Essays on Afro

The essay is based on the studies of McIntosh, Wise, Shams, DiAngelo, Graham, and Dyson. According to the studies of these authors, privilege is considered as a communal theory which states that exceptional rights or compensations are obtainable only to a group of people. Furthermore, privilege is regularly used in the framework of social inequity, mainly in regard to ethnic, gender, and racial category. 1. White Privilege According to authors, the practices that make white privilege is that the political sector including healthcare organizations and school gives more source of pride to the Native Americans. The authors in their ...

Nowadays the obesity in the United Stated has become a serious issue. In fact, 60% of the U.S population are overweight or suffer from obesity. In addition, Black and Latin populations are facing these risks more frequently than White ones. Moreover, 68 thousands U.S. adults are suffering from fatness due to low education levels or the least available sources for exercising and healthy dieting. These people also suffer from such diseases as diabetes and high blood pressure (Day, 2006). It is very important to mention that there are several factors, which have a direct influence on the way these ...

Institutional Racism towards Black Americans

Racism, as several experts describe, has been a way of life, for quite some time in the United States (Nesbit). The rise of the pre-colonial era, and immigrations, slavery and the way people drifted towards different shores in search of power can all be accounted to the present day situation that we face in America. While slavery and apartheid ended long before, what is left over is our own complicated melee of whites, blacks, and Asians, and many more races, in a mixed colorful bouquet, and yet, creating a lot of confusion in the minds of both people and ...

Abstract

For decades, Afro-American have been facing higher incarceration, higher poverty rate and lower income in the United States as compared to White American. In every city of U.S, Afro-American face similar problem, although such problems are worse in some part of the state. The Afro-American in the city of Miami also face problems such mental illness, poverty, poor access to health services, crimes, accidents, violence and others which impact their way of life negatively. Mental health is linked to socioeconomic status as the people who are homeless, or have the problem of substance abuse have a higher risk of ...

Europe’s history, especially in the colonial and imperial periods created new connections and networks between parts of the world. European expansion starting the in the sixteenth century led to its expansion into the Americas and the concurrent creation of the slave trade of entirely new populations in the imperial periphery. Additionally, in the nineteenth century with the so-called “Scramble for Africa” meant that Europe had new colonies on the continent itself. With the process of decolonization this meant that these populations both from the Americas especially the Caribbean could migrate into the European metropole. This created an African ...

Introduction

Katherine Dunham is a legendary dancer and choreographer whose contributions to the dance culture are admirable and great. She is an important figure to the dance culture because of her revolutionary and transformative choreography in the 1930’s. She revolutionized dance styles in America by investigating and establishing the roots of African and Caribbean dance and rituals and transforming them into critical creative choreography that resonates with all. She also pioneered the use of ethnic and folk choreography by introducing it to mainstream dance styles and fusing them. Katherine further founded the anthropological dance movement; showing the whole world ...

Salsa is a dance style which originates from the Afro-Caribbean and Latin part of the world and it reflects the culture of this region. This dance spread all over the world and each culture adopted it and enrichened it with their specific elements. Salsa is a lifestyle, it has many health benefits when regarded as exercising, its culture is very interesting and the history of this dance is rich and each person tells their personal story through the dance. Salsa is a lifestyle which reflects the personality of each individual involved in the process. Every person has their unique ...

The modern life of ours is largely dependent on what our ancestors did and did not do. The history, which is in the best words the recording of the flow of events, has a considerable impact on the way the society evolved. In fact, society itself is the product of historical dramatic changes. In these terms, since the dawn of our civilization, human beings had got used to documenting all the key episodes of their lives. However, some of the historical archives may consist of fake material, wrong opinions, and fabricated facts. Such a way of disguising the truth ...

Multi-Ethnic Food in the US

The United States boasts one of the world's most racially and ethnically diverse populations as people move from their home countries in search of greener pastures in the stateside. And with them, they bring their culture that includes their literature, music and food. Ethnic food in the country is only increasing, and it has led to the establishment of many restaurants that lure both the natives of the country and offering their fellow people a taste of their home. By estimation, this year alone the ethnic food industry should bring in a revenue of about $3.9 billion dollars and ...

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Cien Añosde Soledad) is a magical realist novel created by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967. This novel is referred to as the Don Quixote of Latin America because of its overwhelming popularity (Jay Corwin, 4). The novel does not have any clear and obvious philosophy that is why the perception of this novel is very individualistic. The tragic and mystique ending pushes to the idea that multiple aspects of life that are described in the novel are heavily criticized by García Márquez (Jay Corwin, 4). And one of these ...

During the American Revolution in the 1770s, African Americans soldiers participated in valor. Some were fighting for the Britain colonialists while others were fighting for American patriots in their struggle for independence. The slaves fought alongside their masters so that they could get human rights and freedoms enjoyed by other Americans. During this time, slavery was at peak, and most African Americans were under servitude and gross abuse of their rights (Matthews 369). Slaves imported from Africa and other parts of the world were sold to slave masters especially in the North. When the revolutionary war ended, most soldiers ...

Racism continues to be a major problem in America though people ignore the fact that it continues to exist. Many state that the end of slavery and the birth of civil rights ended racism. The few who believe in the vice state that it exist in how people carry out their day-to-day activities. For instance, it is common for people, especially leaders, to condemn racism yet they act it out a few moments later on a particular individual. I believe most of the people who preach it, do not live it. From the lesson, it was clear that racism ...

Hello Dave,

You know, a couple days ago I watch a TV show where the theme of intolerance was slightly noticed. The thing is in this ‘slightly’ – it seems like nowadays only a few people can clearly formulate its origins and reasons it still exists. With it, I also remembered the movie Crash, which also discussed some racial tensions (Crash). It was as if the TV show and movie were pulling me in the same direction. Maybe it is a coincidence, but on our last lecture we had some topics connected with this problem. Thus, in this letter I will try ...

Question 1 – The Silk Road

The Silk Road is thought to have been pioneered by Zhang Qian who chose to open well known ancient trade roads. Between 139 BC and 119 BC, he traveled bring with him massive amounts of data about Western Asia and Central Asia. Originally thought to be termed as such by German geographer Ferninand on Richthoten during the 1870s, the Silk Road was not actually one single road but a series of routes, treks and trips throughout Central Asia, as East met North; the major players in this new intra-territorial and overseas ventures were the Mediterranean, Greece and Asia (Waugh, ...

Arturo Sandoval is an outstanding musician who had to overcome a lot of difficulties in order to be able to do the job he was born to – playing the jazz music. Life of Sandoval recalls a musical history book that describes two disparate worlds. For the people who were raised up in the States, it may be hard to imagine what obstacles Arturo Sandoval was faced with to become a jazz musician. He is a great son of Cuba, and this country should be proud of him, but when Sandoval was at the beginning of his career, the government ...

Summary of Cornel West’s Race Matters

The book Race Matters by Cornel West was published in the year 2001. In the book, the author addresses the issue of racism from a spiritual and political perspective. He explains how racism affects both whites and Afro-Americans and criticizes the various approaches that have been used to deal with racism. He tries to find equality between these two races and his objective is to ensure that the whites do not have too much power. He argues that the anger that the blacks have towards the whites is a result of oppression experienced during slavery and also the nihilism ...

Women in African culture

Nowadays we live in times of women emancipation. Men and women are equal in their rights and any display of gender discrimination is punishable by law. However, such situation was not common less then hundred years ago. The role of women in any society is hard to reevaluate. Women give birth to new people, they take care of their relatives, are homemakers and muses. Moreover, in era of women emancipation they run business and even rule countries. Such statements especially true for women in developed countries. Let us find out women’s position in Africa. At the beginning of ...

Footnote: sources used are Cannon, de la Fuente, Dominguez, Laing, Shecaira,

Skidmore, Steur and Telles. Comparative Racism Between the United States, Cuba and Brazil Racism in the Americas is the societal result of colonization that took place from the end of the fifteenth century to the neo-colonialism of the last century. Then, as these eras ended, different countries adapted to the plurality of races that now existed in their own ways, some better than others. In most cases, but not all, there was European-American sentiment of superiority over other races that they now lived with. They now had freed slaves that they mistreated and subverted for hundreds of years, as ...