The American Scholar

Scholars such as Umoja argue that SCLC’s mobilizing tactics were made possible through factors of class orientation and internal hierarchical structure rather than existing political opportunities (559). Since the organization consisted primarily of elites, they resorted to their own resources which helped them avoid armed protesters. Furthermore, analyzing through a gendered lens, scholar Wendt states that for numerous male African Americans, it was a sense of manhood…

rights and Black Power phases present more difficulties and create more confusion than it is adding to our understanding of the period. In their view, the long civil rights movement paradigm fails to account for the transformation in the African American consciousness that occurred in the late 1960s. What some long civil rights movement advocates would fail to realize, Cha-Jua and Lang suggest, is that ideology, discourse, and long range objectives matter as much, if not more, than the specific…

Summary Rocky Nagra Portrayal of African Americans in the Media: An Examination of Law and Order Shannon T. Isaacs, McNair Scholar The Pennsylvania State University McNair Faculty Research Advisor: Julie Horney, Ph.D. Professor, Crime, Law and Justice Department of Sociology The Pennsylvania State University all conducted a research on the Portrayal of African Americans in the Media: An Examination of Law and Order. Law and order and several other crime tv shows a blend between…

race/ethnicity, poverty, and inequality have turned to culture to explain why some groups (like native-born whites and Asian immigrants) do better socioeconomically than other groups (i.e., native-born blacks and Hispanics/Latinos). While earlier cultural scholars argued that some groups are culturally unassimilable or more inclined to be oppositional to mainstream values, contemporary cultural sociologists argue that it is not necessarily the culture that leads to success for some, but not for…

alternative public space through independent and underground media in order to combat dominant media’s attempt to maintain society’s status quo. In the song “Joe Metro,” the Asian American hip hop duo Blue Scholars use underground hip hop as a form of alternative media that recognizes the every day lives of both Asian Americans and other minority groups. The rap song focuses on their experiences on public transportation in the city of Seattle, and the observations that they have made about the…

Racism has long been present in American children sitcoms. Sitcoms usually depict the racial minority characters in a stereotypical way as they occupy more subordinate roles, including Asian-Americans who are usually portrayed as the model minority. However, since the NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People) established a bureau that monitors the minorities’ representation on American media in 2002, there has been a development on the portrayal of minorities (NAACP,…

The course revolves around the various themes existing within African American history, focused on the emergent ideal of Black Radicalism. It travels through the various Black movements in history converging them and allowing students to recognize their relationship to the larger and debatably unresolved picture. Stemming from rise of racial segregation in the early post-slavery nineteenth-century, and driving up to the apparent triumph of the race in the in the early days of Obama’s presidency…

As for the Vietnamese, they practice traditional roles as well and in the Vietnamese society, family is the center of an individual’s life and activities (Phan). One of the well-known scholars of Vietnamese culture notes that a Vietnamese individual cares about their family more than his or her self. According to Phan, “The word family in Vietnamese means a social entity that consists of all an individual 's relatives, not just father, mother, and sibling.” Researchers and authors have argued…

Black Studies in history have been undeniably a product of activism in education throughout the 1960 to the late 1980s. Those decades contributed to an important time in American history that has impacted the modern education of African-Americans today. During this period of time, there were studies showing various social movements that challenged the western society ideology and opened the doors for the movements to break down generations of inaccurate history that has supported the racist…

Since Kemetic Civilization, the African-Worldview has allowed the African people to utilize Ma’at within education to strive for the greatness while relating to God. Scholars such as Cheikh Anta Diop (as cited in Azibo), praises the fundamental elements of ancient Kemet, and how “[the worldview window on Kemetic classical African civilization knowledge] must be at the foundation of our humanities [and sciences, i.e., our Black Studies]” (p. 72). However, although Kemetic values have influenced…