African american woman

Being a woman living in America is not only a task but a daily job. Women in the United States are not held to the same standards as men but are expected to work just as hard as a man to work in a higher role that has normally dominated by men. Women have to appear just a tough as a man if not tougher, show no emotion and also think like a man. Being an African American woman is even more of a daily challenge. Not only are you expected to be smart, but also as an African American woman you have

interpretation on the African and African-American woman and we play an important part of history. As an African-American woman, I look at the African culture as a blueprint of how I view myself. The first time I started painting, I wanted to focus on the Black Woman. How she looks, act, her emotions, her love, her strength and everything that she is and wants to become. She is strong, kind, a warrior, a queen, mother, compassionate, and vulnerable. She knows that her African Heritage is a markup

Between 1980 to 1990, 8% to 12% of African-Americans completed four or more years in their college education (Educational Attainment, by Race and Hispanic Origin: 1960 to 1998). For many African Americans in the 1980’s, it was very hard to Imagine graduating from college, let alone graduating from two Ivy league Universities. One very influential woman did just that, her name is Michelle Obama. Alma maters of Michelle Obama includes Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Upon graduating from

If one was to search for the definition of the term “African American Woman” they would find nothing. Although there are definitions of the words African-American and woman; one cannot define the two words together. This is just it, to actually define what it is to be an African American woman would be the equivalence of rescuing the United States from its trillion dollar debt. It’s impossible. An African American woman can be defined by her confidence, drive and knowledge. All those components define

Dorothy Dandridge may seem to be like a beautiful and strong African American woman on the outside, but on the inside she held in a lot of pain. Dorothy Dandridge is an actress, singer, and entertainer, who no longer walk this green Earth, but when she did, she made history. Dorothy was the first African American actress to achieve a leading-role status. Dorothy also had a deeply troubled life and racism didn’t make her life any easier especially when it came to achieving her dreams, but she got

The life of African American Woman in America is not an easy one, for years the Black Woman has had to face adversity. We were brought into this world not with one minority but with two minorities put against us, the first is the fact that we are a woman and the second is that are African American. Because of that for years we have been subject to not only sexism but racism. The Black Feminist Theory revolves around the exact injustices of African-American women, “A black woman is oppressed by patriarchy

Defying the Myths of the African American Woman - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Song of Solomon, and Push        Throughout slavery, myths were created about African American women. These myths of yesterday have tainted the image of the African American woman today. These myths include two major ideas, the first being that all African American women are perceived as more promiscuous than the average white woman. The second myth is that black women are virtually useless, containing

messages from our brothers and sisters who have delivered the African American culture from a time of devastation to a time of empowerment, one might rightly predict that I have stumbled across a plethora of quotes. Quotes exemplifying great leaders; people who have left

Why do we value hip hop artists and cool shoes while forgetting and leaving out some of the most important people in the American history like Charlotte Hawkins Brown? Charlotte Hawkins Brown was an African American woman who deserved at least a ¹/₃ of the American History Book because she was a person who devoted her entire life to bettering and equaling education rights for colored students and someone worth being known about. Brown was born on June, 11 1883 in Henderson North Carolina. Charlotte

was not only the first woman, but also the first African American woman to get her Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University. Ericsson then became the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D in Engineering at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The fact that she was the first woman to get two different Ph.D’s is so inspiring to me. I cannot imagine doing the work to get the first Ph.D and the adversity she had to go through being both a woman and a black woman trying to do something