Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Beginning Considerations - Starting the Blog, Starting the course

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?

2 comments:

  1. I like these questions very much. They show me how thoughtful and observant you are. How would you answer them yourself, now that you have read some more of the materials in the course, and discussed some of them with your classmates? What have you seen on this campus or in Springfield to support your perspectives?

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  2. I do not believe that blacks and white students have the same privileges at every school, it seems to be pretty equal at uis
    i do not believe that some black women live up to the values mention in black feminist thought

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