What Are The Social And Economic Factors That Affect West African Americans

Everyone has dreams and aspirations they want to achieve in life. Mines are to eventually earn my PhD in Health Management, write a book on the social economic conditions that plague Black Communities and to hopefully run for US Senate in the near not too distance future. All amiable and lofty aspirations, but one thing; that is all they will ever become unless I take ownership of my dreams and turn them into reality. Dreams can inspire you, but more importantly, goals can change your life. Taking your dreams and turning them into goals is no easy task, it often comes with a price; time, effort, sweat, determination, and sometimes money. Goals are focused and precise objectives based on real life values that requires action. To achieve any goals, you must make sacrifices, stay committed, overcome adversity and stick to a plan. But how do I turn these far-fetched dreams into SMART Goals?

The article Being Poor, Black and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces written by William Julius Wilson is about the struggles and inequalities African Americans living in poverty encounter. Wilson discussed political, economic and cultural forces that have an impact on American impoverished communities. The author suggested the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina brought the media and world attention to poverty in the United States. Prior to Katrina, the author believes Americans did not focus or sympathize with poor communities. This unsympathetic attitude stems from the belief that people are poor because they did not work hard enough, or are not doing anything to get out of that situation. After Katrina, Americans started to notice and care about the impoverished communities because the hurricane was a natural disaster and out of their control. Overall, the author explains how politics, economics and cultures forced many families into poverty, and diminishes the idea that people live in poverty because of their own shortcomings.

Though social problems affect a wide variety of people from all races, classes, and cultures; minorities, specifically African Americans, encounter social problems on a multi-dimensional basis. Poverty, employment rates, discrimination, and other social problems strike African Americans in such a way that it is nearly impossible to separate them; each individual has different background, socially and physically, that would determine in which order his or her social problems need to be solved. Impoverished blacks in the inner city may have difficulty finding or keeping jobs, while others may have jobs, but face troubles with work discrimination that prevent them from moving upward .Underemployment, workplace inequalities, and unbalanced

Americans of African descent still have limited economic freedom, even after the end of the civil war on Monday. The hugest or in other words the most serious problem after the Civil War it was hard work. After the Civil War, Americans of African descent in this release, but we do not know where exactly to go, especially in the south. They traveled far, but some remained and hard work because they did not have anywhere to go and no one to see. Also, they were not able to get all of their land, and thus began the cycle of poverty known as sharecropping. War in South Africa to prevent Americans from exercising civil and political rights - is another example of a border post is passed Black Codes which were discriminatory

Abstract: African American people have a high percentage of obesity compared to other ethnic groups. Social determinants of obesity in African American people include low socioeconomic status, limited access to affordable and healthy food, dietary behavior and food culture, lack of nutrition knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, higher exposure of marketing of less nutritious food and limited access to safe places to physically active. This research was done to see how these social determinants affect the obesity rate in African American people. Different researches were reviewed. The effects of above mentioned social determinants were observed and some recommendations are given in order to minimize the health disparities in low income African

The combat and labor of world war I mentality and physically drained black soldiers.Nevertheless, being able to serve their country and travel to france was quite the experience. Black soldiers were able to interact with North and West African soldiers and that helped expand their knowledge of their culture and their sense of belonging. Majority of French civilians treated black soldiers with respect and showed no racial tendencies toward them. The War gave black american soldiers a new outlook on the world and expanded their thoughts of the world and their place in it. Black soldiers were able to come away from the war with something positive.

African American have high poverty levels because they don't have a job and many don't finish school because they have to take care of their family or they didn't have the money to finish an education and get a degree. Many African American have a harder time finding a job because sometimes racial profiling can exist when looking for a job. The mortality rate is higher because African American have more heart attacks, cancer, and diabetes. Hispanic and whites have lower morbidity and mortality rate than the average African American. African American life span is below the normal of what a white person normally lives, a factor that it can contribute to high mortality rates is when African Americans were slaves, and it just kept on rising with

In this respect, youth have not been able to take good advantage of the bountiful resources that Cook, County Chicago has to offer. It appears that youth in this community, are failures in academia because they lack effective coping mechanisms to pull themselves together during difficult times. There are always safety nets for these youth to be cushioned by, although they are easily lured into a lifestyle of crime.

In his discussion on poverty among African Americans, William Wilson has identified several historical factors that have contributed to the increase in poverty levels in the recent years. Such factors included, first, shift in the American economy from industrial to informational economy, thus limited the labor poll to only highly specialized individuals; second, the historical flow of migrants, and what it bring with it from competition over limited amount of resources; third, change in the urban minority age structure, where individuals who are underage are the majority in both Hispanic and African American poor communities, Fourth, population change in the inner city; and finally, the class transformation of inner city, where middle class African Americans, have left the inner city and moved towards other middle class neighborhoods, thus, leaving behind a concentration of poor and underclass African Americans in inner cities all across the United States.

People who migrate from the English-speaking Caribbean grew up in a less racially oppressed environment. As a result, those who are dark skinned have a greater sense of self-worth and confidence. When migrated to the United States they approach the question of job search and was more than willing to work certain professions with a different set of attitudes compared to that of their native blacks. Black Caribbean’s looked down on African Americans because they felt that they were not enthusiastic enough to take the many opportunities that were laid before them in the United States. Most of the jobs African Americans refused were either low paid, had poor working conditions or jobs with low status.

black americans did not enjoy the same lifestyle that many whites did. Furthermore, June Star and the grandmother probably did not contact with blacks at all and as a result were intrigued when they came across a black child. however, because of the social constructs of their environment, they didn't necessarily care for the fact that the black child was

A: As stated in the article Dr.king states that In terms of content, the most telling section of the speech was not its "Dream"but that black Americans had been given a “bad look” at the time of their skin color being targeted which they were now coming to Washington to demand to be cashed.

For thousands of years, the nation was divided into different and peculiar groups. The nation was mainly divided by race, and where your family has come from. There are the Whites on the eastern edge of the nation. They are also called the “Natives”. The African-Americans are next to them. Then, the Asians are in the middle. After Asians, the Europeans. Lastly on the western border, the Mexicans. Those are the 5 races the nation is divided into. Those were normal. But the mixed races have a different story. They are slaves to the upper ranks. They are looked down upon in this society, being treated like livestock.They are called the Variables. Why? You don’t know what they are. With the 5 factions, the races only know their language, culture, and their countries way of life. They think everyone else has the same culture. Example, Americans only eat food native to their history. They have never tasted Mexican or Asian foods. The Europeans still want say in everything. But the variables have a completely different way of life you see. Variables celebrate their owner’s culture. They have no freedom what so ever.

African Americans have been through so much since being uprooted from their home in Africa. Most people do not understand what happened to African Americans and they understand what they had to go through to be where they are today. It went from being kings in the comfort of their home to being thrown on a boat packed like sardines to be forced to work in the fields. The trip was a massacre itself because many did not make it due to the treatment from others. African Americans have always been treated like outsiders and it took many people to sway the perception of others to be where they are today. Through all the ups and downs African Americans persevered and made it out the struggle. African Americans has always been treated badly all groups of people and they always looked down on African Americans. Throughout the history involving African American, it showed the constant inferiority treatment. African Americans were slaves years ago, people still look at blacks as less important than other people. Slavery has a huge impact on our society today because people are still bias and unfair towards African Americans, most African Americans are still living in poverty and don’t have proper education beyond high school which is why they don’t have the equal opportunity for jobs. African Americans still continue to sit in the shadow behind white people.

Food security is historically defined as the overall regional, national as well as global food supply and shortfalls in supply as associated to requirements (Foster, 1992). The same author contended that, even though, the increased observation of differences in the sufficiency of food intake by certain groups despite overall adequacy of supply, the term has been applied recently at a local, household, or individual level and it has been widened beyond notions of food supply to include elements of access (Sen, 1981), vulnerability (Watts and Bohle, 1993), and sustainability (Chambers, 1989). Different organizations, scholars and institutions define food security differently. However, basic concept remains the same.