Sub-Saharan Africa

Supposedly, changes are taking place in the South to combat racial disparities; nevertheless, the history concerning Blacks and Whites stay subjected to the throes of deep-rooted supremacy, prejudice, and biases, predominantly by Whites toward Blacks. As a matter of fact, in A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest Gaines novel is set in Bayonne, South Louisiana where racism runs rampant toward Blacks by folks referred to as Cajuns. Also, Cajuns are depicted as being superior to Blacks, but they are the…

The discipline of studies sometime takes courses because of how effective it has in the community and because history has allowed scholars to reconstruct the concept of Africana World Studies. According to John Clarke, he describes through Saunders Redding, theory on how history has played a major part in the academic perspective on Black Studies. A history first distorted when the Europeans first travel and kidnapped thousands of African for enslavement. The study was to revamp the studies for…

The evolution and presence of African Americans in film has not changed over the years. Being accepted to act in some of the most prestigious films and television shows is an honor. Since the opening of Uncle Tom’s Cabin back in 1903, the diversity in film has only made gradual changes for producers and filmgoers. The production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin featured a white male wearing blackface and portraying the life of a black slave. As the story unfolds, Uncle Tom and another slave are up to be…

Thesis: In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses Jim to explain that slavery was a wrong institution because whites treated blacks like they were a different species, which was wrong because blacks are humans too. TS1 Violence: In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, violence is seen as one of the most vulgar aspects of slavery because humans beat and other humans and deprive them of their basic amenities. TS2 Family Separation: Miss Watson shows how separation of families was another…

Two men, born nearly a hundred years apart, each seeking revolutionary changes in the United States in ways suited to their society and circumstances. Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X were monumental and influential and prominent (pattern c) figures in American history. In the books Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, (pattern B) both Douglass and Malcolm used their extraordinary oratorical skills and charisma to object to the systematic oppression and…

In the beginning of the video series I watched Dr. Zagelbaum, as he showed the stastical data that our population in the United States is changing daily and that we are no longer the Western European country, however, now we have become a county of the “Cablinasian” or “muticultural” people. This was a term that Tiger Woods used when questioned about his racial identity. There is growth of assimilation of the world population and the old that idea of staying within our own culture are slowly…

It is hard being black in America and even harder to be a black woman in America. Black women encounter more scrutiny and backlash than any other minority group. We are constantly portrayed as the “angry black women” any time we speak on the oppressions that we face. Being a black woman in America, I have noticed that I am faced with completely different challenges than any other race and gender. I have been conditioned to follow societal norms such as how to wear my hair, not to use black…

Stereotypes play a vital role in today’s society, particularly in the misinformation of images. According to Webster’s dictionary, stereotyping is defined as a permanent conventional notion or conception of an individual group of people. Stereotypes form when a person makes a perception of a whole culture or a gender inside of a culture based on the actions, appearance, and beliefs of one person. Stereotypes can be both negative and positive. However, in the media, they use stereotypes to…

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 cultural oppression. European countries scrambled to divide Africa while exploiting the continent’s resources and their people. What the Europeans did not consider was the fact that they were splitting up tribes, causing wars which eventually led to a class…

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…