Irish diaspora

Today in the United States we have a lot of interest groups all fighting for what they believe in and what they believe is true. The most influenced interest group that has personally played a role in my life is Black Lives Matter. Not only because it is the loudest and most known group fighting for their protection and safety but because in about a year I plan to join the law enforcement field and become a police officer as well. Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement, where…

Every culture is as unique as the person who lives to revel in it, explain it, and pass down it. A wise Southern Asian man, Mahatma Gandhi, stated that a “nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people,” which is especially true in Asian cultures, who cling proudly to their culture. However, Asian culture differs greatly amongst the country it originates from. It is imperative for people to recognize the significant amount of differences there are in daily rituals and…

After considering the documents I’ve been given I’ve come the conclusion that only one group really got a true positive change they wouldn’t have had before. All social groups got hit with something during the war and after the war,life for everyone changed, some more positive than others. Woman got the biggest positive change out of all social groups. Many of them began to play sports, work in factories, and in their own little way help protect the country. Much of the propaganda for the women…

In order to develop Afrocentric ideologies amongst African Americans, Malcolm X argued that Blacks needed to rethink their entire experience in the United States. Malcolm criticized the idea of desegregation in public schools, he did not believe that the integration of public schools would ensure a quality education for the Black masses. He argued that instead of integrated schools, Black children needed high quality, and well funded all Black schools, and they did not need to attend schools…

Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994. By Deborah Gray White (New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999). 13-320pp. Reviewed By Michelle Campos, September 30, 2015. Introduction Deborah G. White, the author of the book, “Too Heavy a Load,” is an American who is primarily interested in the history of African-American as well as the American women. She is essentially concerned with tackling issues related to the identities and the connection between…

The Blues: A Door for African Americans’ Identity Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues” is a well-formed poem, which reflects the painful history yet rich culture of African American people during the Harlem Renaissance. The message of the poem can be seen in the last line when the speaker says, “he slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.” (35). This implies that the musician in the poem is so passionate towards his music that only his music labels him. What I mean is if the musician stops playing…

1. Who created the visual text (photo, painting, sculpture, ad, etc)? The painting I choose to evaluate for my visual literacy assignment was created by Mr. Kevin A. Williams. 2. Take time to learn about the creator of the visual text. What did you learn about the creator? Mr. Kevin A. Williams is a well-known artist, who was born in Chicago. Mr. Williams also goes by his nickname as WAK, which is his initials spelled backwards. He started his artist career at the young age of fifteen.…

White, black and yellow are the different colors of American citizens in this country. None of us should be treated as a bad guy for no reason. In some people’s mind, different skin colors referred to different types of people, such as the white skin color is relating to the nice people. As I visited a lot of websites about news, such as New York Times and Fox News, it is hard to find any good news about African American men. Even if I find any good news about black men, most of them are…

The intense family drama arranged at some point in the 1950’s when the first suggestions of change in race relations gave rise to generational struggles between young black men and their cautiously-scarred parents. The focal point of the play’s father and son conflict that becomes a disconnection difference between Troy and Cory’s powers to have confidence in society to change the way it handles black Americans. Furthermore, Fences reveals insight into relationships between husbands and wives.…

The American experience has produced a unique struggle for African American women to produce their unique attractiveness aesthetically. In the United States, Afrocentric attractiveness standard has been picture – perfect. African American women have fashion with their own aesthetics and grow the very features that distinguished them from others. However, hair consistency is one and only, of the continuing obstacles on this journey to prompt an aesthetic that exemplifies all color, shape, size,…