Portuguese American

ratified into the Constitution. African Americans don’t see the flag as a symbol for anything except for racism. The Kul Klux Klan actually used this flag as a symbol for racism, and not every white American uses the flag for that purpose. Also the flag was not the original flag for the Confederacy. Not all Africans see the flag as a bad symbol, but most do and that is all because of slavery. Slavery happened because of the fact that the white Americans didn’t see all men are created equal.…

but with only three-fifths of voting power; negative attitudes about blacks continue to persist. While nations like Britain began to steer away from slavery, Eli Witney’s patent for the cotton gin in 1791 created a boom in demand for slaves in the American south. As a result, the capitalist country of America produced laws to protect its industries for supporting the institution of slavery such as the fugitive slave act of 1793 law requiring the return of runaway slaves. Though the south was…

Professor Henry Gates explores the South American country of Brazil in his second episode of Black in Latin America. More than 75 million people of African descent inhabit Brazil which makes it the second largest population of black people in the world. There are many aspects of African culture, traditions, and values very alive in Brazil. Brazil was the first country to claim it was free of racism, but the last country in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery. Gates visits different cities…

1) The Hinário Para o Culto Cristão (HCC) is one of the most well-known collection of sacred hymns adopted by several traditional Baptists churches in Brazil currently. 2) The publishing of this hymnal was essential to the teaching of indispensable Baptist doctrines, theology, and biblical foundations capable of disseminating in Brazil the Baptist values and its identity as a Protestant church. 3) The HCC presents four hundred and forty-one hymns plus one hundred and seventy-two biblical…

created growth and opportunities, and spread ideas throughout the world. Although many occurred, the most prevalent of these political changes are the growth of exploration and colonization in the New World, the spread of Enlightenment ideas, and the American Revolution against imperial control. Each of these unique and universal changes led to the eventual creation of a republican government in North America, whose ideas influenced the world. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries brought…

close relation to a trumpet, in New Orleans, but unfortunately there are no records of his music or this performance. Throughout the 19th century, New Orleans has been a comfortable environment for African Americans during the slavery days.…

In the prose poem carefully crafted by Jamaica Kincaid, throughout “Girl” the use of Kincaid’s childhood, history of Antigua, word choice, tone, and symbolism reveals the underlying life lessons for a traditional community from a wise mother to her young rebellious daughter. The daughter of Annie Richardson and Roderick Potter, Elaine Potter Richardson, later changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid, was born on May 25, 1949 in the town of St. John’s (Jamaica Kincaid Facts). The capital of a small…

dislike the Civil Rights Movement in their school annually. Coates believes that the schools and streets were the same and that he should not give value to people whose values society is scorned. For him, it did not matter whether the intentions of Americans who did not think they were racist nor the intentions of educators, but, the violence of those people of the Movement whom fought and against the violence in the phrase “Yeah, nigger, what’s up now?” (34) are connected in some way. In the…

On June 14, 1984, at the age of twelve, I moved to the United States of America in the hope and dream of becoming an American citizen in the “land of opportunity.” The transition from the Jamaican culture to the American culture was difficult to get accustomed to. I was taught to read, write and speak the Standard American English which is basically a foreign tongue to the Jamaican people causing much pain and anguish. There was a point where I wanted to give up on reading and writing altogether…

of white being equivalent to American lead to racial discrimination and a feeling of superiority, similar to that of the Whiteman’s Burden. On the other hand, European Americans such as the Jewish and Irish had also received racial discrimination; however being accepted as American was easier because they were in fact white and was enforced by the Naturalization Law of 1790. For immigrants that were not white, such as Asian Americans, African Americans, Latin Americans and so on, no matter how…