s, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. The Chicago Renaissance started after the migration of African Americans from the South, this migration brought thousands of African Americans to Chicago where they could begin contributing to the city by themselves through visual and performing arts, literature, and music. The name Chicago Black Renaissance is also known as The Black Chicago Renaissance. The Black Chicago Renaissance gained its name due to the…

institutional racism have forced African Americans to seek alternatives that would empower them to fulfill their highest potential. As a result, the Black Nationalist ideology emerged as a response to the economic exploitation and political abandonment endured by the people of African descent throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though Black Nationalism developed in the United States it is not a unique phenomenon. In every part of the world, the belief that a people who share a…

in a changing political economy where survival for many U.S. Blacks seems less of an issue, since no uniform, homogeneous culture of resistance ever existed among U.S. Blacks, and such a culture does not exist now. The reasons for this is black people being segregated they have loss a sense of nationalism. Thus it has affected their behavior and the way they think of working collectively against inequality. Individualism in the black community has become a way of life. Making it challenging to…

we have gotten in the habit of making movies based upon the past and the negativity it may have caused. Well recently disney made a movie called “ Black Panthers” it is a great action movie but it’s not what the “Black Panthers” movement was about. A currently today political activist Robert George a.k.a “ Bobby” Seale is the co-founder of the black panthers. Currently 81, he was born October 22, 1936, and graduated from Merritt college. While attending college, he joined the Afro-American…

Black theology is a theology of liberation which pushes back against the theology of academia which says nothing about racial injustice, and the oppression of economic privilege. James Cone a brilliant theologian and architect of black theology provides a theological perspective for elevating the oppressed by clearly articulating that the God of the Bible is a God of liberation. Cone in this book Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation offers an assortment of essays some…