Sample African American Essays to Ease Your Writing Task

Introduction

Cultural Diversity occurs in a wide perspective, which can be studied and analyzed to enhance one’s understanding of a society’s cultural structural arrangement (Schmidt, 2006). The various perspectives of Cultural diversity are inclusive of; race, ethnicity, gender, social class et cetera. The United States is one of the countries characterized by an ethnically diverse population such as: White Americans, Hispanic, Latinos, and Black-Americans among other ethnic groups. In the perspective of Harris (2001), the corpus of ethnicity entails belonging to a socially defined category or group of people. This research will focus on ethnicity as an aspect Continue reading...

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...

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...

Introduction

The American society from the nineteenth century offers a good example of how bondage, oppression and capitalism shaped and redefined the lives of black Americans. There is no shortage of accounts of how blacks were enslaved and how African American women operated in the slave society. These women were seen as laborers, concubines, and breeders, and motherhood offered a distinctive position for the black women (Littlefield).
The majority of the related to Women and Slavery in America come from the nineteenth century, and these documents reveal as to how slavery affected the daily lives of African American women. Slavery 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...

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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...