Being Black Sociology

After watching the film Dear White People, I was not entirely sure if I enjoyed the production or not. At first, I was not a fan of the movie, but about midway through I started appreciating it more. I think producer Justin Simien appropriately used satire in the film by almost ridiculing every cast member, not just focusing on someone who was heterosexual, black, white, or what socioeconomic class they came from. I am sure at different colleges and universities race relations exist. I personally have not experienced any type of negative race conflict here, at The College of New Jersey.

Herman Hudson was born in Biringham, Alabama in 1923 and grew up to get his bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees from the university of michigan. He had a long career at teaching at other colleges and universitys until the landed at Indiana University. During his time there he established all of the African American studies institues at the college and helped inprove race relations among the community.

One argument made by Structural Functionalists is that society should be a meritocracy. People should be rewarded based on their abilities. (Class notes, SOCI 201, Winter 2010)

Hollywood does a great job with making movies and making the viewer believe that, that is what actually happened in real life. Even though some parts of a movie is correct about what actually happened, they like to exaggerate or add certain things that didn’t actually happen in real life. It makes the movie better or more interesting to the person who is watching the movie. In the movie “Black Mass” they do an exceptional job of sticking to true events. The movie shows how the most notorious gangster in America got away with so much and why the police never did anything for an extended period of time.

In America, we are known as the melting pot, the country of diversity, where citizens can be who they want to be. We can be who we want to be, and look at ourselves however we want to; but how are others looking at us? In many cases, an individual does not even have a chance to make an impression on somebody, because they have already been judged simply by their physical aspects. The controversy of one's color has been around since the beginning of time. In the history of the United States, the racism against African American's has put them through much oppression, and many walls have been built up over the years between African Americans and other ethnic groups. As a result of the barrier between these ethnic groups, the movie Jungle

Labeling theory. The labels that people are given affect their own and others’ perceptions of them, leading to conformity or deviance (labels can be good or bad)Most people resist the negative labels others try to give us, however, if we hear that we a thug long enough, we may finally accept that label and start living as a thug. Black race is the most stereotyped out of many races. Due to being consistently stereotyped they really become who they are being stereotyped as. In the starting of this movie

This article emphasizes by showing how the working class communities struggle on protecting their own space. It highlights by what method the author thought about in combating gentrification within the community since political affiliations played a role in breakdown communities like El Barrio, East, West and Central Harlem. For example, the idea of affordable housing and the idea of private house ownership particularly has harmed its working class communities to be specific the East Harlem community. The notion of housing and empowerment always has been connected and people always aspire to own one. East Harlem has been a victim of it since the Federal Housing Act 1937 led to create overpopulated housing projects and replace people in those

White privilege is a form of structural racism where whites are routinely advantaged while producing adverse outcomes for people of color such as Blacks and Hispanics. White privilege is a historically based system which still exists in the United States (US). In my view, white privilege system marked the beginning of racial inequality in the US. White privilege exists in the United States and is one of the contributing factors to the injustices people with color are facing in the US.

Cross’ book Shades of black: diversity in African-American identity (1991) depicts a perceived metamorphous of black identity through five stages of development—his ideologies are now termed as the Nigrescence theory. In simple terms, this philosophy refers to the process of becoming Black. It also demonstrates daily struggles that the black community may have in developing a healthy personal identity. Over the years, many authors attempt to define what the word black means. Eventually, many came to begin using the politically acceptable term widely applied today to regard black people; that word is known as Negroes. As different historical events occurred, one being the black power revolution on the 1970’s the experience called for a fresh definition of the term negro. Blacks or Africans in America began to be more conscious of their identity and more aware of the differences separating them. This is the experience that Cross (1971) illustrates and is primarily referenced in his five-stage progress including: pre-encounter, encounter, immersion/emersion, internalization, and internalization-commitment. This book highlights some very vital topics relating to mental health, which has been carefully disregarded by other researchers. Nonetheless, it has strong affiliations to the black experience and can positively explain a more normal psychological behavior through logical and very thought provoking

Thesis: Even with the creation of Black Studies as an academic discipline, the culture and influence of white dependency still seem to block people of color’s mental potential, and inherently their ability to progress as a group.

As I sit here and think about what it is to be Black in America. I realize how there are so many factors that affect African American people daily. One of the most damaging forces tearing at young black people in America today is the popular culture's image of what an "authentic" black person is supposed to look like and how that person is supposed to act. People assume all black males where raised in a single parent home. People assume that if you are a black male, that you sale drugs or you are really great in some type of sport. If you are a black female, they assume you will have kids by different men, referred to as “baby daddy” or they may not even know who the fathers of their children are. This same society expects African

highly uneducated, irresponsible, and aggressive. Under these circumstances, the development of a black mans identity deteriorates, his self-worth, his image, and his history are gone. Consequently, leaving the only thing left to grasp is the portrayed image of the black male, a nigger. This is the struggle the

Over the last semester. I 've learned a lot about sociology and how it affects me. Here are 10 concept that have impacted in my life.

Throughout history the voice of the black man has been silences and his rights oppressed. There was a time where we as black people were only seen as a number but we have overturned this and continue to flourish in the community and workplace today. We have survived centuries of violence and racism and our resilience and refusal to back down or susseed has brought us to the place we are today. We have fought strongly together for the right to be treated equally and to be given the same opportunities as the white man. Today, thanks to the grace of god, we see the fruit of our labor and have the chance to receive an education and better ourselves as a black community. Now more than ever I feel the community needs educated black people to continue

The Brotherhood is synonymous to the communist party. There are evident indications to stress that the essential ideology of the Brotherhood is communism. First of all, Brother Jack claims that the “mission” of the Brotherhood is “working for a better world for all people” (Ellison 304), which is strikingly similar to communism’s political propaganda. secondly, the emphasis of “science”, “history” and the aversion of religion is another unsubtle feature of the Marxism-Leninism philosophy. Finally, compared to the other Black Nationalism organization, Ras, the Brotherhood repeatedly asserts that they always value the group’s benefit over the individual’s. In fact, as the leading orator of the group, the narrator is jus a tool to transmit the