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Author | : Kofi Annor Boye-Doe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
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Our story is one of resilience, time and time again. Kofi offers an in-depth analysis on the similarities and differences between Africans and African Americans; his perspective is shaped by living first in Ghana only to leave everything he knew to come to America.
Author | : Joseph Mbele |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 141162341X |
Download Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book discusses differences between African and American culture, to help prevent cultural miscommunications which might poison or ruin relationships between Africans and Americans. I am lucky to have lived in both Africa and America, and I feel priviledged and obliged to share my views and experiences with others.
Author | : Godfrey Mwakikagile |
Publisher | : New Africa Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author looks at relations between Africans and African Americans and how they see each other. There are a lot of misconceptions which have an impact on how Africans and African Americans interact, with the media playing a major role in perpetuating myths about both.
Author | : Signithia Fordham |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1996-03-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022622998X |
Download Blacked Out Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This innovative portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students, exploring the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigating the price students pay for attaining it. Signithia Fordham's richly detailed ethnography reveals a deeply rooted cultural system that favors egalitarianism and group cohesion over the individualistic, competitive demands of academic success and sheds new light on the sources of academic performance. She also details the ways in which the achievements of sucessful African-Americans are "blacked out" of the public imagination and negative images are reflected onto black adolescents. A self-proclaimed "native" anthropologist, she chronicles the struggle of African-American students to construct an identity suitable to themselves, their peers, and their families within an arena of colliding ideals. This long-overdue contribution is of crucial importance to educators, policymakers, and ethnographers.
Author | : Richard A. Davis |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1997-06-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download The Myth of Black Ethnicity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the late 1800s W.E.B. Dubois asked what it really means to be black in America. He raised the spectre of divided loyalties and the blurring of individuality that he called Double Consciousness. This volume offers an insight into this dilemma of identity by asking the seemingly rhetorical question, what does O.J. Simpson have in common with the participants in the Million Man March, the jury that set him free, the people who inexplicably cheered his acquittal, the prosecuting attorney, the black Muslim Louis Farrakhan, or with his own children? Each case involves cross-cutting currents of age, sex, religion, race, ethnicity, class and ideology. But what they share among themselves, and with the rest of the nation, is the firm conviction that they are black.
Author | : Arthur J. Stovall Ph. D. |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1412046351 |
Download The Last Remnants of Slavery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The mission or purpose, Dr. Stovall, endeavors to transmit in this book, "The Last Remnants of Slavery: An African American Dilemma", is support for an intervention that will start a Cultural Revolution for change, to end the last chapter to a chaotic dysfunctional process in the lives of African Americans. There are many historical correct and factual representations about slavery, but until now, there have been no examination of slavery's impact on African Americans. This book is a must read that deals with the Last Remnants from the past that is still influencing the economic, social and political values in African American communities. The processes of the remnants discouraged Africans and subsequent African Americans from any organized effort at providing for their communities' economic, social and political representation that would have allowed self-sufficiency after emancipation and proclamation in 1865. The Africans' unbeknown to themselves became guardians of the poverty paradigm and past it to their future generations' not just poverty as a lifestyle, but the socialization process that has ensured its perpetuation. The effects of the Last Remnants' tactics have grown roots in the lifestyle of the African American families and communities. The outcome of the Last Remnants is evident by the crime reports, which suggest that 90% of the incarcerated population is made-up of African American's youth between the age of 18 to 38 and 70% are substance abuse related offenses.
Author | : PH D April C E Langley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
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ISBN | : 9780814256602 |
Download The Black Aesthetic Unbound Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Their memories, ideas, beliefs, and practices would forever reshape its history and cultures. April C. E. Langley's The Black Aesthetic Unbound exposes the dilemma of the literal, metaphorical, and rhetorical question, "What is African in African American literature?" Confronting the undeniable imprints of West African culture and consciousness in early black writing such as Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative or Phillis Wheatley's poetry, the author conceives eighteenth-century Black Experience to be literally and figuratively encompassing and inextricably linked to Africa, Europe, and America. Consequently, this book has three aims: to locate the eighteenth century as the genesis of the cultural and historical movements which mark twentieth-century black aestheticism--known as the Black Aesthetic; to analyze problematic associations of African identity as manifested in an essentialized Afro-America; and to study the relationship between specific West African modes of thought and expression and the emergence of a black aesthetic in eighteenth-century North America. By exploring how Senegalese, Igbo, and other West African traditions provide striking new lenses for reading poetry and prose by six significant writers, Langley offers a fresh perspective on this important era in our literary history. Ultimately, the author confronts the difficult dilemma of how to use diasporic, syncretic, and vernacular theories of Black culture to think through the massive cultural transformations wrought by the Middle Passage.
Author | : Amuzie Chimezie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Black Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Hope Landrine |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1996-03-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download African American Acculturation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Should African Americans be construed as a race or as an ethnic group? If African Americans are defined as an ethnic group, what role does culture play in their lives and how can we measure their culture? This groundbreaking volume argues that we should reject the concept of race and define African Americans as a cultural group. It presents the first scale ever devised for measuring acculturation among African Americans, along with powerful studies that empirically explore the role of culture and acculturation in African American behavior, health, and psychology. Among the authors' findings are how acculturation predicts symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, and physical problems, such as hypertension.
Author | : Robert Charles Smith |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791409459 |
Download Race, Class, and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Race is arguably the most profound and enduring cleavage in American society and politics. This book examines the sources and dynamics of the race cleavage in American society through a detailed analysis of intergroup and intragroup differences at the level of mass opinion. The ethclass theory, which examines the intersection of ethnicity and class, is used to analyze interracial differences in mass attitudes. This analysis yields three clusters of opinion that distinguish African Americans from whites -- religiosity, interpersonal alienation, and political liberalism. The authors then examine the intragroup sources of these opinion differences among blacks in terms of class, gender, age, region, and religion. While the authors demonstrate an embryonic trend of more black middle class opinion agreement with whites, the book confirms the ethclass character of the black experience whereby race and race consciousness are still more significant than class in shaping black attitudes. Given the growing class bifurcation in black America and the continuing debate about its significance in shaping black attitudes and behavior, this book offers a refreshing new analysis of the homogeneity as well as heterogeneity of black mass public opinion.