The American Scholar

US region. Even though they had done horrendous deeds, the relations between Native Americans and the US citizen are ones filled with acceptance and often times sarcasm. Dr. Rayna Green, who is a Cherokee scholar and writer, created a way in presenting her serious information in a way that appeals to everyone which is that of using humor. During her discussion of the beliefs of white people about Native Americans she uses allusion, tone, and unique ways of describing the world that we can see…

civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others". After gaining freedom, African Americans struggled to bring themselves forward and be successful. Booker T. Washington, a scholar who taught at Tuskegee University, was the author of the "Atlanta Compromise" emphasized that a black man was only to be prepared to work. W.E.B. DuBois is a scholar who was the first African-American to graduate with a Ph.D. at Harvard University. He is the author of the text "Of Mr. Booker T.…

development of American foreign policy, but some ethnic groups are consistently more successful at influencing policy than others. Various foreign relations scholars have tried to explain this phenomenon that crops up again and again in American foreign policy. Among them are Tony Smith and Alvin Tillery, Jr., who developed different but complimentary theories to explain the origin of the discrepancy and analysis of how ethnic groups can lobby more effectively. Yet other scholars, such as…

Margaret Mead was a popular American writer, cultural, and visual anthropologist. Throughout her career, Margaret Mead has conducted over twenty field trips (Yans-McLaughlin 2000). In addition, Mead’s fieldwork focused on the development and growth of adolescents. The reason why I chose Margaret Mead is because of the tremendous contributions that she has made to the field of anthropology and the public. In addition, I find it very astounding that Mead “offers a resolution of the old apparent…

What is African American psychology? African American psychology is defined as “the body of knowledge that is concerned with the understanding of African American life and culture. African American psychology recognizes the commonality of experiences of African people throughout the world” (Fairchild, pg. 93). There are two perspectives in which African American psychology can be presented. The first way in which the reaction of African American psychology to racist attacks on black people by…

The Black Lives Matter movement started in response to unaccounted police shootings of African Americans. In addition to the problem of police brutality, BLM aims to publicize and challenge the ongoing racial discrimination and degrading of Blacks (“About”). The Police Lives Matter movement points to the deaths of police during duty and the difficulty of the job (“Our Mission”). Similarly, the All Lives Matter movement protests that BLM is exclusive of the value of other groups. Both ALM and BLM…

West exclaims how black sexuality is known to be disgusting, dirty, funky, gay, and somehow less acceptable in the American society. Dehumanized and distorted body images of African Americans are common when researching the black body but so are images of black women with large hind parts and big breasts or black men with large penises. So the question transpires, does the American society idolize these images or are they being mocked? And if so, how does the black community take back control of…

English. While some argue that Black English is a true form of speech, others say Black English is not a language at all and the only true language is the American English we all speak today. Black English came from low income African Americans around 400 years ago. Known as "the slave language" Black English became a way for African Americans to speak without getting interference from the white culture they were subjected to. According to Gloria Tolver -Weddinton who wrote the article The…

A second notoriously racist Broadway show born in the “Golden Age” of theatre is Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s musical, The King and I. However, this show is not notorious for appropriating black American culture, but rather Asian culture in Siam. The King and I differs from Show Boat, however, because it is based on a true story. In The King and I, a Welsh, widowed school teacher is brought in by the King of Siam to tutor his children. There is a clashing of personalities between the governess,…

their voice and contribution from their own life’s journey. You will be intrigued with Cisneros stories, vignettes, and use of language that invites the reader to experience the challenges of navigating in between two worlds, her Mexican and Anglo-American cultures. Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois December 20, 1954 to Alfredo Cisneros de Moral and Elvira Cordero Anguiano. She was the only girl, in a family of six brothers. Her family migrated from Mexico City to Chicago often…