Essays on African American

Political scientist Cedric Robinson suggests that by the nineteenth century there were two alternative political cultures that were on making a rise to the forefront. Cedric discusses these cultures in his writing “Black Movements in America”. The first cultural alternative wants to claim “privilege political…

Historical Context and Development of the Movement In the decade of the 60s, the United States was immersed in the revolutionary environment of the civil rights movement. The fragrance of the revolution and the continuous attacks against the black community led to the creation of…

On May 2, 1967, a fleet of cars stopped outside the State Capitol building in Sacramento, California. 24 men and 6 women, all dressed in the uniform of black leather jackets and berets, openly carrying shotguns and rifles, piled out of the cars. They loaded…

All began because black American people weren’t treated with justice, they were forced to do things they didn’t. Their average of life was 7 to 8 years less than a white American, and not exactly because they only got sick and didn’t’ receive the right…

According to Thelma Golden, “There is no question that representation is central to power. The real struggle is over the power to control images.” Women and African Americans as two groups that suffer issues of discrimination and injustice, also struggle with the dilemma in the…

Afrocentrism has gained a wide spread throughout African-American academia and pop culture. It claims that the cluster of ideas, beliefs, and tenets of the philosophy provide a corrective to Eurocentric histories of Africa, which diminish and neglect the achievements of the continent before the colonial…

Black sexualities are rarely ever depicted on-screen in a positive light as they are shamed and punished for expressing themselves in a similar way that white sexualities have been normalized and accepted for. This racial bias is clearly emphasized in the form of narrative storytelling…

Black people have always been active in asserting their being or humanity in the face of oppression. Whether it be art or rebellion, black people always seek to express and assert their conceptions of blackness within society. This expression has also taken form in mindsets…

The article “Ethnographies of Race, Crime, and Justice: Toward a Sociological Double-Consciousness” aims to introduce double-consciousness thinking into ethnographic studies of race, crime, and justice (RCJ) in order to “redefine what it means to study practices, structures, and cultural processes within the field” (Rios, Carney,…

Abstract This paper will look at the effects of mass incarceration on black families and children of school age that encounter parental incarceration. Not only does this put a strain on the child but great stress is put on the alternate caregiver. The alternative caregiver…