The American Scholar

In African Americans confront lynching; Waldrep argues the interpretation of lynching and actual lynching. The word lynching originated in the American Revolution when Virginia "patriots" hung or beat captured American colonist who supported the British side during the American Revolution, instead of escorting them to prisons like the law required at the time. Americans think lynching is large mobs hanging victims, in fact lynching haven't always been fatal. Some lynchings have occurred secretly…

Crawford. The main speaker was Dr. Pamela Lightsey, she is a scholar, social justice activist, and military veteran whose academic and research interests including: classical and contemporary just war theory, womanist theology, queer theory and theology, and african american religious history and theologies. The lecture was very heartfelt and meaningfully due to the fact that they talked about real world issues dealing with african american community, and how the population…

Systemic racism is a real thing that affects minorities in the United States, especially black Americans. Its effects create inequality and oppression. “Systemic racism includes the complex array of anti-black practices, the unjustly gained political- economic power of whites, the continuing economic and other resource inequalities along racial lines, and the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and power.” (Cole, 2015) Because of its presence…

“the history of African American preaching women and the issues and struggles they confronted in their efforts to function as ministers and to become ordained” (xv). Her writing suggests that we gain a deeper understanding of the history of the Black Church and African American women’s roles in light of its institution itself and powerful theology that propels it. Her study contributes to the purpose of my dissertation topic, because it clearly notes a century of African American women’s…

African-American scholar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wrote many significant essays that challenged the dangerous societal view that black Americans weren’t capable of progress. In one of those essays, Strivings of the Negro People, he develops new terminology to discuss the many forces that act upon black Americans in a white dominated society, the most important of which is double-consciousness. The phrase, “double-consciousness”, refers to the division of the African-American…

The Ignored Face of Mexico Racial discrimination is generally something Americans think of as a white and black issue. It can be hard to realize that other racial groups are subject to prejudice especially right at our southern border. The native people of Mexico are suffering through a systematic form of racial discrimination, but they do nothing to fight back for their rights. Mexicans native and other claim that racial discrimination is not a problem in their country at all even though…

this would be just like diagnosing the problems of the Jews in Germany. Griffin states “…the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested” (Griffin Preface). The way he does this is different from the common observatory ways of scholars and writers during this time by actually changing his skin color to see the underlying cause of this racism through the eyes of all people. There is no convincing, this book is made to make people aware and serve a history lesson that has never…

For past centuries african americans have been enslaved, dehumanized, and discriminated. The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual movement which started in the early 1930’s. This movement provided racial pride and gave blacks the chance to have a voice. During this time period many african americans became writers, artists, poets, and scholars. Martin Luther king jr. believed in justice and equality for all men and was inspired by many activists such as Mahatma Gandhi to promote peaceful…

refused to administer it to Anarcha or to the tend other women … Rather than treating the men for syphilis, the PHS doctors used the study to determine what untreated syphilis would do the body” (252 - 253). In particular, these examples how African Americans have been subject to multiple forms of involuntary experimentation. These experiments were performed without proper consent between…

is in America but it is still present. For example, in the city of Coral spring it has a street named Riverside Drive. The north region of Riverside Drive has a social space of Haitian American. The further south of Riverside Drive is more diverse with a variety of ethnicities living within one community. Scholars describe social space as, “ the ways in which the spatial patterns and areas of cities are shaped, and influenced, by their residents” (Chen, Orum, and Paulsen…