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Speaking about the colorism and lack of diversity in our media gives a deeper understanding of just how the mainstream media affects the black community. According to “A Colourstruck world: skin tone, achievement and self- esteem among African American women,” Verna M. Keith looks at the relationship between skin tone and self-esteem. She provided two graphs which show the relationship between the levels of self-esteem in adolescents and adulthood. There was very little difference between…

explains it as having more than one social identity, it the idea of blacks only thinking of themselves through the eyes of how whites perceive blacks. He starts off with the idea of double conscious to show that blacks although free in the current American society they still are looked down upon and aren’t thought of as equals in any imagination. Early in the first Chapter you see that WEB learns he is a considered a problem from the point of view of whites. He receives his first real life…

blackness. Some may associate it with nighttime, or darkness; while others see it as a skin color, or even an identity. Because of this portrayal, our society continues to struggle with the problem of racism. Dating back to before slavery, African Americans have been labeled as black; but why is that? When you think about black as a color, you don’t think of it as pertaining to the color of one’s skin, because no one’s skin color is truly black. Rather, skin appears in various shades of beige to…

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 goals they had set. W.E.B. Du Bois was a man of several talents he was a…

In society today black males are not succeeding because they try to portray this image of where they come from, rather than to just be smart & successful. When black males are perceived of being smart and intelligent their own race tends to categorize them as homosexual or feminine. In most cases the environment you are raised in will affect the way you act because of the people you acquaintance yourself with. Being raised in a white community will enhance your English Vernacular sounding much…

According to the authors stated the African American middle class address the neighborhood of the Groveland community three-dimensional system through in it. The Groveland city irony high-poverty and high-crime and drug dealers’ neighborhoods in Chicago. Which presents particular challenges to the neighborhood social organization, in social organization theory, different racial problem, in these neighborhoods most burdened by noticeable drug dealing markets, crimes are characteristics of…

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 petty crimes, black people have always had the short…

are always being frisk for unjustified reasons or rather they fit the description. Everytime I read that sentence, I start to think deeper and and ask myself why is there always one other person that fits the criminal description? I learned in my American Government class that black people are the highest victims of stop and frisk. Paragraph 4 on page 105, stated, “You can’t drive yourself sane. This motion wears…

Black women constantly face challenges brought on by the intersectionality of racism and sexism. There is a notable rise in the amount of black women arrested for minor crimes such as parking tickets or minor offences such as cursing. Higher amounts of black women are targets of criminalization and discrimination through the intersection of racism and sexism. This paper will include the targeting of young women, but also the school to prison pipeline and the abuse of black women by sexual…

In this day and age, statistically speaking, only fifty-two percent of black men graduate high school. Of that fifty-two percent, only about thirty-three percent of black men that go to college graduate. For those that go to college, what are the causes and factors that increase the ability to succeed? Is it mentoring? Or could it be simply being thrown to the wolves and told to survive? Furthermore, what causes this resiliency? And what causes resiliency specifically at predominantly white…