Ever since African Americans have arrived in America, the evolution of African American masculinity has come a long way. ... It was frowned upon all over America not only in the black community, but it was just unheard of in African American culture. ... Making it a stressful and rather difficult for a homosexual African American. ... It's hard to make an African American man change his mind when he believes in something. ... African American masculinity has come a long way since they have been brought to America. ...

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One way African Americans were denied equality was the degrading segregation at lunch counters and in restaurants. ... [Document 3] Another way African Americans have been denied equality is segregation in public schools. African Americans and whites were forced to attend separate schools regardless of their location. ... For example, African Americans had to sit in the back of the bus; meanwhile whites could sit in the front. African Americans could not even sit in the same row as a white person. ...

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America definitely seems like a land of opportunity to many of us, but not long ago, African Americans were looked down upon and treated as less-than white citizens. What began as Negro History week in 1926, has evolved into an American tradition known as Black History Month. Author Julianne Malyeaux shares her thoughts on the national recognition of African Americans. ... It is just want a person does because it is part of American history. ... Making people remember how much black history is an important part of American history helps to fight these stereotypes. ...

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One of the predominant effects could be seen on African Americans' miserable destiny. ... When accused of keeping African Americans as slaves, some white planters even justified slavery by saying that it was better and happier for blacks to be slaves because they were inherently inferior and need to be supervised. ... Though theoretically, things were better in the North because of industrialization and accordingly lack of slavery, the way that society treated African Americans were still far from equal. In most northern places, while the white working class were gradually enfranchised, A...

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CHANGES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE 1920"S In the 1920's, African Americans were going through many changes and were doing many new things that they hadn't even thought about doing before that. ... Not only did African Americans start jazz, but some of the best jazz musicians were African American. ... It was a celebration of the unique culture of African Americans, and gave the world a new view of African American expression. The Harlem Renaissance changed African American identity and history, but it also changed American culture in general. Never before had so many Ame...

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There were many similarities and differences with the experiences of changes that occurred with African Americans, Women, and Asian Americans. This can be proven through the differences of the social changes experienced by African Americans, Women, and Asian Americans. African Americans went through many social changes throughout WW II, such as their involvement in the military, and their first large movement for civil rights. ... Though it was not the best for America, the Navy and Army both kept segregation strong despite the African American call for equality (Doc 6). ... Contrasting to A...

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African-American women had been under the racism and sexism of their environment for centuries. ... Even during slavery, African-Americans did indeed still manage to stand tall in the public eye. ... CHAPTER 3 Chapter 3 discusses the prejudice that African-American women faced. ... CHAPTER 5 In discussing prominent African-American icons, the topic once again turned to Ida B. ... The second stanza represents the attitudes to African-Americans over the course of the past few decades, when African-Americans have experienced a relatively significant rise in status. ...

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In the movie Glory, it shows us the struggles of Africans-American soldiers who fought for the Union. During that time of the Civil War, the African-Americans who fought experienced racial discrimination and abuse. ... African-American soldiers experienced racism and abuse multiple times. One of the people that we see who mistreated the African-Americans was Colonel James Montgomery. ... These unequal treatment shows us how the African-Americans struggled for equality. ...

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When describing the early years of America they would focus on African Americans brutal journey from their home in Africa to America, and how they were forced into slavery. ... As a result the histories of African Americans and other minorities have merged with that of white America. ... Students are assigned projects dealing with African American history, and attend speeches from African Americans. ... Rap has always been associated with African American culture. ... People of all races, not just African Americans, listen to it. ...

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African American mother The article called "African American Mother" signifies that racial prejudice is a form of corruption of human rights. ... The practice of this prejudice leads to a cruel and egoistic mistreatment towards the African Americans. In the age of Jim Crow racial inequality was one of the struggles that African American people had to tolerate. ... The African Americans had to deal with such problems as buying a house, going to the park, or even going to church. ... Leading successful lives was impossible because the African Americans were deprived of full rights and just...

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A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... In recent news, an article came out involving three African Americans and the network ABC. ... " In the hit television show "Grey's Anatomy", the main black character has light skin and blue eyes, which gives the audience the perception that being light skin African American is more appealing than a dark skinned African American. ... The agency did a casting call for African American men are &quo...

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Racial disputes largely involved Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans, while religious disagreements involved mostly Catholic discrimination and the ideas of strict Protestantism. ... This new concept influenced Americans to start believing they were the only race fit to live and govern the nation of the United States, and this created somewhat of racial discrimination between settlers, African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexicans. ... Martin Delany, African American abolitionist, stated in his speech supporting black - nationalism that colored people are simply not identical...

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As of right now America is populated with minorities from different racial and ethnic backgrounds such as Asians, Africans, Latinos, and Native Americans, all of which are known as minorities. ... Africans were brought to America against their own will; they were forced here by Euro- Americans in order to be their slaves. ... Although those of Asian or Latino descent were not forced to enter into the United States, in some ways their experiences were parallel with those of African and Native American descent. ... Africans were enslaved and forced to work for no money at all. ... It wasn'...

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People look at society and think there is no way segregation existed between African Americans and Caucasians. Periodically, young adolescents hear older African Americans telling them about what their ancestors experienced and what some of them witnessed within the African American culture. ... In the piece, Angelou suggests that Louis' win symbolizes African Americans' victory as a race while his loss would potentially and unfairly "validate" many Caucasians' claims that African Americans were inferior. ... She showed us how little African Americans were of value in...

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Racism occurs daily in America. ... (Also, 77 percent of regular marijuana users are white, while one in six is African-American.) ... Knowing that, why are the minorities (African Americans) being pulled over more that white people due to racial profiling. ... On the news we see distraught African Americans deliberately depicted acting in mayhem. It is a known fact than more that half of African Americans viewed on the news are depicted in a negative case. ...

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In a recent study they found 75% of white Americans believe that there is no issue with the criminal justice system and that racism is not a problem in the world we live in today. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... The United States Sentencing Commissions released a report saying that African Americans sentences are 20% longer than white Americans even though they both were convicted with the same crime. ... Since it is harder for Hispanics and African Amer...

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The NFL, an organization with a large amount of African American players, only employs three African American head coaches. ... Still, there is a push for more African-American head coaches to be added. Another place lacking a sufficient number of African American head coaches the NCAA. ... Alabama interviewed an African-American by the name of Sylvester Croom. ... As stated, over fifty percent of division I college athletes are African American. ...

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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... With more African Americans being targeted and pulled over, the chance of arresting a black motorist is greater. ... Racial profiling is an unethical act that causes African Americans to experience fear, humiliation, and anger towards law enforcement officers. ... Racial profiling causes African Americans to have a lack of confidence and trust in the pol...

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This boycott lasted more than a year and inspired African Americans everywhere. ... Aretha is both a women and African American which explains why she is asking for respect from men and white people. ... The biggest cultural change in the 1960s was the end of African American discrimination. ... This made life different for everyone because white people had to get used to African Americans the same rights.  ... Martin Luther King was the one who started it all for the African Americans. ...

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Americans have been envied since they have evolved. ... That's why Americans comes in different colors. ... Americans has a reputation of being lazy and rude. ... In his essay "What is an American" he states that all Americans are of European descent and that people who comes to America lives a better life. Those statements are incorrect because people from all over the world has come to America such as Africans, Asians, Mexicans, etc. ...

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Throughout history, many different views have been taken by African American leaders on how to solve the racial injustice that has plagued the African American community ever since they became known as independent citizens in this country. This is shown best by the great differences in methods used by the African American leaders Booker T. ... In his speech he preached a philosophy to the African American race of self-help. ... He stressed the need for further education in the African American community because he believed that African American leadership should come from college-trained backg...

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Clarence sees himself as having a higher power than others and being better than them, especially African Americans. ... Having a child that was half African American would be a disgrace for him. ... Lastly, in "Battle Royal" the main character is an African American boy. ... " After barely getting through his speech he got a scholarship to the College for African Americans. ... He felt he had a higher status than all African Americans and ordered them around. ...

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When it comes to cuisine, the media shows that African Americans only eat soul food. ... The Media describes African American to lack good social skills. African Americans are shown to be disrespectful. ... Because some people believe that African Americans are obnoxious and don't know how to be any other way. Religion is shown to be a big deal to African Americans. ...

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Invisible Man captures and addresses the many struggles facing African Americans through IM at a time when blacks were perceived as greedy, emotionless and less intelligent than whites. ... The white economics house represents the modesty of the African Americans, which is what IM's grandfather told him to be careful about. ... The black and rust from the pipe, as well as the black paint base, tends to get overlooked by society due to preconceived notions of African Americans, deeming them to be useless and less valuable than others. ... IM is now has more aware and understanding as to w...

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For example, before, you could rarely find a family of African-American people living in the same neighborhood with white people, or using the same public service, as well as going to the same restaurant. ... With the employment, the number of colored people working for American's company has increased to rival the number of American workers. ... Diversity has brought everybody together, African with American, European with Asian, Indian with Australian, etc. ... America should keep what it have been doing all this time, or even make it better, like encourage people from poor countries ...

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