Japanese diaspora

An epidemic that has plagued much of the African American community is the reliance on athleticism as a channel for upward social mobility. There has been little emphasis placed on academic achievement because it is considered too much work; the low expectations already set for African Americans to succeed academically only diminish their pursuit (Semyonov & Yuchtman-Yaar, 1981). Several things are thought to be correlated with social mobility in sports for African Americans. Some examples…

Black American is a term used in describing a very diverse group of people in American nation. In American society Black Americans tend to be bi-cultural as they adapt other dominating culture so as to acquire high education and social status. This paper will illustrates the differences between Washington, du Bois and Garvey in the way that they envisage the future position of Black Americans in the American nation. In drawing the discussion it will further explain the differences in the context…

Intersectionality is describing the system of inequality people experienced due to their intersecting statuses including race, class, gender, sexuality and so on. The discriminations or advantages they face are the result of the mixture of their multiple statuses. For example, for a black woman, her gender is female and her race is African American, so she experiences discrimination for being black and female simultaneously. For African Americans, they face social stratification, and therefore…

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,…

Blacks from the injustices they faced on a regular basis. In fact, Howard University is where Coates learned about the diversity of the black population. “The history, the location, the alumni combined to create the Mecca, the crossroads of the black diaspora.” The Mecca was a gathering places for Blacks across the country. Blacks were not forced into a bubble where it is them against the white masses. However, the Mecca became a means of escape that many blacks were not provided through the…

The book Mojo workin’: The old African American Hoodoo system was written by Katrina Hazzard-Donald. Hazzard-Donald (2013) is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Rutgers University-Camden. Hazzard-Donald’s book explored the African American cultural tradition of hoodoo. Subsequently, Hazzard-Donald argued that the tradition of hoodoo emerged from a range of different African ethnic cultures brought together as a result of enslavement during the Trans…

Alice Walker is the author of many great works. Her short-story “Everyday Use” is a strong work based on the themes of heritage, tradition, and sisterhood. With this book, she shows the struggle of African-Americans within themselves. Heritage is the most important theme in this story. In the beginning paragraphs, readers learn that Mama and Maggie lived in a more rural area. Mama explains in the first paragraph that her front yard felt like an extension to her living-room, which means she took…

Throughout the civil rights movement, African Americans received no respect for decades and decades, no matter if you were old or young, man or a woman. Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspirational speaker sticking up for what was right. While dealing with the same disrespect all Negroes were receiving. During the civil rights movement King spoke out his hopes and wishes for the world, hoping to change the ways of many. By using appeals to logic and emotion, it helped people understand Kings work…

In his essay, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space”, Brent Staples uses the rhetorical strategies of anecdote and diction in order to convey his message that due to racial discrimination black people (mainly men) have to change the way they naturally conduct themselves in public for they run the risk of something terrible happening to them. Staples uses anecdotes to bring in the personal side of the message to the audience. Staples creates a persona of innocence…

Kate Chopin’s Desiree's Baby is a short story that depicts the life of a wealthy ‘Creoles’(White descendants of French settlers in Louisiana) in antebellum Louisiana. Consequently, the story describes some of the darker tendencies of ignorance and bigotry, as well as drawing a cruel image of the treatment of slaves in racist America from a time long ago. In addition, desiree's Baby was written during a time where political satire was needed the most as an ocean of change threatened the status…