African American Essays Samples That Help You Write Better, Faster & with Gusto

Successful African-Americans come from all walks of life and socioeconomic backgrounds. However, their success stories share some common themes, including an emphasis on the important of education, strong family support and values, hard work, tenacity, mentorship, responsibility, and passing on to other generations. African-Americans experienced racism, poverty and a lack of opportunities. To become successful, create positive change and social justice required more than talent and hard work. It required a supportive family, educational opportunities and mentorship from older and more experienced person.
For a variety of reasons, there have not been many African American quarterbacks in the NFL. Continue reading...

Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Exposition Address” and W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” are works that show different viewpoints of the equality of African-Americans by two of their leaders. This discussion will be based on these two writings, analyzing what each author thinks about the issue of equality of African-Americans.
Washington has his own distinct approach on what African-Americans need to do so as to help in terminating racism and segregation in America. Washington proposes that African-Americans should start at the bottom of the system rather than from the top so as to first Continue reading...

Introduction: How Racism constructs a stereotyped identity for African-American writers

An African-American writer, Percival Everett, authored the book Erasure. Erasure tells the story of an African-American writer known as Thelonius Ellison, who also goes by the nickname “Monk.” Ellison has not gained as much acclaim as his writing warrants. His work has been rejected supposedly because it does not conform to particular standards that are expected of African-American literature. His books deal with Greek myths instead of addressing the struggles of the ghetto as the stereotypes on African-American literature dictate (Everett 3). Ellison is bitter at this state of affairs, and he decides to lash out at those he Continue reading...

Most people enjoy watching movies. Whether the characters and storylines make us laugh or cry or just provide us an escape from our everyday lives for a few hours, movies are a tool many of us use to help us traverse life. Movies are also a gateway into another world, they provide us insight into lives and experiences we may not be privy to. The movies that seek to do more than just entertain us, to make us more aware of the world and question our views and opinions, can be a powerful tool to help us better understand Continue reading...

Introduction

Racial profiling is the practice of specifically targeting a group of people or individuals based entirely on their racial or ethnic origins. Most of the racial profilers believe that specific ethnic or racial groups have the predisposition to commit crimes and break the law. Shooting incidents of people from a particular race or ethnicity are common all over the United States, indicating racial profiling is still prevalent within the society. Racial profiling is based on assumptions and beliefs that are misplaced and untrue, forming the basis of innocent shootings and death in the name of profiling (Alexander 55).
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Mid term
1. A. Why does the United States have the highest rate of incarceration in the world?
There are an over one million American citizens incarcerated today; that constitutes for 2.5% of the American Nation’s population and twenty-five percent of the world’s total population of incarcerated people. The spike in incarceration rates seems to have jumped exponentially in the late 1980s and continuing to increase steadily in the years to follow. Although the arrests in the 1980s and early 1990s were drug related, it was also the same period during which the Congress increased the jail Continue reading...

For my research paper on “Black Women in Feminism and the Media” I will be writing about the issue of Black Women and HIV/AIDS. This is one of the most disturbing and prevalent issue in our society today. The infectious nature of HIV, the high-priced retroviral medication and the weakening of the human immune system makes AIDS an epidemic. However, it is my opinion that in case of Black women, there is a larger problem surrounding this particular case. Women have been discriminated against through ages and the discrimination against African Americans has also been historical. This paper is Continue reading...

Analysis of Qualitative Nursing Research Study

FULL AND COMPLETE REFERENCE FOR THE ARTICLEPhillips, J., & Cohen, M. (2011). The Meaning of Breast Cancer Risk for African American Women. Journal of Nursing Scholarship , 43(3), 239–247.

The high mortality and prognostic factors among African American women despite the generally lower incidence of the same (compared to white women). The risk perceptions and associated behaviours of high-risk, young black women are unknown and this study sought to fill this gap

Why is the problem an important one for nursing to study?

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent and deadly diseases in the United States and elsewhere in the world but despite the advancements in the detection, Continue reading...

Chapter 1: Introduction

The death penalty is one of the oldest forms of punishments in the world. It was quite popular with colonial powers that enjoyed trampling the rights of the indigenous populations. However as time progressed, especially after the second world war the popular opinion was that the death penalty was barbaric. Several countries rewrote their laws to allow this punishment only for extremely rare cases of brutality or for traitors. The United States and her laws were most sought after during this period. Several European countries framed their laws to resemble the American natural law.

Background

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Who is the biography about? Why are they important within the context of leadership in the African Diaspora? 
The biography is about Malcolm Little, also known as Malcolm X. He is an American Muslim who advocated for the rights of the black and remained as human rights activist all his life. Malcolm X is one of the important historical figures in the African-American society who fought and took pride in popularizing his ideas especially about black youth as well as the Black Movement from 1960s – 1970s. Malcolm X appeared as the voice Continue reading...

Blacks were not mistreated during the Jim Crow era.

In the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the United States Congress passed three monumental pieces of legislation. The first one was the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery for eternity. The second one was the Fourteenth Amendment. This indicated that no state was allowed to pass any law, which would deny any individual who fell under its jurisdiction equal protection from the law. The other amendment was the Fifteenth Amendment, which stated that each citizen had a right to vote, regardless of his or her race. Comprehensively, these amendments were known as the Reconstruction Amendments. These amendments aimed Continue reading...

In the article Delusions of Grandeur by Henry Louis Gates, it becomes apparent that most African American children and youth aspire to become professional athletes more than they do other professions that require solid classroom education. The sad reality is that there are very few professionals in sports as compared to those who pursue education to become professional lawyers, dentists, surgeons and even teachers. But again, it is the society that has conditioned children and the youth to think that athletics and sports are the only sure way of making it in life. But again, Gates mentions the fact Continue reading...

Improve the Case of HIV/AIDS in the United States

Improve the Case of HIV/AIDS in the United States
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) had been a phenomenon for the past decades in the United States, especially among African American citizens. In the US, more than a million citizens were said to be infected with the virus, and there are more than 17,700 death casualties that took place only in 2009, in spite of the programs implemented to fight this syndrome (Lanier, 2013, p.1). Meanwhile, in over a span of three continuous decades, the total number of deaths had reached 619,400 casualties Continue reading...

The two people under analysis are Andrew Johnson, who is the seventeenth President of the United States and who was the head of the country in the period of 1865-1869, and Booker Taliaferro Washington who was a principal advisor, educator, orator and author of the American Presidents. The two famous persons are famous for their contribution into the history and state of the US government. Andrew Johnson has gained his popularity when he became the US President after Lincoln’s assassination, as he served as Vice-President at that time. Johnson’s governing years are characterized by a political conflict Continue reading...

Tim Wise felt that it is not because he is not talking to the congregation as the most informed individual on white privilege or the best speaker on racism subject. Rather, he gave the talk because of privilege. He is able to give the talk on the subject because he has the privilege to be listened to by the subject itself. The privilege or the advantage that he has challenges him with responsibility and accountability to give the talk on behalf of the people of color. The people of color do not have this privilege to be listened to Continue reading...

Introduction

The two poems-Harlem and Sympathy-show what became of the dream of the Black Americans . They are both focused on the dreams and hopes of the Black American, and the underlying impeding factors to achieving it. In the poem Harlem, the dream seems like a load that weight heavily on the dreamer’s shoulders with no hope of actualization. On the other hand, the poem, Sympathy, explains the frustration that comes with the lack of the ability to actualize the dream, and the effect of any attempts to do so-injury, torture and pain. The two poems are similar in theme, Continue reading...

Does justice have a color? Issues of racism in the criminal justice system

Racism in the criminal justice system has been one of the most disturbing facets of the criminal justice system. The US criminal justice system has been tarnished with an alarming and inequitable impact on racial and fringe sectors in society (Justice Policy Institute, 2015, p. 1) However, it can also be said that racism is based on the imposition of the dominant class of its “stamp” over the “lower, more inferior” classes in society. Majority of the 20th century saw the factors of criminality and retribution as the defining characters of the racial gap in the United States.
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The object of the study is to explore whether there is a relationship between music, video games, and stress leading to deviance behavior. That is, the current research is aimed at understandings whether music predicts deviant behavior, whether video games are linked to deviance, and whether stress is linked to deviant behavior. To determine whether there is whether music, video games, and stress predict deviance, a literature review will be conducted. I chose this study because there is an increasing prevalence of deviant behaviors hence the need to establish the causes. Therefore, reading of my research is important because it helps the reader to understand the factors linked to deviance. Consequently, readers will be in a better position to reduce the increasing prevalence of deviance among the youth. The project fits within the existing literature because it helps to clarify whether deviance is associated with each of the variables mentioned earlier.

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Idea of Absolute Freedom in the poems of Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” These words of Charlotte Brontë depict the idea of the eternal theme of freedom and defense of liberty. The history of racial inequality in the USA during 1950s and the struggle for equality is reflected in the work of African-American writers Langston Hughes and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This movement has stopped racial discrimination in various fields In the twelve years of nonviolent struggle for civil rights. This movement had awakened in black Americans self-esteem, pride and self-confidence, contributed to mutual Continue reading...

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Introduction
Native Americans and African Americans have had a commonality aspect in their culture; however, each view of culture is different from the other especially on norms, beliefs, and practices. Categorically, the paper will shed light on power distance, gender equalitarianism, clothing, time, organizing and expressing ideas, greeting rituals, dealing with conflicts, eating customs and dining etiquette. Notably, their cultural orientations, non-verbal and verbal communication differs and it is from this view that the paper seeks to contact a comparative analysis on the two cultures.

Compared to American culture, the power distance of in the African American culture is Continue reading...