Reflection Paper On African American Family

As the family structure and needs within the family are changing, the grandparent role is becoming more considered as the parent. As societies problems are growing such as substance abuse, violence, incarceration, homicide, mental illness and at the time this article was published the presence of Aids, the children in these families are starting to be cared for by their grandparents due to these issues being present in their parents’ lives. In just the African American culture according to the article “Empowering African American Custodial Grandparents”, “13.5% of African American children are living with their grandparents or other relatives.” This article discusses the imploring of the Family Systems Theory in the area of empowering the grandparents

African American Studies is a very complex subject. To confuse African American studies with black history is a common occurrence. African American studies is much deeper and more profound than just Black history alone. There are many unanswered and unasked questions among the Black American culture which causes confusion and misunderstanding in modern day society. In unit one there were many themes, concepts, and significant issues in the discipline of Africana studies. Both W.E.B Du Bois and Vivian V. Gordan touched on many concerns.

In today's world, there is such a big emphasis on education and its importance. And there should be an emphasis. Unfortunately, not everyone has the same attitude about receiving a good education. This article attempts to discuss the attitudes of African American's towards education when a stable family structure is absent.

African Americans have been making history for years knowing people will think they are not capable of exceeding anything, that african Americans are incapable to change the world but it was possible and the proof is right in front of you with the products they have created that benefit everyone today. Math is one of the reason that help us understand why the world is like this today and how everything function, also it brought us mathematician which is an expert in math, so anyone can be a mathematician and it doesn’t matter what gender, race, ethnicity, and etc. An african-american mathematician known as Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. is known for america’s most important contemporary mathematician which is a big title for this individual was

Question 1: Utilizing specific examples from both books, explain how the actions of African Americans damaged the institution of slavery and ultimately led to its demise.

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‘Race’ should be be used as an indicator of increased likelihood of criminal misconduct. This is my personal opinion because I support scientific based evidence and human ‘races’ is an unscientific claims. There is no white race and no black race (Andreasen, R. O., 2000). There has been an argument that races do exist for a long time and that is what led Hitler to be able to murder millions because he believed that Jews were an inferior race.

Family is a basic unit in every society. However, the makeup of a family is more complex to define. There are so many types of families that it is impossible to have one distinct definition in trying to explain how a true family is defined. For example, there are married couples with or without children, single-parent families, and even families headed by gay men or lesbians. These may not have been considered families not too long ago, but now must be recognized because we live in such a diverse society. What I want to focus on is the African-American family, in terms of what they had to go through before, during, and after slavery. As well as, where they are now and where it’s going in the future.

The beautiful rich county, Prince’s Georges, is where I grew up in a blended family in the city of Hyattsville, Maryland, raised there by my mother, step-father and grandmother. The ethnic composition of my family is African-American also known as “black”. On a bright sunny day in the city of Langley Park, Maryland, my parents met at a shopping center. The two of them emigrated from Africa to the United States; my biological father was born in Ogun State, Nigeria and my mother was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In addition, I was given my first name after my late grandfather and middle name after my late great-grandmother. Even though I’m half Nigerian, however, I was mostly raised on the maternal side of the family. My mother’s side of the

Black Americans groups are extremely diverse in a number of ways. Black Americans groups include people areas and this diversity affects their behavior in different racial backgrounds (American Indian, Black, and White) and includes people of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Spanish, and Central or South American origin. Each of these different cultural groups share a common language and some cores values that result in their being classified together, yet another group also carries its own unique culture, traditions and perspective. People from these different groups also have different immigration histories that further contribute to the diversity within the African group.

Although most African Americans in the United States are Protestant, 78% compared with only 51% of the United States as a whole. I will note that Protestantism in the U.S. and in the black community is not homogenous. It is divided among three main steam traditions, evangelical Protestant churches, mainline Protestant churches and historically black Protestant churches.

There are many races of people out here in the world that does not know a thing about their history but will know a thing or two about their background. African Americans in particular do not know anything about their background, and most of them do not care to know. Now in these modern days it is important to know where one came from, and to know their background. Knowing ones history will be a benefit to that person, and his or her family because history is a way to success.

Thesis/Central Idea: To understand that there are many parents raising their children alone with no help at all. Many single parents have different circumstances that cause them to raise their children by themselves. Being a single parent is not easy there are good days and bad days and most single parents must make it through no matter what. Many single parents do not realize that their children are looking at them for the rest of their lives.

As an African-American, being group into a category has always been a dilemma. Stereotyping the black community is something that United States society has grown accustom to without the perception of bias. For example, they are a variety of African that resides in the United States comparable African-Caribbean, and countless other ethnicity that are from the African descendant. Subsequently, furthermost of society is under the assumption that blacks are just what they are “Blacks”. Meanwhile, stereotyping been around for decades therefore the perceptions of blacks are the same isn’t a new statement. Contrary, to the mere fact this assumption is completely wrong. Meanwhile, the media will illustrate the African ethnicities/race all

Slavery is a period of time where people were bought, sold, and treated as property for many years. Slaves were given no rights once so ever from the time they were captured, purchased, or born. Slavery existed in many countries such as contemporary Africa, Mali, Haiti, Niger, Sudan, and Mauritania. Although slavery was equally devastating in many different countries one form of slavery that stands out the most for American history is slavery in the New World. Slaves were shipped from various locations in Africa and also different islands of the West Indies. Contrary to belief, there was a method in Africa specifically Goree Island, where wealthy Africans would sell out other Africans from their country into slavery. These “merchants”