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Gender relations and the experience of African American women under slavery

The period of slavery is perhaps one of the hardest periods that ancestral African American women ever faced. The hardships that African Americans faced as a result of slavery raise the question of why their white masters treated them with such cruelty and violation of human rights. This paper seeks to analyze some of the hardships that African American women faced under slavery. The analysis of the gross violation of human rights and freedoms will be analyzed critically to highlight the importance of respecting the fundamental rights of women and humanity in general.
In an effort to understand the ...

The following paper discusses white-collar crime, its effect on society, and theories to address this issue. There will first be a discussion of what white-collar crime is and who are the usual offenders. From there the discussion will shift to the reasoning behind the crime these perpetrators commit. To finish the paper we will look at a case study completed on the mindset of white-collar criminals and I will present two solutions to a problem that could greatly effect the future of our society. There are a variety of sources used for this research including books and a scholarly article. The attempt is not ...

Introduction

When the European settlers came to North America, it was already inhabited by an indigenous group of people. In the 19th century white Americans came with the idea of Manifest Destiny and in order to realize their idea of possessing the entire continent of North America, they began removing Native Americans from their ancestral homeland into reserved territories for the Indians. The US government initiated the One Big Reservation policy in 1851 and according to this policy Native Americans were to shift into 'One Big Reservation' but the constant migration of European settlers, the evolution of transportation technology which ...

Part 1. Primary Data Analysis.
In this paper we describe and discuss the application of statistics and probability theory to a real world problem in the area of psychology. It is believed that it is harder to read printed text on white paper than reading it on colored paper. The researchers decided to examine this claim. In order to do this, they performed a case study: 21 undergraduate students were randomly chosen. Since they were selected regardless of their age, skills, majors, status and abilities, the sampling method is simple random sampling. They were tested for the time spent ...

The study of critical mixed theory is not only a complex field of study, but also a field that must be examined in a multidimensional view. The mixed race theory entangles itself with political, social, and economic implication in the study of racial identities and the ‘race problem’. People with a multiracial background may experience difficulties in identifying with a particular class of people. This is because racial identities give a person the sense of belongingness. Moreover, one tends to develop a sense of self that is crucial to self-acceptance. However, even where there is a defined mixed race, a sense of belongingness can only be realized if ...

John White’s watercolours and De Bry’s engravings

Introduction:
The failed colony at Roanoke in 1585 was a disastrous mission yet it brought about some interesting observations on Indian life which would be useful again in the future. Nothing is more intriguing as a finding from this mission than the sets of watercolours on Indian life by John White and the resultant engravings made by De Bry which provide for a striking comparison. They also include much detail although that can appear to be also the imagination of both artists but on the whole the pictures are a valuable document of Indian life at a time when such things were completely ...

SURVIVAL AND SUBVERSION

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the Federal government enacted the 13th Amendment freeing the slaves and the 14th Amendment, which granted African Americans citizenship. In 1870, the 15th Amendment was passed, which gave black males the right to vote. In a few short years after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, African-American enfranchisement was the law of the land. And yet, in a vast region that had been conquered in a long and bloody war, social change was superficial. In practical terms, there was little difference between slavery and the world in which former slaves lived. Segregation was an absolute ...

According to White (2004); several scholars have said that Plato’s Symposium was able to get to the summit because of Diotima’s love due to her thoughtful and great admiration of beauty. However, this is not so. He attributes this to the ability of the philosopher to introduce the true virtue and its eternal existence. The author further argues that the virtue that has been brought into question was not from within the soul but from the outside and that the element of living forever should be based on the work that the philosopher was able to leave ...

There are a number of theories applied in sociology that help determine the social aspect of human beings in terms of their experiences. These theories include: conflict theory, feminist theory, sociological theory just to mention but a few. These theories define the interaction of social groups and helps evaluate their experiences in terms of race, gender, ethnicity and social class. These issues can be observed through various sociological perspectives such as functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactions (Leger, 2003). Therefore, the focus of the paper is assessing two ethnic communities in the United States in terms of race, gender and social ...

Introduction.

In November 29, 1864, a contingent of seven hundred white American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado killing an estimated 163 Indians1. It is one of the recorded atrocities of war during the Indian American Wars. In this massacre, the Colorado Territory Army Regiment managed to kill such a large number of Indians most of whom were women and children. The attack did not just stop at the killings; the bodies of the victims were mutilated. An Indian leader, referred to a tribal chief, Lean Bear, who was one of the negotiators of peace together with President Abraham ...

Introduction.

In November 29, 1864, a contingent of seven hundred white American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado killing an estimated 163 Indians1. It is one of the recorded atrocities of war during the Indian American Wars. In this massacre, the Colorado Territory Army Regiment managed to kill such a large number of Indians most of whom were women and children. The attack did not just stop at the killings; the bodies of the victims were mutilated. An Indian leader, referred to a tribal chief, Lean Bear, who was one of the negotiators of peace together with President Abraham ...

For a long time, black people together with their culture were grossly marginalized,l and their literature attracted little attention from the mainstream film and literature industry. This led to the emergence of black literature that championed for the social justice and equality in the country. It was a cry of recognition and the need of equality. The African American film criticism and commentaries were marginalized in both popular and scholarly histories and critical reevaluation as noted by the author of ‘Returning the Gaze’.
The exclusion of black critics in the mainstream led to an explosion of black American press ...

Race discrimination refers to viewing some people as being superior compared to others, mainly due to their skin color. For example, those people who are light-skinned are viewed as being superior to people who have dark skin color. As a result, the individuals with light skin are given the best opportunities and treated better than their dark-skinned counterparts. They get the best jobs; they are highly paid and they garner more respect as compared to their counterparts who have dark skin. Ethnic discrimination, on the other hand, refers to as treating people differently due to their country of origin ...

After the end of three hundred years of slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln freed Americans from shackles and chains of slavery. However, The Emancipation Proclamation was limited to the Southern States. States outside the South were still legally slaves. The final nail to slavery was realized when the thirteenth amendment was passed that abolished slavery across the territory of the United States.1 Still, the abolishment of slavery was only the first step towards racial cohesion and equality in America.
For many African Americans, the legal abolishment was only a façade of the truth. One ...

Introduction

Death penalty which had been abolished in 1970s was quickly restored during 1970s itself. There have been charges of racial discrimination in the application of death penalty both before and after abolition and restoration of death penalty. Research on the subject suggests a pattern of racial discrimination. Since 1976, percentage of blacks executed has been 35 while, the blacks form just 12 % of the total population. Research indicates that blacks are four times more likely to receive death penalty than if the defendant is white. In 2000, percentage of blacks on death row statewide were 46 % in Alabama, 36 % California, ...

#1 MAKE OBSERVATIONS
Some genetic diseases are very common in people with certain heritages. Examples include sickle cell anemia in persons from African descent, Tays Sachs in Jews from Germany or Eastern Europe, and cystic fibrosis in Caucasians.
#2 ASK QUESTIONS

Is there a way to narrow down genetic issues specific to certain heritages?

#3 HYPOTHESIS
There are factors within a person’s genetic code (DNA) and factors within the way persons of a certain heritage live that concentrate genetic issues within a particular heritage.
#4 PREDICTION
Genetic issues will be the result of changes within the affected individual’s DNA that mean they have differences in the way their ...

The Impacts of the Haitian Revolution on Slavery in North and South America

The Haitian Revolution was a veritable revolution in the history of the world, dated back in the early 19th century. The revolution emerged out of conflicts of the revolutionary age and out of the tension that was building in the society of the wealthy French colony, established by the slave labor. The French revolution of the 1789 was also a key contributor to the rise of the Haitian Revolution. In tandem to this, the Haitian revolution was the first successful rebellion by slaves after 300 years of African Slavery in the Caribbean and America (Geggus & Fiering, 2009). This was facilitated by ...

African-American Civil Rights Movement and Value-Added Theory

The African American Civil Rights movement is one of the most remarkable event and periods in the history of United States of America and perhaps even the whole world. The social movement was aimed at providing equal rights to the Black Americans in the country and putting an end to their racial discrimination while also providing them voting rights. The movement had been a long struggle for the African Americans who came into the country as slaves and were rampantly exploited by the white Americans. The struggle for the equal rights for the Blacks in America, mostly in the Southern ...

Abstract

The labor unions have provisions and features which allow for more discrimination based on race and ethnicity. They were historically detrimental to minority workers, especially the Blacks. This paper will focus on the historic vulnerabilities of the minority workers, specifically the Blacks and the Chinese workers during the 1800’s. These vulnerabilities pose a dangerous risk to the continued manifestation and persistence of discrimination among minority workers.
This paper, therefore, intends to illustrate the ways by which labor unions put the Blacks and the Chinese workers to a great disadvantage in the past. This knowledge would be essential in generating ...

The Complexity of the Cross

Perception and perspective is often considered one’s reality. This notion forces one to acknowledge their own perceptions and perspective, particularly when it comes to their faith as they solidify and identify their own beliefs. For those who belong to the body of Christ, each member has its own journey formulating a testimony that is based on a personal relationship that is rooted in the loving grace of Jesus Christ. Within each life with Christ, there are complexities that only the grace of God can heal. In spite of life’s injustices, evil forces, sinful flesh, and degradation, the ...

Racism is the practice of instilling the consciousness of racial disparities in a person. In the novel Native Speaker there is evidence of racism. The early immigrants were subjected to racialization on the basis of their color, culture and labor. A good example is seen through Henry and his relations with the people around him. He struggles to fit in and so goes to great lengths in order to get the racial burden off his shoulders. He is forced to make decisions which are geared towards making him more white than Korean. Racism makes people make choices that are geared ...

Interview Guide

Basic Information
Age
Gender..
Nationality..

Ethnicity.

Education
What is your highest level of education?
Where did you do your elementary education?
Was it a multi ethnic/racial school?
If YES. How did you interact with students from:
- Other races

Where did you undergo your high school education?

Was it a multi ethnic/racial school?

If YES. How did you interact with students from:

- Other races

In which college did you study?

What was your area of study?
Why did you choose it? Was there any racial influence towards the choice of your career?
Social Interactions and Experiences
What is your religion?
If Christianity, specify your denomination?
What is the race of your ...

Racial discrimination has been a deep rooted form of discrimination in most societies with Co existences of two races. The white race has always been regarded as the superior race; this has been the norm from the ancient times. As a result the white race had continuously discriminated against the black race. Blacks being considered as the minority have continuously being exploited by the white people. Significantly the world is changing and people have changed their mentality about which race is superior to the others. This has been due to the development in religion which argues out that all the people ...

Introduction

The social consequences of slavery in both the colonial and antebellum America were profoundly immense. This essay reviews the nature and impact of slavery throughout the Colonial and Antebellum America in accordance with the information contained in the historical primary sources detailed in Eric Foner’s Voices of Freedom. The four primary sources reviewed in this essay include Colloquy with Colored Ministries, Mississippi Black Code, Sharecropping Contract and the Composite Nation. All the documents in Foner’s book are documents of considerable length containing words spoken or written by the American men and women enmeshed inside America’s dark ...

Racial progress is an important subject in the United States because it helps the nation find out how far they are from realizing the goal of equality among the races. This realization further helps in mobilizing support for policies that aim at supporting equality of races. Through the subject, researchers are able to raise important questions which help the government to implement key public policies seeking to address the overall issue of race inequality in the United States of America. Race equality further aims at enhancing peaceful coexistence between races through equality in treatment by rule of law, state ...

Based on the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, the production of a film with the same name is world-famous. With its release date falling in 1939, the movie starred Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia de Havilland and went on to win multiple academy awards for its apparent ability to capture the Old South as it was before the coming of the American Civil War. Presently, the movie has become one of the classic romantic renditions of turbulent love affairs, with a particular emphasis on Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara, who, as they ...

The variability of stars existing within our universe represents diversity and uniqueness. Humanity may not observe the whole life of a single star, however, techniques have been proposed to study the stars. We have different ways how to measure a star's temperature, age, and mass even, even though it seems impossible.
The said variability of stars is key to the measurement of a star's characteristics. The existence of variable stars suggests that stars change on a time interval, unfortunately, too long humanity cannot observe. Nevertheless, humanity have developed a way of understanding the stars through their variability. Needless to say, variability provides unique ...

Overview of the Health Issue

There are four lifetime stages of alcohol use (Swendsen et al., 2012). These include use, regular use, abuse without dependence, and abuse with dependence. Similarly, there are four lifetime stages of illicit drug use. These include opportunity to use, first drug use, drug abuse without dependence, and drug abuse with dependence (Swendsen et al., 2012).Data from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) showed that 59.8% of the sample had alcohol use at some point in their lifetime. The prevalence was 78.2% among adolescents aged 17 to 18 years and 42.5% among those aged 13 to 14 years old ( ...

Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who was born in 1840 and under the Native American name Tashunka Witco near South Dakota. He got his name from his father, who was also named Crazy Horse after he showed the strong skills of a warrior. The Oglala Sioux Indian chief fought against the Black Hills reservations. He was known to be a fearless leader and remained committed to defending his people's way of life. The leader of the Lakota Sioux was also a legendary warrior who is known for his efforts to preserve Native American traditions and Lakota life that he was ...

The relationship between the revolution in France and Haiti

The Haitian Revolution resulted from a long fight on the fragment of the slaves in the French colony of St. Domingue, however was also driven by the free Mulattoes who had initially faced the prosecutions of being signified as semi-citizens. The revolution saw slavery to end and resulted to the establishment of the republic of Haiti. The colony of Saint-Domingue, geologically roughly the identical land mass that is currently Haiti was the lushest colony in the West Indies and perhaps the richest in the history of the globe. Driven by slave effort and enabled by rich soil and model climate, ...

Introduction

Racism denotes discrimination and prejudice that are anchored on social apprehensions of biological dissimilarity between people (Newman 1). Racism is orchestrated in the form of social actions or practices or political systems that perceive certain races to be inferior or superior on the account of qualities, abilities, and presumed shared inheritable straits (Newman 1). In addition, racism may prompt the treatment of others differently from the rest. Racism in the world soccer/football has raised eyebrows. Despite FIFA, the world’s soccer governing body’s policies and penalties, racism on the global stage in soccer has been on the rise. ...

Introduction

Terrorist activities are on the rise worldwide; USA has not been left behind following the recent Boston bombing attack. These attacks and constant threats lead to counteractive measures by governments in a bid to ensure their citizens’ safety. In respect to the US situation, the lives of Americans and other individuals end in these attacks. This causes fear among the citizens. The government has a responsibility of acting against these attacks; this ensures the safety of its citizens. The US Department of Justice prepared a secret 16-page memo in reference to the terrorism situation. This memo provides for the assassination of American ...

“Genocide” is the term used to describe a mass destruction of, or within a particular group, based on racial, religious, or ethnic discrimination, with deliberate and systematic motives. The term “Genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin, in the year 1944. Lemkin was a lawyer and his book “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe” introduced us to this term for the first time. According to Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide signifies a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” However, according to the Convention on the Prevention and ...

Introduction

“Single stories create stereotypes”, insists Adichie Chimamanda. A single is story is a case where one similar story is retold severally concerning an unfamiliar place or character. The main dangers associated with the single stories are the creation of half-truths, stereotypical perspectives, and biased thoughts about a place, a person, or an issue. Single stories are responsible for the stereotypes created on issues, for instance, single stories about continents such as Australia and Africa make the Americans believe that the places experience backwardness and animals respectively. “The balance of stories” as Chinua Achebe refers to it, is the direct opposite of the ...

Racism is a vice that has continued to affect African Americans years after it was declared inappropriate. To enhance equality in the America society, laws were passed to govern all American citizens with the objective of discouraging them from discrimination. After the passing of this law, the American courts were filled with cases where mostly African Americas were reporting some white somewhere for discriminating them. Despite all this efforts by the government and even various institutions, the gap between the blacks and whites in America remains to be large. It is unfortunate that some of the cases presented in court ...

History of the Jews in America is much less dramatic than history of the Jews that lived in Europe. In the USA, the Jews were not discriminated as it happened in Russia, Germany, France and other major countries. In addition, American Jews benefited from the “black-white” racial discourse that was popular in the USA for several centuries. As a result, they had more chances to be accepted in the American society than black people or other outsiders. Nevertheless, there were several short periods in American history when American Jews had to think of the ways how to protect their ...

The history of African Americans is an essential part of the whole history of the United States. Starting from the sixteenth century and the beginnings of slavery, Blacks had experienced a lot of struggles and had traveled the long path in order to achieve the social and political equality with western people. During their presence in the United States, they underwent a lot of events that contributed to their rise, supported their pride, and highlighted their racial identity. This paper aims to discuss four of such events and to analyze their mutual influence and significance for the establishment of ...

Currently, feminism is a social movement that has brought a tremendous effect on film criticism and theory. The cinema has been widely taken by feminists to be an ethnical practice depicting myths concerning women and femininity. As a result, the issues of spectatorship and representation are key to feminist film criticism and theory. In the past decades, feminist criticism was aimed at women particularly those in Hollywood movies. Such fixed, the endless repetition of images of women were conceived to be obnoxious distortions that would set back the female observer (Hilderbrand and Lucas 345). Nevertheless, the understanding dawned that ...

Over centuries, white supremacy always put domination on those who were fair-skinned than those who were black. There was white privilege that put the white ones ahead in freedom, opportunities and rights to the point that the black ones were left behind to be treated more as slaves, mainly because they lacked the higher value of having white skin color. This was the dehumanization of African peoples even in the United States, in which they were reduced to the status of a chattel just for the sake of enslavement, as well as, economic exploitation. There was white supremacy for ...

While the Civil War may have legally ended slavery, remnants of slavery and racial animosity continued to exist, and perhaps still do, in many parts of the country. Even after the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, which attempted to empower newly freed African American slaves and give them equal rights of citizenship, states managed to find ways to disenfranchise blacks from exercising their newly acquired rights of citizenship. Racial prejudice was especially pervasive in the South. The era of Jim Crow laws, which controlled nearly every aspect of Southern public life, maintained strict separation of whites and blacks (Welke, ...

Ethnicity and cultural identity is a major issue caused by cultural differences in our society today. Ethnic and cultural differences arise when people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds interact with each other. Culture is reflected through traditional ideas as well as values, and our response to various situations in life . Culture is deeply rooted in race and, as a result, different races have different ways of reacting to various situations such as parenting. This paper will examine the African American community in relation to our values, norms and beliefs and the role played by my immediate environment and ...

Liberty. Among the most widely putative theories of liberty is that there must be a single predominant formula under which all the comprehensible locutions about personal freedom and liberation. The pervasiveness of this notion largely influences Gerald MacCallum’s classic article, “Negative and Positive Freedom”. The author provides that the need for freedom of an individual is realized once an element of constraint is determined. These elements of constraints prevent individuals from becoming or becoming something. Liberation is a triadic relation between individuals, constraints, and ends. To ensure full liberty, the constraints to the “ends” should be completely inexistent. These insights ...

Introduction

“Indulge in the Color of Passion” is the ad’s attention grabbing slogan. The product is the Color Sensational Lipcolor, where the model, Christy, was explicitly identified to be wearing the Red Revival shade . The advertisement is featured in the Family Circle magazine and captures the audience’s interest due to the attractive face that is magnified in the ad; needed to focus on the sensual red-colored lips of the model. The advertisement is likewise filled with the predominantly red color, aside from the model’s lips, there is the half-hidden image of a red rose, with the other half ...

The Western constitutional philosophy is based on the concepts of free choice, free markets, and free enterprises. Yet early societies did not enjoy unlimited freedom since both nature and society impose constraints on minority societies. According to the social contract theory, the rational is to provide for the existence of society as the business increases the freedom of individuals. Freedom and its limits as a concept have traditionally played a significant role in the history of Western thought, drawing attention from thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Rawls. American psychologist, Alexis DeTocqueville regarded personal freedom as the overriding value ...

In the past century and a half, the American people have undergone tremendous changes, both in disposition and social advancement. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, and the development of the major modern city, workers have been required to adapt in order to survive. With the world becoming smaller, people of all races and economic classes have had to work together and find ways to coexist, particularly in the workforce. In the experience of labor movements in the United States from the late nineteenth century to today, certain themes have emerged over and over again as central to the ...

Black Music

What’s happening? Black Music.
1. (a) Reggae artist, Duane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson is a non-dancehall reggae artist. The reggae sound and beat are not the up-front of the sound; they are the foundation on which his singing voice and his message comfortably perch. His voice is serious even when he sings; he sounds like an old man, probably because he is mature and thoughtful. His fans describe his voice as wise.1

Stephenson’s albums may be too mellow and well, boring to some. His lyrics are strong so he doesn’t let the music overwhelm his message. He ...

Martha Stewart is one of the most successful icons in America. She is the founder of Martha Stewart Omni media and a magazine publisher. She is also a television personality and business magnate whose TV show has been broadcasted all over the world.
In 2004 she was convicted of lying to investigators about a stoke sale and served five month term in Alderson federal prison camp. This is a federal bureau of prisons for women of the United States in West Virginia. The prison is surrounded by towns which include Alderson, summers county, Hinton, Lewisburg, Ronceverte and white silver springs. It is ...

The Impact of Racial Ethnic Americans.

Introduction

The purpose of this presentation is to explore ways in which people of color and minority groups are represented in various cultural forms. It is hoped that this would create greater understanding of how these images are connected to particular events in their American history. Art, music, film, literary forms are some artifacts that would be highlighted as references. Importantly, perceptions of ethnicity and racial profiling have all emerged from these socio- cultural factors.
Consequently, the writer chooses to divide this paper into two distinct components. First, a brief discussion of the films ‘ethic notions,’ ‘spirit of crazy ...

INTRODUCTION

This paper outlines Marxian concepts in Workfare Street Cleaner, Crime Scene Cleaner, Poultry Factory Worker, and Stripper as in Bowe J Bowe’s book Gig: Americans talk about their jobs. The paper will use case studies drawn from Bowe’s book to explain the concepts. The study shows how Americans feel about their jobs and then relates their opinions to the concepts of Marxist theory.

CRIME SCENE CLEANER

Neal Smither is the owner of Crime Scene Cleaners. Their work involves cleaning up death scenes like homicides, accidental deaths, and suicide. He started the job after he lost his job at a mortgage-banking ...

Use of Video Games among the Youth

Introduction
The exercise of video games has been on the rise with the increased use of computers and the internet. Video games have grown to form one of the most popular entertainment industries in North America. The sale of entertainment software in North America grew by 3.4%. There is a growing concern of the use of video games amongst the youth. Majority of the video game enthusiasts are aged between 6-17 years. The growing use of video games raised concern amongst researchers. There is the concern of the content that video games have on teenagers. Also there is a growing ...

Oliver L. Brown, et. al. vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, et. Al
The number of plaintiffs totaled up to thirteen and they were parents representing their children. Oliver Brown represented his daughter Linda who was a third grader. The basis of the case was racial discrimination in schooling. The Educational Fund and the legal defense of NAACP represented a big group including Jews who were invited by Mr. Brown as Amicus Curiae (friend of the court). At the district court Oliver lost the case but applied for an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. It is in ...

Abstract

Alcohol is the most widely abused drugs in the world by young people in college and learning institutions. This paper will examine the effect of alcohol consumption to the college students on their aggressiveness. The study conducted by interviewing 30 respondents who were the college student. The student was given a survey question are continuing question of their drinking behaviors. The students were also asked to respond to the questions on their aggressiveness and the effect of their drinking habits on the academic performance. The hypothesis of the study is the more the alcohol consumed, the higher the aggressiveness of ...

Literature:

Quicksand by Nella Larsen is a book riddled with symbolism as well as ideologies. It delves deep into the ugly world of racial discrimination and racism. It also deals with identity and acceptance issues. It was very easy for either white people or black people to choose sides when it came to racism. Everyone knew what side to support. People of mixed races however did not have that luxury. They found themselves sitting on the fence and more often than not being rejected by both sides. This raised deep psychological issues in mixed race people as they struggled to find ...

African-American Crops in America: An Overview

The wide range of food crops was directly brought from Africa throughout the transatlantic slave trade. These staple foods were eaten by enslaved African-American. The foods were blended with meat and fish, or with the palm oil. The meals used by the African-Americans comprised of black-eyed peas, okra, callaloo, seasoned with pepper and salt.
Other food crops from the African continent included peanuts, sorghum, melon, watermelon, yams, and sesame. These harvests were incorporated into the mainstream American foodways and were a well-known major ingredient found in the original cookbooks written by local Southern Americans. All through the period, though, ...

The African-American slavery history can be traced through different visual and literary artworks made by different artists of the 19th and early 20th century.
As a form of revolt, African-Americans who were victims of prejudice, discrimination, and slavery showcased their talents and created different masterpieces of art that depicted their loud cry for liberty which contributed greatly to the movement towards their freedom. White abolitionists wrote speeches to refute the belief that Black Americans could not learn basic literary and make decisions on their own. African-American abolitionists also started to write and spoke about the freedom and emancipation of ...

Dilemma over embracing or escaping from Yoruba culture

One is likely to encounter cases of death in a society comprised of different groups of people who are not willing to understand each others’ cultural practices and customs. Such is the case in Wole Soyinka’s Death and a King’s Horseman. Soyinka does a brilliant job using different layers of conflict as he tells the story of Elesin, who is prevented from fulfilling his duty of his ritual suicide by the British, who view the custom as illegal and barbaric while the colonized Yoruba view his suicide as not only a tribal obligation, but a world’s obligation to maintain peace between ...

Migratory History It is said that ethnic Chinese first appeared on the western shores of North America during the period of the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which is about between 1521 to 1815. They had accepted commissions as being businessmen, sailors and fishermen on the Spanish galleons that traversed the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico (Brownstone, 2). Several numbers of ethnic Chinese were able to reach California as this state was still the territory of Mexico until 1848. Future expeditions to Vancouver by John Meares, a British fur trader, brought more Chinese into Vancouver around ...

Africa has traditionally been a continent of mixed fortunes, where real-life stories of hope and despair abound. African traditions, values and customs have been slowly influenced by colonization and eventual globalization that has turned the world into a global village. The novel, Things fall apart, is a reflection of the extent to which Africans were tied to their beliefs and customs, as a violation of those customs was regarded as being disrespectful to the gods. Resistance to the new values and beliefs as brought by the missionaries are resisted since the communities regard them as inclined on disrupting the ...

The American and European continent seem to be the most widely associated with multiculturalism and diversity. America is a country host to millions of people belonging to various backgrounds, ethnicities, religious and races who have somehow assimilated and learned to live together. There are many questions that have been raised against the term, whether multiculturalism is beneficial for a country or does it degrade its status. The problem is that a country is mainly known for a typical kind of people establishing a certain area and living in it. For example, they might be of the same skin color, ...

Introduction

This essay will investigate the definition of deviance in society from a sociological perspective. It will then define what it means to be socially deviant. This essay will go onto investigate what impacts deviance has on society. This essay will conclude that for some sociologists, deviance performs a necessary function in society that help establish and reaffirm our social norms, and can help us fix the problems within it
The term deviance in sociology refers to an act that violates the standard social norms in a society (White et al, 2000). Succinctly it is a transgression of any kind ...