Latin American debt crisis

The Beautiful Struggle, written by Tanashi Coates is a memoir published May 6, 2008. Coates’s memoir gives you some insight of the upbringing and maturation of his life. In general the memoir gives you an outlook of how Coates and his siblings were raised including the struggles Coates went through that ultimately created a beautiful future for himself. This memoir also portrays the life of a conscious black family growing up in the 80s. Coates’s blunt style of writing expresses the…

Coates writes about the various ways that African Americans have been prevented from attaining the American dream and why there is a strong case for reparations. Coates tells the story of Clyde Ross and his journey to obtain the American Dream and the laws that stopped him from doing so. This reading hits on a lot of topics that we have touched on in class and how they relate to why this so called dream is still just out of reach for most African American in today’s society. The reading however…

Why are people proving the world right by displaying how history repeats itself? It is 2016 and African Americans are still getting treated like they do not belong and have plenty to show for that. The world continues to demonstrate how African Americans, whether a teenager or an adult, are still getting killed. It seems to be hard to admit or say it out loud, but the white murderers are still getting away with it. White people have always put shame to Negros and it still continues, 500 years…

and watch. I would grade the lecture with an A. I love how she related everything from the past to present because in reality not much has changed when it comes to racism and slavery and the challenges we face as not only African American but also being an African American woman. One of my favorite parts was how she ended the lecture with a question and answer portion and how many of the students were not afraid to ask very challenging questions and of course her response was just as in depth.…

“Black folk have always maintained a dynamic and vibrant life of the mind. Not even slavery, Reconstruction’s failure, and the rise of state-sponsored terrorism could stamp out their creativity and scientific genius” (Gomez 2005, 183). While many things have been taken from black people, they can’t and won’t be stripped of their happiness and creativity. Throughout the Diaspora blacks have been faced with enduring the struggles of colonialism, which became the symbol for white supremacy and…

production and trade, the average American began to develop an opinion on women of color. Through stereotypes such as the Jezebel (6) and Mammy (7) white Americans learned about African American culture. The Jezebel stereotype has carried down into contemporary society through film and the hyper sexualized way that women of color are viewed in regards to sexual assault, fashion, and the music industry. In many ways the Mammy stereotype has an opposite effect on African American women, although…

lasting from the 1890s to the 1920s, African Americans expected significant improvements in their political and economic standings. However, white Americans influenced by racial ideology challenged the freedmen’s rights and restrained black involvement in politics. Playwright August Wilson illustrates the oppression imposed upon the black community in The Piano Lesson by revealing the discriminatory practices targeting black people. The…

Have Civil Rights Improved Since the 1960s? The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was a mass popular movement to secure African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of United States citizenship. (insert in-text citation) Throughout the 21st century, racial equality has been a major topic. Has racial equality improved since the Civil Rights Movement? Rosa Parks said (insert in-text citation) “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our…

say being black is just being dark-skinned or is another way of saying that someone is African American. On the contrary, being black encompasses a lot more than just that definition. Ever since Africans first came to America as slaves, the term being black has evolved and changed throughout American history. In America, being black has become a label used to relate the stereotypes of African Americans to whoever is being or not being black. Although this label is used by most, if not all of…

Originating during slavery, the African American family is an institution that has encountered an abounding amount of obstacles for centuries. Yet, since the 1960s, there has been a rapid decrease in the black family. Three theorist who examined the African American family were E. Franklin Frazier, Daniel Moynihan, and H. Gutman. Frazier’s was the first to examine the black family’s characteristics and the cause for its slow decline; Moynihan echoed Frazier and provided data to support his…