...Obstacles African Americans Suffer The definition of an ‘obstacle’ is ‘something that obstructs or hinders progress.’ African Americans from the start of time, have always experienced obstacles. The reason for the suffering behind these obstacles is probably imbedded somewhere in the deep history from which African Americans come from. However, in today’s society, one would think that a specific race would not have to endure any obstacles because of their race, but African Americans do. African Americans today, still face discrimination and fewer opportunities in the federal workplace. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity is a federal law enforcement agency which enforces laws against workplace discrimination of any sort. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity investigates discrimination issues based on a person’s race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability. Between 2010 and 2012, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity worked with other bias agencies to discover the discrimination issues which African Americans suffered in the federal workplace. One of the biggest obstacles which African Africans suffer in the federal workplace is dealing with the unconscious biases and perceptions about African Americans. These biases and perceptions play a significant role in employment decisions in the federal sector. These unconscious biases are generally based off of learned stereotypes that operate automatically when we interact...
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...A: Manuscript Hello students and thank you for inviting me here today. I am very honor to talk about the African-American for the British students. Someone knows how I am and someone does not. So I will start to introduce myself. My name is Roland Fryer and I am professor of economics at Harvard University. I know that you have studied about African-Americans. But I know I will talk about the African-American you did not know and some of this I talk about will probably surprise you. In my talk I will talk about racial inequality and answer some questions on this topic. Questions such as: Why are African-Americans so much less prosperous than whites? Why do so many black children flounder in school? I will start to talk about how it is in America today and the conditions of the African-Americans of today. I explain why their situation is, as it is and talk about family background, education, the labor market, suggests how to narrow the gap between black and white Americans in future and finally I will discuss the importance of role models. My story I had never thought that I would become a Harvard professor, especially if you asked me when I was 15 years old. If you asked me when I was 15 years old what I would be doing when I was 30. I will answer that I would probably be dead. At that time I was hanging out with a gang and selling drugs on the side. My parents split up when I was very young. At one time I had to borrow money to bail my father out of jail. My great-aunt...
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...review examines the disproportionate number of young African-American males who have been placed in special education. The articles highlight factors such as cultural misunderstandings and teachers’ perceptions and attitudes towards African- American men. This literature review not only observes the misunderstandings, but it also looks at strategies and techniques that can be used to lessen the gap. Keywords: African American boys, African American males, special education, overrepresentation, disproportionate, educationally disadvantaged, cultural Literature Review Introduction: According to a recent study conducted by the Council of the Great City Schools, Black and Hispanic males constitute almost 80 percent of youth in special education programs. In addition, Black males make up 20 percent of all students in the United States classified as mentally retarded, although they are only nine percent of the student population (Barbarin 2011). Over the years, overrepresentation of African American males placed in special education programs continues to be a growing problem and it has not gone unnoticed that some of these identified minorities have been misplaced and inaccurately diagnosed. This paper reviews peer reviewed journal articles on this phenomenon. The authors attempt to explain, through qualitative and quantitative research, where the discrepancies originate – the process for student referrals and the roles of teachers, administration, and parents. They also look...
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...African-American College Students: Personal History, Struggles, and Graduation Rheon Gibson Northern Illinois University Abstract In this report, I discuss the importance of African-American college students in higher education realms and why the topic appeals to my interests. I will also identify trends in research questions, methodology, and research findings; regarding three identified themes; Personal History, Struggles, and Graduation. In addition, I will provide the reader with an evaluation/critique of the existing literature, including; 1) contributions of literature to the field, 2) overall strengths, 3) overall weaknesses, 4) missing elements, and 5) what are the next steps for research. African-American College Students: Personal History, Struggles, and Graduation Introduction Importance to the Field Educational attainment amongst African-Americans is a crucial concept that not only affects African-American communities but it also affects society as a whole. Education provides a solid foundation for individuals to experience personal growth, increase one’s socioeconomic status, and obtain professional careers and licensures. Obtaining higher education does not begin upon admission to an accredited college or university; instead, it begins when one is first introduced to the educational system. This introduction can be in Kindergarten, Pre-K, the first year of home school, or wherever the first fundamental steps of acquiring a higher knowledge of comprehension...
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...Persecution, death, despair and glorified agony describe the ways in which African Americans felt during the 19nth century leading to social change and the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was sparked by the pain that African Americans felt being slaves and in turn they moved to the more urbanized and industrial north. It was considered a Renaissance because the liberal arts like, music, literature and art were uplifted independently for African American culture. This in turn created a social change for African Americans to have more freedom and liberty. Social change associated with freedom in the Harlem Renaissance can be attributed to three different reasons, literature, art and music. Literature played a gargantuan role in the...
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...Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), destroyed something valuable with the closing of black schools in the Jim Crow south. Many discuss integration in a celebratory manner, arguing that African Americans were making progress in the fight for equality. Although a myriad of blacks were involved in the equalization and integration of the nation, Fairclough argues that a great number chose to support school integration. Those who did not support integration legislation believed that segregated schools...
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...Issues Surrounding the Graduation Rate for African American Males The American educational system is generally regarded as one of the better education systems in the world. Currently, there is much national discussion about the state of the American educational system and how it can be improved. While these discussions include students from head start to doctoral programs, there is a smaller group of students whose circumstances are exceptionally dire and go largely un-discussed. African American males have one of the highest dropout rates in the United States. This is so because African American males face significantly more obstacles in receiving a high school diploma. The main factors that contribute to African American high school males dropping out are: poverty, bad school, and family breakdown (Crouse, 2010). Conversely, there are factors that contribute to African American males graduating from high school such as culturally sensitive curricula and positive Black male role models. Understanding the scope of the contributing factors surrounding the high school graduation rate of African American males paints a picture of what it means to be Black and male in the American education system. Poverty is a contributing factor to the low high school graduation rate of African American males. "Positioning Young Black" states that 36 percent of Black children live in poverty and: In many areas, Black Americans are segregated in minority communities where children are more likely...
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...handles the occurrence of higher living standards in developed countries like Japan and the United States of America (79 Years). Furthermore, a healthy nation has a chance to reap the benefits of active and rejuvenated workforce that facilitate her progress. The government has a role to ensure that her citizens meet basic health requirements through the provision of essential services to the public. This paper will discuss health situation among the African Americans for comparison and contrast to the national averages. Current Health Status of African Americans Gee (2012) noted that the African Americans have a substandard health status compared to the national average. For instance, this racial group had the highest death rates in 2009 according to the reports of the Center for Disease Control of the United States of America. The deaths occur following severe heart disease and stroke among this race. Moreover, the adults above 65 years in this race had the highest prevalence of hypertension thus surpassing the average records for the CDC. These health risks and diseases make health status of the African Americans poorer than their counterparts from other races in the USA. How African Americans Define Health Promotion The race defines health promotion as an involvement of programs that are community-based with the view to foster participation in health practices. For instance, there is a need for...
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...“More African American Males Should Be Present in The Classroom” Today, many schools are lacking the presence of African American males serving as educators to impact the lives of many students. This controversy lies between is everyone in the education profession receiving an equal opportunity or is African American males being targeted to pursue another field. Traditionally, schools are made up of majority females and Caucasian males. Some schools have African American males serving doing other positions such as the cafeteria, janitors, or bus drivers. According to “Where are the Black Males Teachers in Public Schools”, less than two percent of the nation’s teacher workforce is made up of African American men (Lamb, 2015). African American...
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...Many historians and scholars in the field of African American studies know about the ambitious rivalry between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBouis. This rivalry between two great leaders of the black community in the late 19th and 20th century gave birth to many debates and dissension about which leader actually offered a better way for black people to advance in American society back then. I personally viewed Booker T. Washington’s beliefs about racial equality as somewhat…“colonized”. I believe his ideas were too ground in the white agenda that was going on in that era. I believe W.E.B DuBois ideas were better for the improvement of African American people in American society. Of these two great men, the first to come along was Booker T. Washington. He was a reformer, an educator and one of the most influential black leaders of his time. He preached the philosophy of racial solidarity, self-help and accommodation. He pushed for black people to accept the vicious discrimination that they were going through for the time being and instead concentrate on advancing themselves through material prosperity and hard work....
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...Pre-Civil War Era is commonly discussed in US History classes, though the subject of African Americans hardships and struggles goes unnoticed as they try to adapted to life as a freed person directly after the Civil War continuously facing many obstacles in their way that includes lack of knowledge and education detected by Booker T. Washington, an educator who is consider the most important speaker of his time giving his famous speech “Cast Down Your Buckets Where You Are” delivered at 1895 Atlanta Compromise, was determined to provide education for blacks not just in Tuskegee, Alabama but over all over the country. Washington dedicated his time lifting black people up from slavery by persevering in every single endeavor ultimately creating the Tuskegee Institute to promote education and industry. Washington the author of “Up from Slavery” documents his trials and tribulations of to build a school for African Americans to better themselves and become equal with the rest of society. Washington’s autobiography begins with his childhood where was born a slave in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, whose mother was also black and father rumored to be white man who he view as a “victim of the institution of slavery” (3, Washington) with little information known about him or the rest of his family history. Washington did not attend school at an early age, since it was illegal for slaves to receive an education but he had the desire to attend school after seeing master’s daughter school...
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...Going through chapter three, I find most of the information is belonging to how African American life and how they get their education in the US. We are living in a world that is constantly engaging in efforts to integrate diverse cultures in education and communities. In education, they have a variety of different methods in how students learn and how the basic styles help individual learners such as African American. I would like to discuss this question that says African American possess certain learning which enable them to learn more efficiently. I will discuss this question from different points of view. It could be the true that African Americans tend to learn efficiently but still everyone has potential to learn whatever he/ her wants. Learning process it depends on the person him/ her self. I will outline a plan, discuss that everyone has a potential to learn. Moreover, the economic statues can play an...
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...Presidents in these years were the first to help the status of African Americans since Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery. Truman deesegregated the armed forces, Eisenhower created 2 civil rights bills, Kennedy put a civil rights bill on his agenda, and this was completed by Johnson. The courts were also heavily involved, making de jure change in many court cases, such as: Brown v. Board of Education, Brown II, Sweatt v. Painter etc. Also, bills that were proposed by the Presidents were passed through Congress, which showed that the traditional views of Congress were changing and were looking to help improve the status of African Americans. However, the Federal government was not solely responsible for improving the status of African Americans. Civil Rights groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Non-Violence Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) were starting to take action to improve the status of African Americans, through courts and direct action. As well as this, media played a significant role in the improvement of status of African Americans, as they showed the protests and how bad the white backlash was, which gained more white sympathisers and forced the government to put Civil Rights on the forefront of its agenda. The Presidents of the Federal Government played a huge role in time, as it was these men who were starting to make Civil...
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...Throughout the history of the United States, the Supreme Court has made major decisions relating to the civil liberties and rights of African Americans and each major decision has had a major impact on the American Society. Three Supreme Court decisions in response to cases filed by African Americans have impacted America more than any other decisions and also highlight the gradual development of equal rights in the United States. In 1857 when tensions over slavery ran high, the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision divided the nation into two camps – slavery and antislavery and this ultimately contributed to the Civil War in 1861. Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 was a major setback in race decisions allowing African Americans to be discriminated...
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...Examination of Two African American Artists Name Title Unit Code Introduction Artist refers to broad spectrum wide ranging word that covers activities related to creative art, demonstrating art, and practicing art. Artistic works by the African American artists have played a great role in revolutionizing the scene of the American culture displayed to the outside world. Becoming an artist is an intensive process requiring talent and social recognition through provision of social support. In the early ages, artists in America were selected basing on their race. However, the beginning of the 19th century saw the establishment of Negro movement that advocated for social recognition of the black artists in America. This provided the artists with a platform for expressing their talents through music, writings, and visual artworks on issues related to social, political, and economic conditions facing the blacks in America. Therefore, this research paper will examine the life history of two famous African American artists in history. The analysis will consider their early lives, education backgrounds and their contributions that led to their social recognition. The research will end with the comparison of the two personalities and come up with a conclusion. The two personalities examined in the research paper are Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Romare Bearden. Romare Bearden’s Early Life Romare Bearden is one of the African American artist and writer...
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