Essays on Black Men

The story “How to Date a Brown Girl” is told as pointers for African men, or black men. The story tells the expectations coming from a white, or half-white woman when she dates an African guy. Nevertheless, the story, in general, is about trying to win a woman, despite the differences in color and race (Diaz 1-3). The story speaks about the truth of the current society. It may be coming from the author’s experience or not, but the feeling of negativity can be seen in every part of the story. It is as if the author is ...

Ethnic stratification is a phenomenon creating division and inequality based on difference among people of various backgrounds. It is an unavoidable issue in regions where the population is largely diverse. The United States of America is a nation where a multitude of diversity exists in various forms. Many include gender, race, religion, sexuality, and social class. As the most powerful nation in the world, America is infamous for the inequalities that exist among its dominant white citizens versus all the minorities that reside in the country. Not only is race a sign of superiority in this nation, but the ...

The positive aspects of Booker T. Washington’s position on the assimilation of blacks into the free communities of the United States revolve around his recognition of the rigid color line that existed at the time. Even with a Civil War tarnishing the nation’s history, traditions remained unchanged and white supremacy was the epitome of American cultural norms. To that end, Washington’s argument that persons of African descent ought to “cast down [their] bucket where [they were]” is perhaps the best advice anybody could have given the ex-slaves (1895, par.4). After all, the abolition of slavery not ...

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Over thirty years after its identification, HIV and AIDS remains a somewhat elusive virus, particularly when it comes to its history as a human infectious agent, and resourcing a complete epidemiology of the disease. Part of the problem is that so many antiretroviral drugs have come out and have either been used or prescribed incorrectly. In addition, the virus, like many other reverse RNA transcriptase viruses, has a very high aptitude in terms of developing resistance to drugs at a very rapid rate. What further complicates matters is how quickly it has spread. It will probably never truly be ...

Introduction: Historically, female Black slaves endured the worse treatment, but have received the least amount of attention than their male counterparts in North American Slavery (Hine, 2007). There are longstanding myths that surround the experiences of female Black slaves, and struggles they face daily trying to survive. Deborah Gray White provides an intimate look into female slavery that until 1985 was long overdue. In her book she stated “Slave women were the only women in America who were sexually exploited with impunity, stripped and whipped with a lash, and worked like oxen” (White, 1999, p. 162). In the nineteenth ...

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Main post starting a thread: “Closing the Wealth Gap: A Review of Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Homeownership” by Meghan Kuebler Home ownership does not represent an equally realizable goal for all groups in the society, despite the fact that it is a very important investment that may secure a family’s future for generations to come. Although owning a home has been part of the American dream historically, not all groups in the society have had equal access to this privileged position as home owner. In reality, Whites are more likely than any other racial group to own ...

These authors primarily talk about gender, race, and class discrimination in the United States of America. For instance, Margret& Patricia titled their work, "why Race, Class, and Gender still matter." The discussion is based on how different people in the United States are affected by different types of discrimination based on where they live, their color and gender. Although America seems like one of the less discriminative countries in the world, there are still central areas and situations where it is practiced. Through electing, the first black president, Barrack Obama, the war on discrimination of color seems to be ...

When attempting to influence an audience it is important for the speaker or writer to establish the relationship he or she has towards the audience from the beginning. Whether reading or listening, the receiver will establish the speaker’s virtue and goodwill towards the audience. Nevertheless, it is important to note that a messenger may also perverse this in order to use this in his or her favor. For example, Brent Staples, in his essay “Black Men and Public Spaces”, presents himself as a literate yet dangerous interlocutor. One can see this from his paragraph, due to his use ...

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Black Lives Matter has grown from a hashtag to an activist group. Black Lives Matter is an issue that will be explored in this document from a psychoanalytical perspective. The qualitative instrument that is used will measure several documentations of behaviors of said members of the group, as well as those who consider that their view coincides, or who has participated with the group known as Black Lives Matter. The research model begins with the history of the group itself. In other words, each documentation following the abstract has been assessed as a part of the qualitative research that ...

Police brutality has sparked up a lot of tension and chaos in the recent past. This form of brutality refers to any unnecessary excessive force applied to victims by the police (Bird and Smith, 93). Members of the black community are often the victims of this brutality. Young black males have been killed in cold blood by the police who claim that the former are armed and are a threat to their lives. What has sparked a lot of anger is the fact that some of the slain men are usually unarmed is and a non-threat to the police. ...

Blacks were brought to America for the purpose of slavery to work for the whites. Blacks were used to enrich the whites. Every institution in early America was created for the white people and controlled by the white people. When slavery was abolished, it was replaced with segregation. This is how systemic racism originated in the United States. Systemic racism is exists in the United States and has been present since its creation by a Constitution that promoted racism. The drafters of the Constitution savagely debated the issue of slavery, not addressing the issue of placing other humans in ...

The Post War society was going through a transition period. The milestone document of the United Nations in the history of mankind is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). With this document, the United Nations have protected human rights regardless of gender, race, religion ethnicity etc. The United Nations agreed that every person is free by born and he/she should be respected. He/she must be considered as human being and thus her rights of freedom must be protected. The two incidents were very important in the world history; first is the Civil Rights Movement and the feminist movement. ...

In 1960, a group of students called the “Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” (SNCC) began to organize sit-ins with black students who would walk into restaurants throughout the south and sit in places designated for “whites only.” This stirred up a debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin, who both played a prominent role in the history of the fight against the nation’s racial inequality that led to the Civil Rights Movement. Each of the men had some interesting, valid, and unique perspectives on their thoughts about the sit-ins that were occurring across the south that resulted in the ...

The article fly girls, hoes and bitches by Jon Morgan is a study into how African American men display their feminist ideologies through hip hop music. Besides the numerous challenges that the black woman faces simply because of her race, black women are further subjected to feminism by their fellow black men. Women are alienating themselves from the abusive nature of men as the number of marriages between blacks reduce from 70 percent to 38 percent within the last 30 years. Sexism is on the rise with black men targeting their fellow black women. As women become more involved ...

Since there were two films that had to be featured in this study (i.e. Salt and Crash) and two sociological concepts had to be discussed, the author of this paper has decided to allocate one sociological concept for each movie. Evidence of the said sociological concepts were obtained by analyzing at least two scenes from each movie, which means that there should at least be four scenes that can be found and analyzed in this paper. The sociological concepts were chosen mainly based on the central themes of each movie. For Salt, for example, its central theme appears to ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s historical speech “I Have a Dream” has been a pivotal moment in history for black America. As a leader of the Civil Rights movement, MLK had a great vision of justice and equality for black men, women, and children that had not been honored by white America. Despite the signing of the Proclamation of Emancipation a hundred years prior to MLK’s speech, black people still lived segregated and in oppression. It was MLK’s brave and courageous stance that empowered black people throughout America to begin the non-violent fight for what should have ...

According to Michelle Alexander, the black men are not only absent because they are running away from their responsibilities, but also because they are discriminated in almost all sections of the society. Alexander points to the fact that the black men face so many factors like mass incarcerations and discrimination in the workplace that may take them away from their responsibilities. Alexander also argues that the idea of black men running from their responsibilities may not be true. The idea that black men are racially discriminated by the social, economic, political, and justice systems is true. The black man ...

'A New Look at Black Families' is an enlightening book written by Charles Willie and Richard Reddick. The book focuses on explaining how black families in America go about their dealings. By use of case studies the authors are able to depict an array of Black family experiences and how socio economic status affects these experiences. The book does not only try to portray the working, low-income, and middle class families but also hints on the life of highly successful African Americans, their family experiences and the environmental factors that drove them to achieve success. The authors of this ...

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 ...

Motherhood is a sacred act for each woman. It is the most powerful and spiritual component of a woman’s life. Published in 1987, “Beloved” by Toni Morrison depicts heart-wrenching lives of African slaves and explores the mother-child relationship and the experience of black women in an unjust and prejudiced society. “Beloved” was based on the real story of a slave woman called Margaret Garner who killed her own child. This masterpiece emphasizes the barbaric and cruel effects of slavery and oppression of black women in the circumstances of racial inequality and abusive behaviors. They were not allowed to ...

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The Tuskegee Experiment was a scientific research study conducted on 399 black men between 1932 and 1972. Starting in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service started an experiment with a vaguely defined mission. Taking mostly illiterate and poor black men from a rural southern area, they offered the prospect of free medical care and described the medical attention as an effort to cure “bad blood”, when in fact all 399 participants were suffering from tertiary syphilis. None of the participants were ever told that they carried the disease nor were they offered any form of ...

“This is the hallmark of the high and absolute destiny of human

Beings, that they know what good and evil are, and know that the will itself is either good or evil – in a word, they can have responsibility [er Schuld haben kann], responsibility not only for evil but also for good; responsibility not simply for this or that or for everything that is around them or in them,”

Hegel PH, 97–98; TWA 12:50–51 (translation modified)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831), a German philosopher, declared the responsibility as a characteristic that defines humanity but also acknowledges that some little confusions were existing. Mark Alznauer, in his book Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility (2015), made efforts to clarify ...

While America is still a relatively new country in comparison to many, it has a long and deep history. The question to look at is what exactly that history is. The aspects of American history that one learns or is taught are as diverse as those who inhabit the country. Considering that America has been called a melting pot, meaning it brings together many differing cultures, religions and races, there is a myriad of lenses which one can view this country. Often the history taught is white-washed, meaning it is through the perspective of the white man. This creates ...

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Sojourner Truth stood up for many injustices during her lifetime. Her passion for African-American freedom from slavery, her activism in the women’s rights movement, and her ability to survive and endure the pain of her children being taken from her and sold into slavery, made Sojourner Truth an icon for many African-Americans as well as women during the 1800’s Sojourner Truth contributed to the understanding of feminist thought by standing up for equality in not only the African-American culture, but also through her passion for women’s rights. She stood for the equality of all women, ...

Judith Butler, a controversial writer and professor of philosophy, known to write about gender and sexuality, along with a recent interest in war, discusses the topic of “what counts as human” and “what makes for a liveable life,” in an essay titled, “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy.” Butler examines the paradigms set by society and politics of what is considered the “norm” and how one is only acknowledged in his or her humanity based on these standards. Those that are outside the expected norm, such as homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender and transsexual are not given the same ...

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Kate Stone is a known young southern woman who was involved in warfare during the civil war period. Women during the civil war witnessed a change in cultural and social structures. The civil war is viewed as an important turning point on the role of women in the society and the history of the United States. When women were left behind to take care of children while men went to war, a need emerged for women to quickly join the military. As a result, class lines and attitudes towards the war fell away. Women realized the need to take ...

The cause of women’s suffrage changed the course of American history, it is the reason that women are allowed to vote in the United States today. The right to vote was not easily won for women. In fact, many women who had campaigned for blacks to receive the vote in the United States were left along the wayside when Congress voted to allow black men to vote but still forbade women the right to suffrage. The suffrage movement was a decade’s long battle and a tenacious often unpopular political movement that permanently altered the social and political ...

When reflecting back on Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, I cannot help but to think that many of the ideas he presented have been in vain. It may seem as though things have changed for black people since the civil rights movement, which in some regard it most definitely has. However, there is a lot of room for improvement that is needed for a full realization of MLK’s dream. If he were here today it seems that he would be disappointed with the lack of opportunity that still is missing from the African American ...

There are a number of lessons that one must learn as one goes through life. But the lesson of attempting to survive through the racial discrimination in the south is one lesson that is most valuable to those who lived in that era. Many blacks can now relate to the racial challenge that Jefferson face in Louisiana in 1948. Like many other blacks during the 1940’s, Jefferson faces death for a murder. Of course the laws during the period did not require much proof to convict a black man as much of the stories of the past reveal ...

The plight of the black started just before slavery. With the slave trade, the black Americans were exposed torture, oppressions and all kinds of dehumanising things. After the end of slavery, there were hopes that the status of the African Americans will improve and their plights will reduce. However, the plight of the African Americans is getting even worse than ever. The racial discrimination and segregation have become worse than it initially was (Berg 19). Various figures have come upon to fight for the rights of the African Americans but all have ended up failing or being assassinated. The ...

In “The Fire Next Time” author James Baldwin provides a unique perspective inside the lives of African American and race in the 20th century. Unlike his predecessors he shows an angle of life as an African American male that is different from that of those who came before him. Baldwin’s story tells of the challenges and anger that he held against previous generations of black men who had not done enough to fulfil the freedom of the black people. Baldwin’s experience is one of a young black man looking for an answer in a sea of confusing ...

In the article “Black Males Plagued by Negative Stereotypes” Joyce Evans discusses the common image that people have when they think of black men. Unfortunately, this image is not positive. People usually have 5 Ds for black men “ dumb, deprived, dangerous, deviant and disturbed” (Joyce Web). People usually do not feel any sorrow towards them. They are often seen as the ones who left their family or their family left them. Black males have been neglected and looked down with prejudice by criminal, educational, educational and economical system. The author tells in the article that it is important to ...

In his narrative, Douglass recalls hearing his master state that he was seventeen in the year 1835. Consequently, that would make 1818 his approximate year of birth and Tuckahoe, Talbot County, in the State of Maryland his birthplace (Douglass 1). Subsequently, while informing readers that his mother’s name was Betsey Hailey, the man goes on to state his suspicions of having a white father. Apparently, while he never managed to discover whether rumors of his white master being his father were true, it remained evident that he was half Caucasian (Douglass 2). Now, the issue of Douglass’ parentage ...

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“Neo” generally means the new ways of doing things. Neoliberalism will therefore refer to new strategies which are used to improve the economic, political or social status. This paper examines how different women from different races are used to bring about an image perceived by the implementers to be positive and in line with improving the social and economic status of the society. The paper portrays an image of poor women from developing countries, how they are used as a tool in achieving neoliberalism and how most of them become passive victims of the circumstances. The paper also focuses ...

During the civil rights movement of the 1970s, disparate groups of people came together to fight and protest against the discrimination of people based on color, gender and creed. Even though these movements protested white male patriarchy and the disenfranchisement of people of color, their goals were not in sync with one other group that suffered more under the hands of patriarchy and racial domination. This group encompassed black woman, who suffered patriarchy as well as racial discrimination. The larger women’s rights movement ignored race as an important construct in the fight for freedom and equality. The universalization ...

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The Trayvon Martin shooting of 2012, in which George Zimmerman shot a 17-year-old black youth whom he believed was acting in a threatening manner. The controversy surrounding the murder and its subsequent trial brought up intriguing and complicated discussions surrounding Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws, which stated Zimmerman had the right to defend himself with deadly force if he felt threatened. Stand Your Ground laws have encountered a great deal of discussion in recent years due to this case and many others, in which the issue of being able to defend yourself with lethal force is taken into ...

When asked to view the documentary Slavery by Another Name, I was expecting to see something about prisoners being used in forced labor by some other country. I was clearly not expecting it to be about the treatment of African Americans in the United States after the Emancipation Proclamation. Based on my understanding of American history, I believed that after the Civil War, African Americans had some struggles, but they were free. I understood that there was still discrimination, especially in the American South, but the former slaves at least had the opportunity to make a living on their ...

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In spite of the fact that the Declaration of Independence affirmed that “All men are created equal”, due to the institution of slavery, the above-indicated statement was not grounded in law in the United States until after the Civil War (and, credibly, not completely fulfilled for many years thereafter). The highly-acclaimed case known as Brown v. Board of Education was indeed the name which was given to five separate cases that were heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 regarding school desegregation. Despite the fact that all these cases were different, there were raised varied potent and ...

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When Invisible Man, the seminal novel by Ralph Ellison was published in 1953, it quickly established a reputation as one of the most important literary depictions of the struggles of African-Americans in the history of fiction. The central character, the titular ‘invisible man,’ struggles with a metaphorical invisibility that was endemic to the 20th-century attitudes of white hegemony toward African-Americans, and encapsulated the black experience as one of marginalization and oppression. These elements contribute greatly to manifesting a vision of black American life that expressly prevents blacks from achieving the same level of respectability and acceptance as whites, regardless ...

The book titled The Color of Water by James McBride is an autobiographical affair which describes the life and happenings of the author’s mother, Ruth. The book is also a tribute to Ruth’s life and all that she goes through in the course of life. Ruth is presented as a strong woman with great ambition and strength. The book is not only representative of her journey and struggles; it is also her development as a person, a Christian, and a woman during the course of her life. She is the central figure in the novel and her ...

Angela Davis is a cultural figure and a prominent professor who has successfully engaged in human rights advocacy. She is a controversial writer, but highly acknowledged for her work in fighting racial discrimination and sexism. In particular, her advocacy towards the plights of the African Americans and the LGBT community are of high historical relevance. Davis’ background and experience in her childhood where she was subjected to extreme degrees of racism motivated. She has been an influential member of prominent black rights organizations and was once enrolled in the Communist Party. Academically, she is a professor and was once ...

Touching upon the problem of improvement in race relations in the United States, we should say that it’s a rather controversial topic. Denying African Americans citizenship was deemed essential to the formation of the original union. Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. An extraordinary percentage of black men in the United States are legally barred from voting today, just as they have been throughout most of American history. They are also subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service, just as their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents once were. ...

People will always go to great lengths to avoid seeing the truth. People view the world in a prejudiced manner that allows them to see what they want to see rather than what they should see. Invisibility is a major theme in Ellison’s book “Invisible Man.” In the book, the narrator illustrates his invisibility in a bid to find his own identity as a black person in an era where racial segregation was rife in America. The narrator decided that the world lacks people of credibility and is only filled with blind men who cannot judge him for ...

Overcrowding or overpopulation in prisons is defined as a situation when prison(s) hosts more prisoners contrary to the certified normal accommodation (CNA) as stipulated in the establishment’s requirements (Garcia & Marco, 2012, p. 37). This can be validated when there is the scarcity of rooms for inmates to sleep. Besides, the inability of facilities to offer adequate meals or food, poor health care services for inmates, insufficient staff who can care for inmates and ensure their safety as well as the lack of designated accommodation facilities necessary for detaining separately various types of prisoners, more so those that ...