Diaspora

Through any assimilation or acculturation process, it is difficult to let go of what is important to you and the culture you come from. In both assimilation and acculturation, the minority group of individuals is being integrated into the majority group. The different between the two is that assimilation leads to the culture losing their ties and become indistinguishable with the majority culture. On the other hand, acculturation keeps the ties of their culture and making themselves distinct as…

I didn’t know that I was Black until the fifth grade. I mean, I always knew that I was Black as in the Black slash African American box I poorly shaded in every year on the CST. But, I was never truly cognizant in the ways in which the melanin in my skin differentiated me from others. During a passing period between classes, I came to a realization of my race. Like hundreds of times before, I entered the dimly lit restroom connected to the cafeteria of my elementary school; but, instead of…

Words are extremely powerful; perhaps if people understood what a single phrase can make an individual do, feel, or think, we would think not only twice but rather three or four times before we went on in speaking our minds. The United States of America symbolizes freedom; the statue of liberty located in the city of New York, is a good representation of what we as Americans are guaranteed. Freedom of speech, the right to follow any religion, and the right to love and marry whoever we want are…

What is the Africanist Aesthetic? It’s the African-based cultural forms and philosophical approach existing in the African Diaspora that continue to reflect similar musical, dance, and oral practices as those in Africa; though not African, enough resemblances in the performer's’ attitude and relationship to audience exist that cultural connections to African cultural practices are apparent. How does African culture continue to show in Hip-hop over time? Hip-Hop culture, since around the 1950s,…

Conservative estimates put well-established, dynastic African civilization as beginning nearly 5,000 years prior to the first slaves landing in North America. Perhaps the greatest injustice ever conferred onto the African diaspora in America was the large-scale insistence on minimizing the vast and bountiful history from which they originated. W.E.B Du Bois, in writing The Souls of Black Folk draws a powerful comparison between this categorical miseducation that was necessary to perpetuate…

musically skilled groups and were commercially successful. They both expressed a second-generation sentiment of ambivalence to forming a hybrid identity as Irish descendants living in England. The Pogues continually referenced the history of the Irish diaspora within a contemporary English context, while The Smiths’ works bared far fewer traces of their cultural history. This essay showed how the two bands responded to being in England from an Irish standpoint. Their respective responses,…

Through fights in the diaspora by Africans, techniques and practices were learned. They began to employ unity as their primary methodology to approach common problems. Africans excelled in organized forms of unity and action in the 20th Century. The most resourceful form of intellect is that of the form that is created, through the form of academic discussion. Black Movements in America is a book that has demonstrated both solid and credible evidence as to how and in what ways Africans used…

Song of Solomon is based on a story that Morrison heard from her maternal grandparents and it is imbued with folk myths and legends from the African Diaspora. The author draws on Afro-American legends about Africans who could fly and who used this marvellous and magical ability to escape from slavery in America. Stories about Africans who either flew or jumped off slave ships as well as those who saw…

James Baldwin is an African American writer whom always known as an activist in civil rights causes. In his short story “Stranger in the Village” he brings the point of the fiction on the black search for identity in modern. He also states the fact of how rare it was for Swiss people to see black men in their community. He writes all about his experiences and dramatic events that has shaped his life and caused him to write all about his story while he was in Switzerland. James Baldwin helped…

Karla F.C. Holloway’s has conducted many interviews, historical accounts, and personal reflection regarding African Americans lives in the United States. The book under review here, Passed on: African American Mourning Stories, examines the racial politics of the death care industry throughout the twentieth century of African Americans. Holloway demonstrates how racial injustice such as violence against African Americans and medical neglect has shaped African American’s transition between this…