Jewish diaspora

Betrayal or Portrayal; Argumentative/Persuasive Essay Take a minute, look around the room. Is there anyone in the room of a different ethnicity? Anyone in the room a different race? As you look around the room do you feel safe? Have you watched any type of media lately? Chances are most people would feel safe in a classroom with different ethnicities or race. However, some would not. Thanks to the impact media has in today’s society, more and more people have become more afraid of African…

“Black, male, I would say intellectual, curious, fun,” This was Brandon’s response when I asked him about his identity. I met Brandon in the Undergraduate Library here on campus at 9:30 on a Thursday night. Brandon was born in Canada to two Ghanaian parents but spent a good portion of this life in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. This may have a lot to do with the way he responded to my question. Then I asked, “Would you consider yourself an American African” “Yes. I would consider myself an…

There have been many research studies on the topic of LGBT characters in media, but I decided to make my study unique by studying how they are understood by a certain cultural group. I chose Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I…

In the United States, there is in place a system of oppression that every Black citizen must live with every day of their lives. In this system, they are socially characterized as being everything that is wrong with society. In the system, Black people are considered poor, uneducated, and criminal—all things that the American society fights against. Since their importation to the new land, Blacks have been considered to be an inferior race in the country. Over the years, this idea has manifested…

For many black women style plays a part of many but, hair is the huge concept of black women beauty. On my internet survey with only 15 participants exploring if their experience of wearing weave or going natural chnge their dementor on hair. These results and findings from this study on how would they respond to the questions. Also, there are questions for the black men about women with their natural hair and their comments. Introduction There was a study conducted by…

I believe that everyone should know African American history because it is inseparable from American History, but American History traditionally has deleted African American history from its books and ignored it. African-American history is rich in art, culture, and agricultural, it’s important for us to learn who we were descended from. Africa especially those in America who don’t know about African-American history should learn about the accomplishments and social evolution of Africa-American.…

In the excerpt “Learning to Read” from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, both inclusion and exclusion within discourse communities are depicted. It can be seen within the writing itself that as a uneducated youth Malcolm was embraced within the young African American community through the use of slang and ebonics. Despite being embraced within the African community, Malcolm craved the inclusion into the educated world, however, was ostracized not only due to a different ethnic background but also…

There were many men who help gain black freedom and education, but there were a couple special men who don’t seem to get much recognition. The following men were W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Gunnar Myrdal. These men were all writers and activists in studying and trying to fix the American racial problem. They all three wanted better for the African American population and for them to have a better education. These men participated in different groups and organizations to accomplish the…

Yes I’m Black Mankind has been around for thousands of years, and yet, as the world moves forward, certain things have not changed. Since the slave trade forcefully brought African slaves from Africa to America many centuries ago, America manages to still continue to oppress and cast down African Americans in the eyes of the majority within America. As time continued, black people from different countries began to file into America. From being attacked with water hoses to being sent to jail for…

Throughout United States history, African Americans suffered through a great deal of discrimination, hate crimes, police brutality, Jim Crow laws, poverty, and hate groups. Incidents that transpired during this are not typically a part of the American school curriculum. One such example of hidden African American history was the destruction of Black Wall Street. Black Wall Street was one of the most successful black neighborhoods in American history. It all came to an end when a white mob, led…