Essays on Black Studies

The popular perception that rap music is an expression of the African Americans’ struggle for social equality seems to have some basis. This is especially true when considering that rap music originates, or at least become popularized, by Black artists who have expressed their racial sentiments through songs that have become expressions of their racial opinions, such as those concerning bigotry. Such is the case in the popularity of Tupac Shakur and the rap group, Public Enemy, specifically on how the Black Americans are able to relate to their songs’ themes on racial bias suffered by Blacks under a ...

The language of rights as identified by Mills (2002) involves the manner in which language is approached today. Policy documents, as well as various academic literature, put language rights at the heart of their analysis. Language right-based policies are displacing traditional language planning while sociolinguistics studies have become studies of language rights. Language rights are additionally discussed as human rights, inspired by the remarkable expansion of international human rights advocacy over the last couple of years. Human rights have been looked to as values of ‘godless’ or post-political age (Klug, 2000). In recent decades, radicals and reforms have turned ...

Manning, Marable, Dispatches From the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience, New York, Columbia University Press, 2000-written by manning Marable.

Manning -one of the leading scholars of African American history is a professor of political science and history at Columbia University in New York City where he also holds the position of director in the institute for research in Africa American studies. He is considered as one of the America’s most widely convert and influential scholars. Manning has brought together insightful minds who display a willingness to be outspoken in their criticisms, yet who are without a ...

Introduction

Indiana University Bloomington is public/government owned university in America that offers an array of faculties includes technical professions, as well as liberal arts. This university that is popularly known as IU Bloomington is located in Bloomington, Indiana. The university was founded in the year 1820 as a state seminary. Today, several years after this institution was established, the university offers a large number of various programs to its relatively large student population. Some of the faculties that can be found in this university include the school of business, public health, Jacob’s school of music, school of law and education and ...

What is the black studies program like at "University of Kansas"?

Introduction The slave ships that arrived in the American soil decades back have defined and shaped the course of history. The struggle of freedom from slavery has been fought through the 18th century through the 19th century; even the 20th and 21st century has had incidences of slavery. Today, there exists a new form of slavery that is referred to as modern-day slavery. Understanding the past has always been crucial in planning for the future and anticipating for any possible occurrences. The past defines the present and creates an avenue of insightful information for discerning the future. United States ...

Many have said that Tupac is alive and well and never died. Is that true? Well, let us go back to Tupac Amaru Shakur on September 7, 1996, was sitting calmly in the passenger side of a black BMW which was driven by the president of Death Row Records Marion named Suge Knight. Suge Knight and Tupac had just ended viewing the Mike Tyson beat down and win of Bruce Seldon which was done at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before the shooting, Tupac was casually standing up through the sunroof and then the car all of a sudden ...

Essay

On Friday March 22nd, I accessed the document “Civil Rights Activism in 1960s Virgina” through the Excelsior College Library digital database. The document was published by The Journal of Black Studies Vol. 38, No.2, and was dated Nov. 2007. The publication is put out by Sage Publications, Inc. The sixteen-page document contained a dense amount of in-text citations and three pages of cited works. The majority of the sources contained dated texts, journal, organizational press releases, articles and testimony dated near the time the activism, which it explored, was taking place. Many of the sources, were text written by ...

Abstract:

The socially disadvantaged farmer is in a perpetual struggle to maintain farmland in the United States of America. Land possession among this social group has declined at a high rate well into the 21st century. Government programs and banking industry components have played a crucial role for the disadvantaged farmers who are losing their farmland due to illicit business practices, ignorance, and greed. The small American farmer has endured discrimination, poverty, pest infestation, industrialization, and indelible hardships that have persisted for many generations. Their survival depends on the virtues in which our country fought and stands for.

Introduction

Socially Disadvantaged ...