The African-American Male Essay

Slavery began in the late 16th century to early 18th century. Africans were brought to American colonies by white masters to come and work on their plantations in the South. They were treated harshly with no payments for all their hard work. In addition, they lived under harsh living conditions, and this led to their resistance against these harsh conditions. The racism towards the African Americans who were slaves was at its extreme as they did not have any rights; no civil nor political rights.

In the article Black Males and Adult Education: A Call to Action written by Brendaly Drayton, Dionne Rosser-Mims, Joni Schwartz, and Talmadge C. Guy want to expose the challenges that black males face in education. They make it clear their purpose is to incite a great change in the way black males are treated in the education system, give black men a voice, and endorse an analytical evaluation of institutional procedures and practices. More importantly the article states that the authors’ point is not to encourage the stereotypes and behaviors attributed to black men that society has put upon them, rather their point is to show the world that their destructive view on black males is stopping them from reaching their full potential.

Perceptions is what we as individuals understand from the information we are given, what we think we see and know vs what another sees towards the same object or person. But something we must always keep in mind is the stigmas we have aren’t always true.

A Broader Problem that plagues Black males are not totally the responsibility of the public schools, but are a responsibility of society as a whole (Delpit, 1995). We can say, however, that the public schools do play a major role in addressing the problems of Black male students. The educational experiences and the support services afforded Black male students could play an

From past to present there’s not much of a difference. The idea is that all men are equal, but in reality there are boundaries and hardships that prevent other races from being included in equality, next to the white man. The absence of diversity in the United States, interferes with the ability for black men to transition into manhood. Thus, continues this interminable cycle of a black man fighting for his identity, power, respect, and trying to understand who he is as an individual. Black men are portrayed to be lazy,

In studying the success factors of high achieving Black males in high school, Allen (2015) found that parents were proactive in teaching their sons to have racial pride and resilience while understanding the dynamics and barriers of racism. One father stated, “For some reason, because of the color of our skin, we’re looked down upon as being nothing and if we don’t do something supernatural and achieve way beyond everybody else then you’re never going to get out of that box” (Allen, 2015, p. 221). Therefore, it became essential for the fathers to teach their children to “achieve way beyond everybody else” (Allen, 2015, p. 221) in order to achieve racial justice. The idea of racial justice as a motivator is significant in giving the Black male students agency to be Black academically talented men.

Nationally, 20.5 percent of African American girls of ages 2-11 were obese compared with 15.6% of White girls and 19.9% of African American boys 2-11 were when compared with White boys.

Segregated schools and unfair resource distribution are systemic in the education system. Their effect is reflected in standardized testing gaps and drop-out rates. It is crucial to introspect and look at issues within the black community. The anti-intellectual culture within the community needs to change. Being and acting educated is labeled as “acting white” and stigmatized. The black community needs to strive hard to instill the value of education in their communities. Black people can succeed in more ways than being an entertainer or a sports

The article that I will be examines is “Booty call sex, violence, and images of black masculinity” by Patricia Hill Collins. The author has examined the black experience and how the media misrepresents black men; these effects are still felt in the present. Collins was using different forms of media such as sport, film, and historic events. To help the readers to learn where hyper sexuality, violet, and criminal stereotypes of black male come from.

Upon the premise of further exploration, Mari Ann Roberts found a definition of what is meant to care for underachieving African American male students. Roberts surveyed eight African American teachers to attain their point of view of what it meant to care for their students which included informing them about how to survive in the racism of the United States of America that they will and are exposed to (Roberts 456). The discussion of political clarity was addressed by several teachers to help students understand “the importance of education and emphasized that they believed, for Black people, academic achievement would eventually equal equality” (Roberts 458).

For various reasons, media of all types collectively offer a distorted representation of the lives and reality of black men. In turn, media consumption negatively affects the public’s understandings and attitudes related to black men. And these distorted understandings and attitudes towards black men lead to negative real- world consequences for us. These negative understandings of black men are consistently used to justify the racial inequities we encounter in a number of institutions, seen in the form of inflated rates of school discipline, underachievement in higher education, and higher rates of poverty, homicide, unemployment, and over involvement in the criminal

From the moment Africans were enslaved by Europeans, it began the history of terror, fear, disenfranchisement, and injustice. W.E.B DuBois made a prediction that the 20th century would be the “century of the color line”. Patterson (1998) notes that DuBois’ predication came true. “This has been a century torn by the often murderous imposition of ethnic, including so called racial, boundaries, and by the struggles to overturn them.” (Patterson 1998). Strides have been made which resulted in changes for the black community but there are still major problems that exist. Major problems such as poverty or educational attainment still burden the community. It is interesting to think about historically black neighborhoods. Most predominantly black

Due to the misrepresentation of media and historical prejudices, black males in American society are being labeled as lazy, violent-oriented, and uneducated. If a black man’s lived in a society in which his surroundings already put on an image on him before he can present himself, he could do just try to fit in such an image because the interaction with others very significantly impacts the formation of one's personal identity. Such a stigma is the answer to why black males in America would more easily be the

Before we can effectively address the under-representation of African American males in urban middle and high school classrooms; we must first situate the problem in the right global-political context; otherwise further attempts to solve it will continue to be misguided. And secondly, we must recognize the negative psychological impact it has on African American students’ ability to learn, as a compound problem, in which disproportionality is supported by this under-representation. From the beginning, the basic function of education for African descended people is to prepare them for servitude to Whites, and consequently, it is this European constant which survives in the United States (Wilson, 1993). Changes in the physical manifestations

African American men’s experiences of racism are believed to contribute to low self-esteem (Utsey, Ponterotto, Reynolds, & Cancelli, 2000). Yet researchers have found evidence that suggests African Americans’ explicit self-esteem is equal to that of members of non stigmatized groups (Crocker & Major, 1989). In contrast to explicit self-esteem, implicit self-esteem is a spontaneous, automatic, and unconscious evaluation of one’s own worth (Baccus, Baldwin, & Packer, 2004). In addition, it is thought that social behavior operates in an unconscious manner (Baccus et al., 2004). As a result, the question of whether it is mainly implicit self-esteem that influences social behavior has been raised and researched (Bosson, Brown, Zeigler-Hill, & Swann, 2003). However, the role of implicit self-esteem as an influence of social behavior for African American men is lacking a significant amount of empirical research.