Lebanese diaspora

transformation of thought and requires awareness. These transformations are categorized as: skin recognition, environmental recognition, personality awareness, interest concern, and Afrocentric awareness. Every single person of African descent in the diaspora is in one of these stages. Many of my examples of these stages will come from my personal experience and growth. The first level of transformation is skin recognition. At this level, the individual knows that they are black, but does not…

James Baldwin was an African American novelist born in 1924, and passed away in 1987. He wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions, during an important time of history when these topics were finally being more widely discussed. Though he is an African-American writer, one may think Baldwin specifically wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions in solely America, but he actually travels over the world to tackle these issues. One of his works that covers those issues abroad is A…

Introduction: The issue of White-supermacy has been the major problem in the history of United States.It is started from the Era of slavery,the most sensitive Era for African-Americans.Superiority and inferiority are the two opposite words that always has been used together.As if one is superior in rank,colour,nation then he considers others inferior because of his rank and race.And the one who is superior governs over the inferior or suppressed.In America,White community govern over the Black…

Thesis: Get Out’s use of color, acting, directing, and script help further the narrative of racial tension via the use of socioeconomic status. There is a subtle use of the colors blue and white throughout Get Out as a representation of the dichotomy of the two races: blue symbolizes African Americans and their plight with racism, while white symbolizes control over another person or race. Blue is seen throughout the movie as clothes on the protagonist, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya)…

This essay will examine the use of poetry in expressing a poet’s ideology, how this is demonstrated in their work and the poet’s methods of communicating their world views to a reader. The work of Langston Hughes reflected the lives of the African Americans around him during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, and also the history that they all shared in Africa. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of revival for traditional African culture and a push for racial equality across in the community of…

The United States has 5% of the world population, 25% of the world’s prisoners, and about one in four prisoners are African American males. In this documentary, created by Ava Duvernay, it explains how the 13th amendment was used in the mass incarceration of mostly African Americans, as an extension of slavery. When slavery was abolished the 13th amendment loophole was immediately in use. The 13th amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime…

Secret History was written by Mary Hassal in a series of letters to her Uncle, who was the Vice-President of the United States. The letters are her observations of what life was like in the Caribbean and in particularly, they were about the nobility and the women in St. Domingue. The letters sent from Hassal to her Uncle appear to be letters that allow the government in the United States to keep track of what is going on in the Caribbean. Because of this, it can be inferred that she is a spy…

Hypertension (HTN), the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, remains a national problem (Hanus, Simoes, Amboni, Ceretta, & Tuon, 2015). The prevalence rate of HTN is approximately 1 billion people around the world (Hanus et al., 2015). Moreover, complications from HTN cause an estimated 9.4 million deaths per year (Kjeldsen et al., 2014). It is important to understand HTN and the negative effects it can cause within the human body as an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN).…

Discuss the role of women during the 1641 Rebellion. The 1641 Rebellion was the result of discontent with the British in Ireland due to a number of reasons, including but not limited to the failures of the Ulster Planation. During the Ulster Plantation many Irish lost their land and were left with less desirable land. As well as land and economic reasons, another factor resulting in the rebellion was Catholics unhappiness during the English Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth’s rule, many were…

What is an African man? There are so many different types of men; but what is an African man? Different philosophers and poets define an African man in many different ways. An African man is basically known to be a hunter, strong, powerful and to understand nature more than anything. An African man has endurance, patience, pride, love and hate at the same time. These qualities become visible and evident in an African man’s everyday life, depending on the environment and the situation at that…