Counting Crows

The panel is supposed to be read from right to left by the observer and is separated into three sections. The section on the far right showcases several silhouettes rejoicing after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863. Figures are dancing, a male figure is performing a musical tribute on his trumpet, and several figures are throwing their hands in the air, celebrating the freedoms that were finally being delivered to them. One of the prominent concentric circles encapsulates a piece…

in the 1900s to the 1930s. This migration of people mostly consisted of African Americans looking for a better living, where they’d have better jobs and would not be entrapped in a cycle of abuse from southern white men. This abuse consisted of Jim Crow Laws, lynching, sharecropping, and discrimination of their civil rights. When more African Americans came to the north, racial tensions deepened. Cities were becoming even more populated and jobs could be found easily in factories. This annoyed…

Data on the topic of the achievement gap were collected such as political and societal factors. The political factors included such subsets as legislative decisions, voting, and getting the right representatives in place to make the students’ concerns known. The societal factors were advancements in technology, environment, and exposure to the wrong influences. However because content analysis was used, these topics were not discussed enough to emerge into a theme (Merriam, 2009). In laymen’s…

dictates what is taught and what is silenced, what is available and what is erased (Martin & Nakayama, 2010). In 1955, the American South was run by strict laws called “Jim Crow”. These state and local laws enforced a system of white supremacy that discriminated against citizens of color in the southern United States. Jim Crow mandated racial segregation and gave African Americans “separate but equal” status in society. These rules were a continuation of the “Black Codes” which previously…

Near the end of the nineteenth century, African Americans had decided to fight for their freedom. The social and economic of the KKK racism era were deep-rooted. The power of white supremacists was extensive, most African American were afraid of any involvement within the political areas. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century African American were fighting for their rights as freed people. The Civil Rights Acts portrays how much the government did little to none for African American…

in which African Americans moved out of southern states to northern cities, and to a lesser extent to the west coast, between 1910 and 1970. According to studies on the Great Migration, the mass exodus of blacks from the South was propelled by Jim Crow policies that exacerbated the black experience of racial oppression, racial violence, and economic hardships. In other words, black migrants who fled the South did so with the belief that social and economic opportunities waited for them in…

The school-to-prison pipeline is the idea that schools funnel students of color into the prison system. This theory is narrow-minded and ignores how the government benefits from the surveillance of African Americans. With the imagery of a pipe, this complex issue is reduced to the single-minded idea that schools force people of color, most notably African Americans, into prison. It does not discuss how society has evolved to force African Americans into certain paths. The way society has evolved…

Question 4 1969 was a time where African American musicians and political organizations were fighting against the war on Black America. For example, James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone both stood up for African American rights and equality, but took very different approaches to their music and message. Political organizations also took a similar approach to black liberation. For instance, there were militant groups like The Black Panthers and nonviolent advocacy groups like the Student…

BLACK LIVES MATTER On August 11, of last year, Salt Lake City police were called to a 7-Eleven gas station on a report of a young man with a possible firearm. They spotted a man who fit the description coming out of the gas station with friends. They asked the men to get down on the ground, two subjects complied while one pleaded against the police and refused to get down. After reaching into his pocket, the officer opened fire and shot and killed 20 year old Dillon Taylor. This case sounds…

Citizen and possibly Capitalism. Both Alexander and Coates discuss U.S. history in the way it actually happened. It is important to not forget about what happened in the past, because it will make the future. So no, never talking about slavery or Jim Crow will not be beneficial to the future of our country, and not talking about those events will maintain the power held by certain individuals over everyone else. As we know, it is tradition, heritage, to destroy the black body. (Coates,…