Colorism is an issue amongst African Americans that is slowly disunifying the culture. The idea that is constantly reiterated in the African American community is that if you are light skinned you have a better job with more income‚ more successful‚ have more relationships‚ and are deemed less of a threat‚ essentially living the “best of both worlds”. If are darker skinned you are jobless or at a job that is not moving you into the future‚ less successful‚ passed by a potential mate‚ and is labeled
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Chapter 4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle For Independence‚ 1763- 1783 The Rising Expectation of the African Americans and the struggle for Independence was a great thing for blacks they started rise up over slavery‚ they made a big impact in the wars‚ and they got the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson. I. The Crisis of the British Empire 1) The Great struggle. 2) The two empires Great Britain and France. 3) The independence movement and the
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Chap. 5 Text Ch5.1 – “I am not a Virginian‚ but an American‚” declared Patrick Henry in 1775. Discuss what united the colonists and what divided them by mid-1770s. What united the colonists in the 1770’s I think began with the fact that they were all getting started here in the “New World”. They had a chance to make something of themselves and start a new life‚ breaking away from the restraints of British government. Some of the colonists united based on the fact that they wanted their liberities
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history of slavery and the role Native Americans played in it. Snyder’s discussion is centralized around the economic and culture ties slavery participated to in Native American life before and after European introduction into North America. A vial part in understanding the role of slavery to the natives is being able to distinguish why there was a need for slavery to be implemented and to understand how the slaves would be integrated into the societies of the natives.1 From this discussion Snyder
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him to go to an American school. Here is my first question is: “How did you feel back then?” His mother homeschooled him Obama’s house kitchen which is a disadvantage compared to others that went to a normal public or private school. Also his mother was teaching him. Also his dad left him when he was two years old. So my question is: “Did you feel like you had a disadvantage‚ become the president compared to others?" In Mr. President’s speech you mentioned a lot of jobs people want to become in
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between Native and European Americans‚ the European Americans(Europeans) repeatedly dishonored the treaties which they agreed to uphold. Usually‚ they established the same treaties they betrayed‚ such as the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851); which eventually led to the tragic massacre of the Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.[1] “The Treaty set forth traditional territorial claims of the tribes as between themselves.” [2] Greedy and eager to completely disregard the Treaty of Fort Laramie and head west due
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Describe and analyze the cultural‚ economic‚ and political impact of Islam on West Africa between 1000 C.E and 1750 C.E. Between 1000 and 1750 C.E. Islam entered West Africa and increased its trade‚ many Islamic states rose and fell‚ but many aspects of African religion and gender roles remained unchanged. Between 1000 and 1700‚ Islam caused West Africa to experience an increase in trade and economic activity‚ the rise and fall of several Islamic states and empires‚ and provided new practices to
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the expansion of americans into the west was a major step in the 1800’s. the united states had a great deal of land that no one had ventured to settle. however‚ that all changed as the prospect of making it big in the west entered people’s minds. although white settlers wanted desperately to settle the west rapidly‚ they encountered varous problems. the west was land like thye had never seen. the climate could change from one extreme to the other in a matter of hours‚ it was very dry‚ there
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According to("African-American culture"‚ 2016) peoples views and drawings African American culture came about as a result of slave trade. Africans enslaved to American countries even before the process of colonization had to change their culture in order for them to fit in. Slave trade was deeply rooted to West and Central Africa. Slavery did restrict slaves from practicing their traditions in foreign land since they did not have the freedom to chose what was best for them. Language happened to be
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Music‚ which is what the topic of this unit is‚ is a fundamental consistent of human life that can be detected in every known culture‚ present and past. However‚ it varies widely between times and places‚ and it might have been invented in Africa. Our Discover New York class focused on music in New York City. The NYC music scene was described by Richie Unterberger as “immense‚ richly diverse‚ flashy‚ polyethnic‚ and engaged in a never-ending race for artistic and cosmopolitan supremacy”. There are
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