My Maternal Grandparents And Clara Goree

Most of my close ties to South Carolina are within Charleston County. Those living in Charleston County are my father, two grandmothers, and aunt. Until the age of 8, while under the guardianship of my maternal grandmother, Evelyn Flowers, I attended Memminger Elementary School in downtown Charleston. After which, I relocated to Tallahassee, Florida to live with my mother and ever since then I have been regularly visiting Charleston at least 3 times per year. Currently, my maternal grandmother and aunt, Monique Flowers, both live at 1705 Drawbridge Ct. Charleston, SC 29414. My grandmother has lived in Charleston for 65 years, and my aunt for 39 years. My father, Nathaniel Magwood stays within the same residence as my paternal grandmother, Rosalie

In Annette Lareau’s study and subsequent book Unequal Childhoods, she examined the lives of twelve children of different social classes. In particular, she focused on parenting styles within their households and their effects on the children’s future and found a direct correlation. Two of the children from her study were Alexander Williams and Tyrec Taylor, both African-American nine-year-old boys.

She lost her parents at a young age, so her grandparents struggled to take care of her and her brothers. Soon after her sixtieth birthday, my mom married my father, and they both welcomed me two years later. I was born in September 1999; unfortunately, five months after my birth, my father died in the hands of a stranger from a gunshot to the head. Although both my grandmother and mother were devastated by his passing, they both decided to once again fight for our future and raise me.

My grandparents were both born and raised in Cidra, Puerto Rico and so were their three children. They wanted to start a new beginning. Though the exact date is forgotten my grandparents moved to Cleveland, Ohio sometime in 1989. My grandparents were very poor when they lived in Puerto Rico since there were not many job opportunities and barely any resources, my grandparents could barely make ends meet.They wanted to give their children to have more opportunities and resources that they didn't have when they were younger, so they decided to leave their home in Cidra. They choose to move to Cleveland because they already had some family down here such as brothers, sisters, and even cousins.When my grandparents got to Cleveland they already knew they made the right decision for their family, Cleveland gave them a more stable life then what they had in Puerto Rico. There were better-educated schools in Cleveland for their children unlike in Puerto Rico, the food in Cleveland was way more affordable, medicine as well, and it was easier to find jobs that paid well.

The Blackford family was the first family that I interviewed. The family consists of three members. Brenda Blackford, the mother, is 53 years old and is a pre-school teacher at Methodist Temple Children’s Center of Evansville, Indiana. Brenda dropped out of college to be with her now husband, and the father, Kurt Blackford. Kurt is 56 years old and is a lot manager at the auto dealership of D-Patrick Nissan, also in Evansville, IN. They have an 18 year old daughter, Caitlin Blackford, who attends Indiana University Bloomington as a freshman. Both parents, and daughter, are Caucasian.

Gregory Mears Sr., my grandfather, was born on October 20, 1945 in Baltimore Maryland. His mother Myrtle Elizabeth Dalton Bailey and father Henry Saile Bailey were also born in Baltimore Maryland. Growing up Gregory had seven brothers and sisters Eddie, Myrtle, Matthew, Del, Mildred, Melvin, and Marie all of which were born in Baltimore Maryland. Although at the moment the occupation for Myrtle is unknown, Henry worked as steel worker for Armco Steel. Gregory left high school under the direction of his mother to get a job. He left the twelfth grade leaving only a few credits short of his diploma to become a steel worker for Bethlehem Steel. Although, my grandfather did not continue his education each of his siblings continued their education

Although Creon and Henry Hobson may have attained their good lives by only adhering to themselves, both demonstrate the destructive consequences of when one puts selfish intentions above all else. Creon’s downfall is contributed by his pride and unwillingness to listen to others. He realized his fault too late and ended up losing the ones closest to him. Henry Hobson was enveloped in his business and accumulating wealth, without acknowledging the hard work of his daughters or Willie Mossop. The result was having lost control of his life to Maggie.

Creon finds out about his wife from his guard Choragus. Creon said “O God! I am sick with fear. Are there no swords here? Has no one a blow for me.” He’s upset and sounds like he wanted to die. Because he has nothing left at all. If the son was alive his wife would be alive too. Creon could’ve stopped it all from happening. Creon just STOP. And think what would happen in the future next time.

As I stated before the extended family has played an important role in African-American families throughout history. Extended family is made up of the family that is outside of your immediate nuclear family, your uncles, aunts, grandparents and/or cousins. I don’t come from a nuclear family, instead I’m from a single-parent family, so my mom usually depended on some members of our extended family to help ‘get by’. Even now, I’m living with my grandparents, so my extended family has always played an important role, at least to this point, in my life. The extended family is sometimes used as an economic unit. African American families are especially known for this type of households. It allows the family to use resources and exchange goods and services, and other things that probably wouldn’t possible if they were on their own (Dickerson, 1995). This type of living arrangement goes back to West African cultures. For example, in the Ashanti tribe young women remained in their family compound because the mothers weren’t believed to be able to manage on their on. So they stayed and received help from the older women in the tribe and other young mothers to help care for the children (Dickerson, 1995). An extended family gives children someone other than their mother or father to relate to (Staples, 1994). It can be viewed as a special friendship that isn’t shared with either of the parents.

She married Leonce not because she loved him but because she could not refuse his admiration and persistence. This marriage thrusts Edna into a foreign culture. She questions her role as a mother because she is different from the typical Creole "mother-woman." Edna defies the central perception that women are mothers first

She was pressured to marry Leonce by her father and older sister. Along with marriage came the pressure to have children. She is forced into these roles but never actually succumbs to them. Edna not only has Madame Ratignolle's friendship and her marriage to wake her up to her dreams and emotions, her affairs wake up to her desires. The way the different male characters treat her reminds her that she will never happily fit into the role of a wife and mother, therefore awakening her.

My mother’s father, James Kenneth Hicks, was born in Maud, Texas, on the farm where his parents were living, on May 7, 1941. There was not a doctor there at the time so many years later he had to prove that he was born at the farm house that day. His father, Charles Ennis Hicks, but everyone called him Red, was 37 years old at the time of my grandfather’s birth, he worked the farm that they lived on, but had his side line job of a carpenter. His mother, Obera Hill Hicks, was 32 years old at the time of my grandfather’s birth, she always had the job of being the home maker for her family. They had a total of 12 children, so Obera would cook, clean, and even make clothes for her children to wear. Their oldest child was Charles Burnice Hick, born on December 25, 1929. Edsel Ray Hicks was their next child, he was born on October 21, 1931, and he passed on July 29, 2006. Anita Louise Hicks was the oldest daughter, she was born on May 4, 1933. Chymill Sure Hicks was the next daughter, she was born on February 14, 1935. The next daughter was Barbra Dale Hicks, she was born on October 31, 1936, and she passed away on November 11, 2001. Margaret

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and review my observation of a 7 year old African American male who is being raised by his grandmother (45 year old Bi-racial female who has 9 children of her own; 7 of the children are still in the house). During my observation of “Jackson”, I focused on the following domains of child development:

In 2015, racial “passing” still goes on in this day and age. Racial “passing” occurred when a person classified as a member of one racial group was also accepted as a member of another racial group (1). Generally, “passing” made a person’s life easier, but the sense of loss may not be understood. A black woman had a nephew who “passed,” and he may not have known it. Of mixed racial ancestry, he was African-American and Caucasian. Born when his teen parents were in high school, the couple wanted to get married. However, her father forbade such an interracial union during the late 1960s. To this day, the adult child has not met his father or the black side of his family. “Passing” may not have been the child’s choice to make if he was not told about his African ancestry. Thus,

In the generation where my grandparents came from, marriages were purely arranged by the elderly. Mothers or aunts usually selected a marriage partner for their sons. My grandparents got married when both of them were very