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Africana Studies through film is one of many different ways to go about understanding the complexity of Africana Studies but will come to find out later is still not necessarily being taken seriously or seen by blacks at all. Ava DuVernay, an African American Woman Filmmaker, makes short films featuring black people and different life situations. Her film “The Door” depicts the power of sisterhood in times of struggle and sadness. Though these are situations women of all different races experience, she

States that focus on supporting the high school to college matriculation and retention of African American males. Furthermore, these initiatives are designed to support Black males as they navigate through their perspectives institutions (Palmer & Gasman, 2008). Support can come in many ways. For the purpose of this section, I will highlight some of the programs that focus on the success of African American males; Penn GSE Grad Prep Academy, Sam Houston State University, The Ohio State, and UCLA. The

Diversity is now, more than ever before, at the forefront of the American conversation. Black people have been slowly but surely making gains in today’s society and in ways that were not possible before. African Americans are more educated and more affluent, and more important as consumers than ever before. By 2017, they are expected to have a spending power of 1.3 trillion dollars (Resilient, 2013). Young, influential, and brand loyal, this group should be the target of many companies. Interestingly

Despite the limitations imposed by slavery, Africans and their descendants made substantial contributions to American culture in agriculture, cuisine, food culture and language. As for Cultural integration, such actions occurred during the transatlantic slave trade between West Africans and Central Africans and the European Americans was a forced interaction that cannot be reversed. The transatlantic slave trade in 1889, established a permanent link between Africa and North America as Africans

unknowingly. African Americans have influences upon the United States in numerous ways. Socially, politically and emotionally the black experience embodies influence on our lives today. When I reflect on the issues that African Americans faced centuries ago, and the issues that we are facing today it seems to be a reflection. I am a African American woman staring in a cracked mirror watching the issues of the past reflect back in the world I live in today. African American political experience from

didn’t feel the same way about African Americans. Julian actually wanted to embrace black people and wanted to know more about them. When he sat on the bus, he would ponder thoughts of one day having a long conversation with an intellectual black person, or maybe even bringing home an African American girlfriend one day. Suddenly black people start to hop on the same bus as Julian and his mother. His mother starts to be overly nice to the African Americans, the type of nice where you can tell that

The big Black smiling mammy, the sexual deviant, and the angry sapphire are historically depicted images of Black women. Within the male-dominated comic art world, Deborah Whaley’s Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphics Novels, and Anime offer a countervision on the Black body. Women, especially Black women may welcome this book as a confirmation about recognizing, representing, and reframing their story. For this audience, Whaley will explore the historical, racial, and sexual representation

Some see gender as being “Black and White” and it is, literally. With numerous gender ideologies, not only is there division between the Black (African Americans) and the White (fair skinned Europeans), but between men and women as well. Generally, white men and white men only hold most of the power in the world that there is to possess and it has consciously been set up for them to do so. The technical name for this global concept is hegemonic masculinity. This highly sexist and blatantly racist

marriage. Over time the idea of what the model family was viewed as and the reality of what a model class consist of now began to clash. American families are becoming numb or more excepting of the detrimental changes that I have listed above, of the model African American family. Finances and infidelity are at the top of the list of reasons why the African American family is becoming non-existent. The idea that the 1950s were the best time to raise children was based on the finances

Nature is used as a metaphor for many things in life and in the pages of a novel. One can use spring as a rejuvenation of the soul, winter as a barren wasteland, summer the splendor of someone’s life, and autumn the bringer of death. Zora Neal Hurston uses these and similar aspects of nature as a pillar in her novel Their Eyes were Watching God to describe the progression of the life of Janie, the main character. One of the many natural images Hurston provided the reader with was that of the pear