I would like to know more about the history of African Americans, their struggles and their success.
1. I didnt know that there were so many black philosophers and itellectuals in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries such as David Walker(1785-1830), Sojourner Truth(1797-1883),Frederick A Douglas(1817_1895)
2. I didn't know that the civil rights movement and black students had to rebel and protest for the establishment of African American studies in Colleges.
3. Maria Stewart was one of the first black feminist to champion the utility of balck woman's relationships with one anotherin providing a communtity for Balck women's activism and self determination.
1. Do you think that black students have the same privillages has white students in today's society?
2. Are cultural pluralism,multiethnicity, and cultural diversity synonymous terms relative to American education?
3. Do you think that Black women today live up to the ideas and values of the Black feminist mentioned?
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
What is the White Mainstream?
To identify certain cultural norms and values as white or middlle class means that the domoinant group in society has all the power and privillages than other minority groups. Often times they are the leaders and the minority groups are the followers.The dominant group set certain standards that other groups should follow and maintain. However a society will operate more effectivly if dominant group 'whites'are able to understand the minority groups cultural,their identity and their views.
I think that values stop being white or middleclass when one should not have to live by the values, norms or beliefs of another group, but when every group can live by their own values and norms and also be seen as thier own individuals.
I think that values stop being white or middleclass when one should not have to live by the values, norms or beliefs of another group, but when every group can live by their own values and norms and also be seen as thier own individuals.
Is Barack Obama an African American?
It seems to be an ongoing issue of self naming and racial identification. But it all comes down to how society views an individual of two different race. Society or people determine who is Black or White based on their accomplishment, success and economic status.There has been so many debates on whether President Obama is black or white. If he was'nt the president or if he wasnt educated the he is, he would just be seen as a regular Black man, no one would even recognized him to say whether he is Black or White.
According to a study done By Northwestern University on "should such racial characterization on people like Obama really matter?" The study shows that it matters and also "the study highlights the legacy of hypodescent in racial categorization in the U.S. According to hypodescent, a child of mixed-race ancestry is assigned to the race of what society considers the socially subordinate parent. Historically, mixed-race children in slave societies were most commonly assigned to the race of their non-Caucasian parent. In the most extreme manifestation of hypodescent in the United States, the one-drop rule holds that if a person has one drop of black blood, he or she is considered to be black."[Northwestern University (2008, October 12). Does It Matter If Black Plus White Equals Black Or Multiracial?. ScienceDaily. Science daily.com]
I think that an individual should be able to identify with the race they are comfortable with and not what society says.
According to a study done By Northwestern University on "should such racial characterization on people like Obama really matter?" The study shows that it matters and also "the study highlights the legacy of hypodescent in racial categorization in the U.S. According to hypodescent, a child of mixed-race ancestry is assigned to the race of what society considers the socially subordinate parent. Historically, mixed-race children in slave societies were most commonly assigned to the race of their non-Caucasian parent. In the most extreme manifestation of hypodescent in the United States, the one-drop rule holds that if a person has one drop of black blood, he or she is considered to be black."[Northwestern University (2008, October 12). Does It Matter If Black Plus White Equals Black Or Multiracial?. ScienceDaily. Science daily.com]
I think that an individual should be able to identify with the race they are comfortable with and not what society says.
Distinguished African Americans
I was looking at a 2009 calender, I think that it is important to know about these individuals.
Thomas Morris Chester (1834-1892)
He was the first African American correspondent for a major daily newspaper during the civil war. Working for the Philadelphia Press, he covered the activities of African American troops around Petersburg and Richmond,Virginia. Pror to the war,Chester was editor of the publication Star of Liberia. In later years, he practied law in England. His successes helped open the field of mass communications; including radio and TV broadcasting, computer networking,print media and public speaking, to future generations of African Americans, who now participate in these careers in record numbers.
James Armistead
American Spy: In 1781 Armistead, a slave, was a valuable intelligence agent during the Revolution,assisting Lafayette by gathering information concerning British forces at Portsmouth, Virginia. For his work, Aristead was emancipated by an acy of the Virginia Legislature in1786.
Bernice Gaines Hughes
First African American woman to obatian the rank of lieutenant colonel in the United States.
Thomas Morris Chester (1834-1892)
He was the first African American correspondent for a major daily newspaper during the civil war. Working for the Philadelphia Press, he covered the activities of African American troops around Petersburg and Richmond,Virginia. Pror to the war,Chester was editor of the publication Star of Liberia. In later years, he practied law in England. His successes helped open the field of mass communications; including radio and TV broadcasting, computer networking,print media and public speaking, to future generations of African Americans, who now participate in these careers in record numbers.
James Armistead
American Spy: In 1781 Armistead, a slave, was a valuable intelligence agent during the Revolution,assisting Lafayette by gathering information concerning British forces at Portsmouth, Virginia. For his work, Aristead was emancipated by an acy of the Virginia Legislature in1786.
Bernice Gaines Hughes
First African American woman to obatian the rank of lieutenant colonel in the United States.
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