Lebanese diaspora

Political Socialization, being the way thoughts and opinions about politics are formed, is of great importance as it helps shape views of politics. Politics is affected by many factors, some ordained by the creation of the world, and some fated by human interference. Black Lives Matter is an activist movement demanding freedom, justice and equality in the United States for African Americans. The manner in which citizens form opinions is an extensive process including environmental factors,…

Etheridge Knight’s poem “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane” depicts a disturbing era in American history and unjust system for prisoners in a time where discrimination ran deep. The mid 1900’s was the time when Black artists sought a voice. This quest, combined with the prison rights movement, focused on civil rights and an end to unethical practices. Prison laws and conditions in American were a disaster and the people needed a voice to reveal the…

The 20th century was packed with major events in America’s history. Nearly every decade had a defying event, from the Great Depression to both World Wars. However, while all of that was occurring, there was another event happening at the same time for much of the century. The Great Migration refers to the relocation of African Americans from the rural South to the urban areas in the North. City populations in Chicago and New York, for example, expanded greatly because of this influx. Migrants…

An epidemic that has plagued much of the African American community is the reliance on athleticism as a channel for upward social mobility. There has been little emphasis placed on academic achievement because it is considered too much work; the low expectations already set for African Americans to succeed academically only diminish their pursuit (Semyonov & Yuchtman-Yaar, 1981). Several things are thought to be correlated with social mobility in sports for African Americans. Some examples…

Black American is a term used in describing a very diverse group of people in American nation. In American society Black Americans tend to be bi-cultural as they adapt other dominating culture so as to acquire high education and social status. This paper will illustrates the differences between Washington, du Bois and Garvey in the way that they envisage the future position of Black Americans in the American nation. In drawing the discussion it will further explain the differences in the context…

Intersectionality is describing the system of inequality people experienced due to their intersecting statuses including race, class, gender, sexuality and so on. The discriminations or advantages they face are the result of the mixture of their multiple statuses. For example, for a black woman, her gender is female and her race is African American, so she experiences discrimination for being black and female simultaneously. For African Americans, they face social stratification, and therefore…

What is the Africanist Aesthetic? It’s the African-based cultural forms and philosophical approach existing in the African Diaspora that continue to reflect similar musical, dance, and oral practices as those in Africa; though not African, enough resemblances in the performer's’ attitude and relationship to audience exist that cultural connections to African cultural practices are apparent. How does African culture continue to show in Hip-hop over time? Hip-Hop culture, since around the 1950s,…

Blacks from the injustices they faced on a regular basis. In fact, Howard University is where Coates learned about the diversity of the black population. “The history, the location, the alumni combined to create the Mecca, the crossroads of the black diaspora.” The Mecca was a gathering places for Blacks across the country. Blacks were not forced into a bubble where it is them against the white masses. However, the Mecca became a means of escape that many blacks were not provided through the…

The book Mojo workin’: The old African American Hoodoo system was written by Katrina Hazzard-Donald. Hazzard-Donald (2013) is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Rutgers University-Camden. Hazzard-Donald’s book explored the African American cultural tradition of hoodoo. Subsequently, Hazzard-Donald argued that the tradition of hoodoo emerged from a range of different African ethnic cultures brought together as a result of enslavement during the Trans…

Alice Walker is the author of many great works. Her short-story “Everyday Use” is a strong work based on the themes of heritage, tradition, and sisterhood. With this book, she shows the struggle of African-Americans within themselves. Heritage is the most important theme in this story. In the beginning paragraphs, readers learn that Mama and Maggie lived in a more rural area. Mama explains in the first paragraph that her front yard felt like an extension to her living-room, which means she took…