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or destroyed.” After the Civil War finally came to an end in 1865, that “something” that needed rebuilding was our country, as well as the rights of the country 's people. A common question asked about reconstruction was how it affected African Americans. I believe that issues such as the black codes, sharecropping, and the overall system of slavery greatly affected blacks and their growth in society.…

police at least eleven times as police held him to the ground and before he died. Eric Garner was unarmed and under suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes, but at the end the police showed that his live did not matter. Richard Sherman an African American male and extremely intelligent athlete who has repeatedly stated that he is all for all lives matter. Richard Sherman said "I stand by what I said that All Lives Matter and that we are human beings” (Stracham). Philando Castile was shot…

Second sight refers to African Americans ability, or need to see themselves not only as they are, but also as the rest of white America sees them. With this type of experience, a person becomes used to the idea that they are what white America portrays them as. A relevant example that describes second sight is the idea of a black maid working for a white family. The maid becomes contempt with being just a maid, and forms the idea that this is all she can ever be. Relating it to society today, a…

experience. It is scientifically proven that when a black person is killed by someone of another race especially a cop, it is felt by everyone of that culture. The reason being is the idea of fictive kin and the theory of the Ubuntu. Culturally, African Americans are more community based and interdependent, therefore, when tragedy happens the affect is felt due to the meaning of Ubuntu which means “I am what I am because of what we…

characteristic that African Americans have compared to other cultures and racial groups. A more educational meaning of The Filter is, the nucleus of the Black experience and Black culture. It is about the impact on how African Americans see themselves and how African Americans are represented. In The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi speaks on The Filter. Paul Coates, was a very wise and educated man. He was big on reading books, especially books that revolved around African American history. This…

development of identity for African American women. In developing social identity, the identity developed because of membership to a group is crucial in developing identity to one’s self (Thomas, Hacker, and Hoxka 530). As shown in Bany, Robnett, and Feliciano’s article, the stereotypes depict African American women as obese, highly sexual, and highly talkative to name a few stereotypes (Bany, Robnett, and Feliciano 203). By having such stereotypes shows how African American women are forced to…

Every Tuesday and Thursday, my first class of the day is Politics of Black Identity, taught by Professor Cokley, and each day I get increasingly excited about the topics we will discuss in class. Every topic we have discussed in class has been very real and open minded subjects that have all had my brain working in new ways in order to determine my opinion on questions and topics I have never been asked or discussed before. Two issues we have conversed about in class that have stuck out to me…

of a Persian Prince ignores the cultural significance that it may have to people. Not only Gyllenhaal but majority of the main cast was not in any way Middle Easter or Asian. The character of Sheik Amar is also played by Alfred Molina - an English American actor. However, any other representation of a Persian was belittled to a slave or towns people, that too played by a person of colour. This is seen through characters and their dialogue, one example being Sheik Amar and his modern day slang.…

Not Everything is Just Black and White Rosa Parks was raised during a time when segregation was normal and cultural suppression of African Americans was a way of life. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks did something very simple that turned into something great. She refused to give up her seat on the bus riding home after work to a white man. Not to make a point or start a protest, because it had been a long day and she was tired. Her actions that day started a protest of the bus companies '…

My upbringing was different from most American kids because I 'm not just American, I 'm African American. More specifically I 'm Ivorian-American. Immigrating and assimilating into the American culture was a feat. Everything was significantly different from what I was used to in Abidjan. Suddenly, I was aware that I 'm different and even those who I thought were the same as me, weren 't. It wasn 't until I became older and grew to understood myself that I was able to make sense of it all. I…