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    The object I will be observing and performing a cultural analysis on is a billboard ad, shown in Soho, Manhattan. It says "the most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb”, with a picture of an African American child, as well as the website "thatsabortion.com”. Objects and words used in today’s society can have a positive or negative effect on the citizens that view it. At first glance, this billboard is certainly looked at as negative, however upon taking a closer look and analyzing

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    minorities were hit the hardest. Especially the African American society had to suffer the most under the effects of the great economic depression; they were the first to be discharged from their jobs and the last to be hired. African Americans were even pushed out of jobs, which were previously scorned out by whites. Even if they were allowed to keep their jobs, they still had to face daily racism. Compared to the white folks, the wages of African American workers were at least 30% below white’s wages

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    African American women have been greatly oppressed for centuries. In some ways, they have built up resilience to this oppression, and have also built resilience to other traumatic events, such as sexual assault. Issues of resilience and coping strengthen African American women’s abilities to heal and thrive as survivors of child sexual abuse (Singh, Garnett, & Williams, 2012). This resilience helps them in other situations that may cause similar stress and confusion in their lives. The idea of oppression

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    improvement in the African American culture. The beginning of the civil right movement, the contrary to Brown vs Board of Education and black genres of music replicated the griefs in the African American’s community. The sound of Rhythm and Blues and other form of music were their form of therapeutic tool. With the migration of many southern African Americans migrated to northern and western cities to avoid racism they suffered in the south, their music were embraced by white American which created

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    Reaped would talk about how African American males would not leave their town because all of the influences that are around their life. So the research articles in sociology and psychology talk a lot about the stereotypes of African American males and women are more prone to stay in their home town and not do much with their life. So these articles hopefully will give insight to anybody that reads these articles and realize how people actually stereotypes African Americans. The way Men We Reaped relates

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    The African-American Civil Rights Movement holds within social movements in the United States whose intention were to stop racial segregation and discrimination against black and provide equality. Afircan Americans aimed to achieve equality to those of whites, including the same opportunities in employment, housing, education, voting, access to public facilities, and to be free of racial discrimination. During the period of the Civil Rights Movement, several events which took place had an affect

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    This paper will discuss the harsh reality surround racism in America for both poor and rich African American’s. The paper will discuss how one’s negative stereotypical viewpoints of an African American teenager can lead to death. While there are many ways to change and improve your financial status, there is no way to change your status as an African American. Those were sentiments shared by Lebron James during the 2017 playoff season. Lebron James is a world class NBA basketball player for

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    express thoughts, emotions, and social issues for those who know how to organize their words in a rhythmic mode. The majority of rappers are African American such as Christopher George Latore Wallace (The Notorious B.I.G.), Nasir Jones (Nas), and Tupac Amaru Shakur (2pac). I would refer that the most rappers are African American to the suffering that African Americans society is facing; precisely, the common issues they have in many states in this country; for instance, discrimination, poverty, street

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    In “Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices,” Stuart Hall explains representation throughout African American history. In addition, the paper explains racism through a number of questions and activities. In the first section of his paper, he explains the early beginning of racism deriving from the European exploration into other continents, from discovering other cultures especially in Africa. In addition, adventures by Europeans were often recorded through advertising

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    also retrieved from well-known American newspapers, such as Washington Post (These ten charts show the black-white economic gap hasn’t budged in 50 years, 2013), which make the data and information are always pay attention and focused on problems that happened in America based on American perspective. Another reason that makes the sources used in this research report reliable is because some of them have been gathered from

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