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Generally, African Americans were subjects to bona fide abuse and division from the bit of white Americans, who hold the major position in the American culture and utilized their capacity to hold African Americans under their control. The recorded movement of African American culture was joined by the constant conflict of African Americans for social…

Being a black woman has been a struggle for many generations. You have consistent pressure to act a certain way and if you don’t act that way your acting black. It feels like carrying the weight for black history and all the black women that come after you. For African American women race, gender, and…

Have you ever thought of power and how it affects communities of color? When power is taken away, people are being systematically disenfranchised. “Systematically disenfranchised” means to purposely take power away from a community or person. For example communities of color have been through experiences like this, such as being treated unequal because of how…

On a cool, crisp Saturday morning, a mother watching her eight-year old son play in a peewee football game becomes dowsed with fear. The safety of her precious little boy is unpredictably risked every play of the game. Even with this large fear for her son’s safety, this extraordinarily loving mother allows her young little…

When looking for a site for this Critical Core signature assignment I stumbled across us.history.org. I had never used us.history.org before, however I found the site quite insightful. While taking history, this site can help students write biographies, research papers, and give further information on topics being taught. When looking over the site I felt…

I Am Malala is about a young girl who lives in the Swat valley in Pakistan. Malala’s novel is written in first person and Malala is the narrator. Malala goes to school even though most girls in her village are not supposed to or think that it’s not right for a girl to get a…

Nikki Giovanni made her grand appearance to this world on June 7, 1943 as Yolande Cornelia Giovanni. She was one of the first Black Art Movement poets to reach fame, fame that was brought to her by shameless forms of activism towards violence. Her prominence in the poetry world grew vastly as her goal was…

Identity politics are people that base there identities on social class. For example, a feminist that always votes for female candidates strictly because they are female or African americans believing that police officers are to get them because of their skin color. Another example is women believing men treat them differently because they are female….

In the early nineteen-century black women developed their own movements to make changes in their times and for the future, generally focusing on the race, gender, and class. Also, women fought to be seen as “human”, during slavery blacks were treated poorly, many were abuse physical, emotional, treated as property as if they Baker. These…

Marvel’s Black Panther received critical acclaim not only because of portrayal of a superhero’s journey but more so about the black cultures journey. Not only was the film a box office hit but it was dubbed as a cultural phenomenon. The movie celebrates the black culture in different mediums. For example, the racial dynamics present…