The American Scholar

The border states between the North and South faced a migration of African Americans attempting to begin a life anywhere except under the oppression of Jim Crow and the bleak conditions of the postbellum South. As extremist movements and relational events occurred throughout the nation, urban areas experienced a renaissance of black culture. Was this period truly the “birth of a nation?” As black culture graced America with music, art, and literature, white Protestant women attempted to gain…

various research techniques and musicology, Kyra D. Gaunt seamlessly voyages through a myriad of ethnographic methodologies in her monograph, The Games Black Girls Play. Drawing from her arsenal of experiences as an African American woman, singer, student, dancer and scholar, she powerfully asserts that the games that black girls play is the nucleus of black musical identities and sensibilities, which are also essential to the origins of black popular music and cultural production. The array of…

During the first few decades of the twentieth century there was an upsurge in African American mobility in the United States. Scholars refer to this demographic shift as the “Great Migration” of African Americans, in which African Americans moved out of southern states to northern cities, and to a lesser extent to the west coast, between 1910 and 1970. According to studies on the Great Migration, the mass exodus of blacks from the South was propelled by Jim Crow policies that exacerbated the…

In the Harlem Renaissance African American had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. Starting in about 1890, African Americans migrated to the North in great numbers. African American culture was reborn in the Harlem Renaissance. The migration eventually relocated hundreds and thousands of African Americans from rural South to the urban North. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United…

boxer. He fought every powerful boxer he could to show power is earned not given. He fought the military on the draft and stood up for what he believed in. Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali all worked towards equality for african americans. When he began the fight for equality everything was in shambles ; the world was in the lowest place it could be when it came to human rights but lucky for us Martin Luther King Jr was ready to deal with the worst possible situations and…

The major comparisons between the two poems about racism and discrimination, plus scholars’ articles of proofs and experiences should be the best reason why those acts should be abolished in this society, so every can have a better and more peaceful world. The first major comparisons Derricotte used to describe the separation of people…

Power movement, as scholars continue to portray the period mainly in negative terms, without discussing the distinct ideological and practical contributions of Black Power activists. However, over the last two decades, the revision of scholarship that in the past was often characterized by dichotomous portrayals of the civil rights and Black Power phases has gained in momentum, as scholars have produced a wide array of studies…

In this study, Eurasian is a racial concept. It is a North American term describing a lack of genealogical consistency, like the terms mulatto, mestizo, hapa and half-breed. The twentieth-century conception of race in the United States is rooted in the powerful, although scientifically insupportable rule of hypodescent. This famous one-drop rule defining any individual with any amount of “black blood” as black logically prevents the concept of mixed race identity. People are white according to…

racism in this country to which it was founded upon, other scholars such as Yosso aim to identify the conditions that bring Chicano’s to be pushed out of the educational system, effects…

articulations of mestizaje accentuate half breed social encounters and the relations of power. The social position of contemporary scholars to some degree clarifies the late-twentieth-century plans of mestizaje. The term mestizaje taking as its root mestizo or "blended" is the Spanish decent word for miscegenation, the general procedure of ancestry mixing. Mexican American evolved as a new identity in the beginning of the 20th century. These showed a great relationship between the dominant and…