The American Scholar

by Michelle Fine, Nick Freudenberg, Yasser Payne, Tiffany Perkinds, Kersha Smith, and Katya Wanzer, addresses the issues that teens have with adults and public authority in New York City. Her article is solely based on a survey that her and other scholars conducted to gain insight on how certain teens felt about the way they had been treated, while leaving out a few details that would make the article stronger. According to the survey, your race, gender, ethnicity, or borough will change the…

fraught. The Holocaust was known, and becoming more so, but Israel would not be founded until 1948. American Jews were in difficult circumstances. On one hand, they had been spared the direct horrors suffered by European Jews who had been killed in the Nazi concentration camps; on the other, many were recent immigrants, like Sheldon Gross Bart’s father, and had lost relatives to the Holocaust. The American Jewish community was in serious upheaval in 1945, unsure of what should be done to defend…

The Influence of Black Reconstruction Claire Parfait in “Rewriting History” proves that W. E. B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction influenced American history by correcting misinterpretations of the reconstruction era made by biased white historians. In Black Reconstruction Du Bois argues that the reconstruction era was not a failure due to the benefits it brought to the black community. “Rewriting History” analyzes how Black Reconstruction influenced history due to the discrimination during the…

How to counsel African American Clients African Americans are one of the most diversified groups of people that make up about 13.6% of the US. Population, totaling over 42 million people (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2010). Many African American families can trace their origins back 200 years to slavery while others identify with places such as the West Indies, South America, and many countries in Africa. The majority of this population resides in the southern states (57%) and slightly more than…

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois are considered as the two most influential black leaders of all the black American movement history. However they had contrasting views on how to attain racial equality. Within the books Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington and The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B DuBois we see how different their views were. In this paper you will see the difference in how the two men saw the importance of education, the way they were brought up from children and also…

the proper care, in their mind or is not taking the time to understand their beliefs that may affect the care given. The unique cultural values, beliefs, and practices of Korean Americans can affect healthcare, as well as, any biological factors that can influence healthcare provided to Korean Americans. Korean Americans will usually use their traditional medicine alongside of Western medicine (Kim, Kim, & Duong, 2002). Hanbang, is the traditional Korean medicine; it is very much an integral…

Throughout the years African Americans have dominated professional sports. Basketball, football, boxing, baseball and track are all sports a lot of African Americans succeed in. However, there is a lack of participation in swimming, golf, tennis, hockey, skiing and many other competitive sports that most White people play. Many factors greatly influence these statistics such as social, cultural and economic constraints. The question is, are Blacks superior to Whites in athletics due to their…

In addition, a former civil rights activist and scholar, Charles E. Cobb book, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, explored the role of self-defense during the movement. A common narrative in the discussion of African-Americans in America are that they have been a complacent group who did not rebel under oppression; that is false. The image of African-Americans capitulating to the demands of White people is a vast revision of the reality of…

Magazines in 1986, “Just Walk on By: Black men and Public Spaces”, we see how he interaction of gender and have a major impact on not only the people he encounters, but on Mr. Staples himself. Brent Staples, when written, was a mid-twenty African American man. He demonstrates how his everyday evening bus ride and walks from work have shaped the community around him. He encountered a white, early twenties woman, who began to change how he acts. O the woman Brent was nothing more than danger. “It…

that it was one special day in American history where I along with other people of color or “Black Men” felt proud. In fact, we were so empowered that we owned our world that day. We were united; we were strong; we had purpose; we had significance. I stood at the end of that stage with goose pimples alone my arms. I saw my picture in that Newsweek Magazine. I was somebody that day. From this day forward, I wanted to speak for every black man and…