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    Diaspora Studies is the study of the experiences blacks had when they were spreaded throughout the world from the continent of Africa. African Diaspora is the term regularly used to depict the mass scattering of people groups from Africa amid the Transatlantic Slave Trades, from the 1500s to the 1800s.This Diaspora took a huge number of individuals from Western and Central Africa to various areas all through the Americas and the Caribbean. Slavery is a very important discussion in America’s history

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    Throughout history, black culture has heightened the authenticity of struggles. Sometimes good and sometimes bad and every story is different based upon the people involved and the setting. A person becomes who they are when they recognize passion, work ethic and growing forth from anything past tense but in most black history, black people are shaped around this stereotype that they all grew up in the projects, father isn’t in their lives, have many children by different women or with men, take

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    immigrants over African Americans as a means to conceal their racism. White employers’ preference to hire Caribbean immigrants over black Americans is not based on the perceived “high regards” they may hold for the Caribbean immigrants personal values, work ethic, drive, and motivation. Instead, they use these factors to manipulate and convince society that it is preferable to hire Afro-Caribbeans over African Americans. They do so by holding on to the racist ideology that African Americans are inferior

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    The origin of African-American music Nowadays, the United States has the largest music market in the world. Inheriting from the European tradition music from the European immigrants, American music has been deeply influenced by African-American music in both rhythmic and lyrical styles. African-American music includes a diverse range of music genres, such as blues, hip hop, jazz which are developed by African Americans. although these forms of African-American music may different a lot in music

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    Slavery

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    West Indies” ----- Slinger Francisco aka The Mighty Sparrow I must begin by saying how heartbroken I was on reading the suffering and mistreatment my people ordained back in the days of Slavery. Coming from a family that is mostly comprised of African descent individuals; it makes me sad and in utter repugnance. It's funny how life back then still influences the way my people think and approach their education, family, and general lifestyle. Slavery has

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    the world, how society treats them versus how they need to be treated is important for future generations of woman and men of the black race to change an atmosphere in America and the rest of the world, to their benefit. Feminism, black feminism, African feminism, womanism and Africana womanism, prove to hold conflicting yet engaging viewpoints within the academic world of black woman. As some terms are preferred over others, it is still great to have discussions concerning what black women think

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    that slavery in America has written on African American DNA. The fruits of slavery produced the internalization of negative: mentalities, inferiority of identity, and images in black media. The peculiar institution, also known as slavery, has perpetuated the slave’s mentality amongst black Americans . Before becoming enslaved and dehumanized in America, they black slaves were people. African people. Slave masters first had to enslave the minds of the African people to create slaves. This process

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    that characterized the attitude of many people of African Descent as a direct result of the callous treatment that Africa as a whole suffered at the hands of Europeans. Europe not only ravished Africa of a significant resource in the millions of lives that it stole and enslaved. Europe also pillaged the continent with the brutal institution of colonization. The manacles of colonization inspired great suffering in the lands and lives of Africans examples include Land exploitation, labor exploitation

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    interest. However, while analyzing the African American demographic the events hosted by the Alumni Relations department seem to have low turnout for the African American crowd. Though the graduation rate for the African American demographic is approximately 60%, the turn out for events that the Black Alumni Chapter host are fairly decent, however events are not consistent for them. Reason being is the Black Alumni Chapter tends to host national historical African American events like Martin Luther King

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    Thanks to her family and the people she grew up among, she knows that the African people are already feminists at heart, despite the fact that there are lots of things to improve. Since she learnt feminism in Africa, she believes that feminism is a fundamental part of the Africa and it cannot be separated from Africa. Besides,

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