Diaspora politics

have a clear and accurate picture of two things. The first, is how little is covered in many African American Studies or Black Studies courses and textbooks in the United States. The second is that the focus primarily on the slave trade or forced diaspora of Africans is relatively recent in the history of Africans and the history of organized society. Critical Review of Scholarship: In this paper, citation will be based on such titles such as Towards an Intellectual History…

In the 1800’s there was a power struggle for ethnic and gender equality for people of African descent. Enslaved Africans or slaves taken from Africa and African Americans sought out to gain the same natural rights: life, liberty, and property which were given to people of European descent. After slavery was banned throughout the United States Africans gained the freedom and rights of a European “man”, such as voting and right to property, but what about intellectually? What rights were Africans…

Through out American history black bodies were subjected to negativity, Ta-Nehisi Coates states his beliefs and the conditions of the black body in the New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me. Coates writes about the racist and violent acts that African Americans endured in America. Present day, people do not feel that racism exist, but the tales of murdered black bodies suggest otherwise. Black bodies are being destroyed and their destroyers are being left unpunished. Coates…

African Americans were not welcome in white schools in the 1950’s. The schools were under segregation at the time so black people were not allowed in the same schools as white people. In Melba Beal’s book, she explained to us what she went through as a black student in a white school. She was a leader in the movement against segregation. At this time in history, African Americans didn’t understand what real freedom and justice were. They knew that they were not treated the same way as…

What happened during the Armenian genocide still today affects those who survived that horrific experience and even the family members of those victims who didn’t make it through and of those who did survive the genocide. The reason for the genocide was that the Ottomans believed that the Armenians were a problem in Turkey ands they needed to get rid of them in order to save Turkey and also because they were non-Muslim and believed them to be second-level and this is what led to the mass murder…

the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Reading quotes such as the one stated above and realizing that this is reality can be very alarming. People throughout the Diaspora may believe that they were never oppressed but, the honest truth is that they are and have been their whole life. Their reality is just a delightful version of the harsh actuality that their ancestors had to undergo. They are in fact being…

Cultural Competency Guidelines Cross Model of Psychological Nigrescence The Black identity models are the models that I would most likely apply to myself. Specifically, I would utilize the Cross model of psychological nigrescence (the process of becoming Black). The Cross model was first developed during the civil rights era and contains a five-stage process in which Blacks in the United States move from a White frame of reference to a more positive Black frame of reference (Sue & Sue, 2016)…

I identify as an African American woman. Being a woman as well as a minority are the two most distinctive factors of my cultural identity. There is little known knowledge of my ancestors pass on both sides of my family. I assume my ancestors came from Africa. Before this assignment I have given little thoughts to the roots of my ancestry. It was not a topic greatly discussed in my families. The way they entered the United States does have an influence on my culture. My ancestors made the new…

What would I do to improve the image of the black male? What will I do to improve the image of the black male? Well , since I am a black male myself, I will do my best to improve the image of black males. But first let me tell you how African American males are badly represented. Regardless , if we believe in ourselves or not. Most people just believe the stereotype that they see on television. Black males are slandered on all forms of media. Very rarely do you see the good things…

Policing & Society - Assessment 2 This essay is based on Police brutality, where we will explore specific aspects of its complex and unfortunate nature. The original question to answer, in this essay has since been altered for a better attempt to conduct research, and so the modified question we ask in this essay is “Why does Police brutality occur in the United States of America (U.S) and, is it more common amongst the African American (black) community that live there?.”. For better…