Jewish diaspora

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you” this African proverb highlights the issue in which individuals constantly find themselves where their identity becomes threatened. Dorrinne Kondo expresses this idea in an excerpt from her book, Crafting Selves titled “On Being A Conceptual Anomaly”. Dorinne Kondo is a Japanese American Professor who research in Tokyo, but due to her place of work not being move-in ready,she was offered to stay with native Japanese family in…

In the poem Ode to the only Black Kid Class, the author who is Clint Smith, uses many forms of literary terms. Speaking of the author, Clint Smith is an African American writer, teacher, and Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University. He also won the Poetry Slam Competition. In the poem Smith uses literary terms such as metaphors, similes, and allusion to question or challenge the racial divisions. Smith uses allusion by referring the only black kid in class to the famous case which was Brown vs…

Gawain Powell E.A.1.1 What does culture mean to you? When people say culture, what do you say? How do you respond? Do you say the color of your skin? Do you say your race? Or are you actually defining your culture! Well let me tell you my culture. When people say Gawain what your culture? I usually respond with black. I mean at the end of the day i'm just a regular black kid who wants a better life than the one he has now. But my culture is a little obvious. My culture is food, the…

How you’re raised can impact the way you view the world. The authors of these three short stories, “Thank You Ma’am” “King of the Bingo Game” and “Am I Blue?”, are African American. All three of them were raised in a society where, to a lot of people, being African American wasn’t a good thing. African American’s were called horrible things, and were still being discriminated against, but some communities were close, and others were not. This affected how they saw the world, and the way they…

Between the early 1900’s up until present day, African immigrants ventured into the U.S. as refugees, students, merchants and so many other categories. Africans were filled with optimism, and maintained hope for an opportunity, that often weren’t afforded to them within their native countries. Several Africans were here to take advantage of American capitalistic culture, and achieve financial success through knowledge of trade and networking. However, even with capitalistic gain, or being…

Malcolm X Was Ethical Malcolm X talked about the rules at the founding rally of the Organization of the Afro-American Unity "The Organization of Afro-American Unity shall include all people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere, as well as our brothers and sisters on the African continent. Which means anyone of African descent, with African blood, can become a member of the Organization of Afro-American Unity”. Malcolm X was a civil rights activist in the 1960’s, he lived in Manhattan,…

In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow developed a model called The Hierarchy of Needs. The model consisted of, according to Maslow, the five basic needs of the human race; one of them being the need for love, and belonging. Connecting with people and creating personal bonds is a part of human nature, and is something everybody searches for. While it is one of the deepest personal connections a person can have, the bond they share with their family can also be the most complicated. Hotel…

I feel bad for those who are being judged, treated based on their skin color, their culture as well as their ethnicity. I know that the majority of the people treat them nicely, but there are still some people who don’t understand this. We’re human and the things that make us human are that we have different languages, different cultures, ethnicity, skin colors and so on. We’re unique to one another. We’re living on the same planet, the same type of atmosphere, breathing the same air. Why can’t…

African-American population equate disorders, such as depression and anxiety, to facets of personal weakness (2016). This negative connotation has been passed down from generation to generation, which has enabled the vicious cycle to persist in the black diaspora. Stereotypes and prejudices of a given community work together to influence certain behaviors…

The Pan-African and African American holiday, Kwanzaa, is the celebration of family, community, and culture. In addition, this cultural holiday established in 1965 by Dr. Maulana Karenge, a dominant figure in the Black Power Movement, with the ambition of delivering African Americans with a gateway to their ancestral heritage. The aspiration of this holiday target was to bring together African Americans as a community through combinations of several perspectives from other celebrations such as…