Italian diaspora

Poetry is utilized as way for people to express their feeling in a different way. There is more to it than rhythm schemes and different tones. African Americans have utilized poetry as voice because they never had one during slavery and segregation era. The Angles of Ascent: an anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry has showed their respect for the many poets that are recognized within this anthology. There are over five hundred poems that can help create a vision of what is like…

Throughout this class we have paid a significant amount attention and time on how sexual coercion altered women’s lives, socially, economically and politically. Within this paper I will be digging deeper, to examine how sexual coercion intersected with the culture of domesticity to structure the power for both African American women and men. More specifically, I will break down the political, social, economic citizenship implications that can be made towards black women and men, discussing how…

The media portrays Blacks culture as deviant. A study conducted by Ceasar (2012), focused on season 4 of The Wire and reveals the multidimensional character of African American students (p.2). Ceaser focuses on interpreting the cultural messages that perpetuate. African Americans stereotype.. According to Cesear (2012),sambo was one of the characters that symbolized African Americans as servants (p.23). The characters personality, was revealed as lazy, irresponsible, and driven to steal. The…

In February 2016, Beyonce performed a super bowl halftime show that provoked controversy all over the world through her “attacking” the police force through her lyrics and music video. Natasha Lennard, An editor from Salon Media group “Why are cops taking Beyonce’s black affirmation as an attack?” after hearing multiple police officers making the decision to boycott the halftime show. Lennard was puzzled when society began to say that Beyonce was simply being an advocate for African Americans…

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…

Physical beauty is defined as a combination of various traits and characteristics that pleases the aesthetic sense. The history of African-American hair plays an influential role in what is viewed as “good hair” in society. ”Good hair” can be shown through the cultural history of the group itself, the history of resources available, and lastly how the hair is maintained as of today. The treatment of African-Americans beginning in the six-teenth century was horrific and played an enormous…

The Black Lives Matter movement has swept the nation ever since the unjustified murdering of Trayvon Martin in 2012. During this time African Americans and other minorities were vulnerable and frightened yet came together across the world to make a drastic difference for the justice of these innocent young and old lives. This harmless phenomenon has been recently targeted as being “racist” and a “hate group” yet the whole meaning of the name and purpose is to remind everyone that black lives…

As Lois tries to decide in what language her next step shall be her family throws out suggestions such as French, German, and Italian yet no one offers up Irish as a possibility. Although they are in the middle of gorilla warfare and it may be seen as dangerous they are losing out on the opportunity to immerse themselves in the culture of Ireland. The family is Anglo Irish, once…

As the requests for Black programs in schools are increasing, so have new methods for how to teach Black history; one method that is being considered is to regress to traditional teaching styles. At the Afro-American studies conference in Atlanta, Drimmer proposed that “a track system... for Whites and Blacks, possibly with White instructors teaching the Whites and the Black instructors teaching the Blacks” would be required (441). Although this suggestion caused a turmoil among the audience, it…

Nowadays, children are growing up in homes where one parent is absent, particular the fathers and is commonly found among the African- American homes. Their absence has generated many female-headed household. African- American families consist of single-parent mothers than marriage homes with both parent and therefore cannot be recognized as a nuclear family (only truly healthy family system) because their family structure. This research is based on why African- American men are seen as absent…