Category: African American

Working With African American Clients Abstract The chapter describes working with African American clients. The term African Americans subsumes a diverse array of people, including African Americans born in this country, Africans, and individual from west indies and Central and south America. The African American population is growing drastically each year. African Americans make up…

African American Women In Sports Gender is one of the few ways that women were categorized based on their strength for some athletic activities. African American women face different types of obstacles while trying to have an equal opportunity in sports. Some of these challenges may include not being able to participate in some sporting…

African Culture In The African-American Community Abstract In this paper I will discuss the African customs that are investigated in the opinion towards Spiritual Leaders, the way families are for the most part headed on the maternal side, and the social standards the two societies share. The importance of Spiritual Leaders in both African and…

Analytical Essay on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘The Case for Reparations’ In the essay ‘The Case for Reparations’, the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, analyzes African-American history in order to further his argument that African Americans deserve some form of reparations. He argues that America has allowed for the ‘plunder’ of African Americans in the past and continues to…

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates: Essay Black slavery in the U.S. was made illegal in the mid-1800s. However, the effects have lasted more than a few lifetimes. Lynching, segregation, and discrimination have all diminished greatly since the Civil War, yet the trek for equality seems to be an uphill battle for black Americans.…

Summary of Just Walk On By by Brent Staples Brent Staples, a journalist, in his essay Just Walk On By explained through a personal story the perspective of how the American society has viewed and treated its African American male population. Society has put a negative label on African American men, they have been viewed…

Warriors Dont Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals: Analysis Warriors Dont Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals is a true story based around the discriminatory events in Little Rock, Arkansas. Melba and eight of her other friends risk their lives on September 25, 1957, as they decide to integrate into an all-white school. They face extreme racism…

Critical Response Essay on ‘The Color Purple’ My first introduction to Oprah the actor was in a clouded frame of a classic Spielberg movie, where she shook and trembled, as she wailed to her hearts distraught. Oprah the actor got to me far before Spielberg the director. (Color Purple, Directed by Steven Spielberg, 1985). I…

Representation of African Americans Women in Literature: Analysis of Gone with the Wind African Americans are the most stereotyped group of people in modern and historical United States. Americas history with racial prejudices/biases against African Americans dates to the early eighteenth century, in the 18th and 19th centuries, many prominent whites in Europe and the…

The Marginalization of African-American Women in Society Literature and films have the power to change the way we perceive others, specifically those who are at the edges of society. The representation of African-American women, in the past, have revealed that they have been exploited in numerous ways. The Black Women Civil Right Movement in the…