Diaspora politics

For many black women style plays a part of many but, hair is the huge concept of black women beauty. On my internet survey with only 15 participants exploring if their experience of wearing weave or going natural chnge their dementor on hair. These results and findings from this study on how would they respond to the questions. Also, there are questions for the black men about women with their natural hair and their comments. Introduction There was a study conducted by…

I believe that everyone should know African American history because it is inseparable from American History, but American History traditionally has deleted African American history from its books and ignored it. African-American history is rich in art, culture, and agricultural, it’s important for us to learn who we were descended from. Africa especially those in America who don’t know about African-American history should learn about the accomplishments and social evolution of Africa-American.…

In the excerpt “Learning to Read” from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, both inclusion and exclusion within discourse communities are depicted. It can be seen within the writing itself that as a uneducated youth Malcolm was embraced within the young African American community through the use of slang and ebonics. Despite being embraced within the African community, Malcolm craved the inclusion into the educated world, however, was ostracized not only due to a different ethnic background but also…

There were many men who help gain black freedom and education, but there were a couple special men who don’t seem to get much recognition. The following men were W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Gunnar Myrdal. These men were all writers and activists in studying and trying to fix the American racial problem. They all three wanted better for the African American population and for them to have a better education. These men participated in different groups and organizations to accomplish the…

Yes I’m Black Mankind has been around for thousands of years, and yet, as the world moves forward, certain things have not changed. Since the slave trade forcefully brought African slaves from Africa to America many centuries ago, America manages to still continue to oppress and cast down African Americans in the eyes of the majority within America. As time continued, black people from different countries began to file into America. From being attacked with water hoses to being sent to jail for…

Throughout United States history, African Americans suffered through a great deal of discrimination, hate crimes, police brutality, Jim Crow laws, poverty, and hate groups. Incidents that transpired during this are not typically a part of the American school curriculum. One such example of hidden African American history was the destruction of Black Wall Street. Black Wall Street was one of the most successful black neighborhoods in American history. It all came to an end when a white mob, led…

In this day and age, statistically speaking, only fifty-two percent of black men graduate high school. Of that fifty-two percent, only about thirty-three percent of black men that go to college graduate. For those that go to college, what are the causes and factors that increase the ability to succeed? Is it mentoring? Or could it be simply being thrown to the wolves and told to survive? Furthermore, what causes this resiliency? And what causes resiliency specifically at predominantly white…

her existence? The media has and are constantly offering that African American women are either all mad, “babymamas,” or are sitting home only to collecting government assistance on the behalf of her children as her career. To better understand the diaspora of the culture of African American women in today’s society, it is lucrative to examine the past, the present, and the future of the African American woman. In the mid-1800s, she was referred to as the Mammy. The Mammy was known for nursing…

The great famine or the great hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. [1] Mainly the Irish were farmers and their major dependent was on farming but what changed the situation is the number of historical reasons. During the famine, approximately 1 million people died and a lot of them emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. [2] The famine was caused by a potato disease commonly known as…

In Netflix’s original comedy special Michael Che Matters, the comedian Michael Che sets the mood for one of his main points: racism. “Crazy time to do comedy… blacks are getting shot by cops…” (9:36). The comedian confronts this issue by exhibiting the reality of how racism is currently affecting the American culture. He begins to speak about the increase in police brutality toward African Americans. The recent police shootings of African Americans by white police officers are unjust and…