Japanese diaspora

Stereotypes are ways we categorize certain groups of people. Growing up I’ve seen the different ways we stereotype each other, whether it’s about the colors of your skin, the way you speak, even the way we dressed, we always find ways to categorize these groups of people and judge them in a positive or negative way. In this essay, I want to talk about how the media and movies have perceived black man, and different ways the general public think about black people. One of the most common…

Blacks have become the target of the police recently, in 2015, 975 people have been killed by the police (Killed by Police Org). The different cases of police brutality, shows a need for programs in every racially populated area for African Americans to go and learn about the events that surround their race. There are cases that are very popular and have become the basis of the movement “Black Lives Matter” such as; Eric Gardner, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, these cases make it around the…

music literally looks to the past to reconnect and reinforce the connections between members of the African diaspora. It forges a connection between African descended peoples and their history through its implementation of elements of traditional African music. Furthermore, in its rejection of archetypal European standards of music, the Blues act as a unifying force within the African diaspora that is unique to African history, African music, and African people. Blues music acts as more than…

Paul, who was once called Saul, was an enemy of Christ disciples. Before he came to Christ, he persecuted the brethren in the early days of Christianity and sentenced many to death. He was also involved with the death of Stephen. Paul took permission after the death of Stephen to visit Damascus and persecute the Christians, which were located in those regions. While he was on his way to Damascus, he had an encounter with Jesus Christ, which changed his life and he then became a Christian (Acts…

“Caleb’s Crossing” and “Lose Your Mother” are both stories of young women trying to find an identity. In both stories, the women find themselves at the end of a long journey, reflecting on their discoveries during that journey. For Bethia, the journey was her entire life and she is recording its events from the time that Caleb came into her home. In Hartman’s case, she is recollecting her trip to Ghana to uncover more about the slave trade. In both books, the narrators find themselves sandwiched…

Emmitt Perry (also known as Tyler Perry) has been one of the major producers, directors and actors who have dominated this form of media, and the box office ever since his first movie debuted in 2006 (Baldwin 2012). Tyler Perry movies have become so popular because they are suppose to be incorporating African American culture, thinking and mentality as well as a message within them. Usually this message is something along the lines of faith, power, love or forgiveness. The movies are also…

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…