Essays about: "African Americans"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the words African Americans.

  1. 11. History, Identity, Trauma and Narratives in Toni Morrison's Beloved in relation to "Black Lives Matter" (BLM)

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Moayad Bani Younes; [2016]
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    Abstract : This is a study of African-American traumas in Toni Morrison's Beloved in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM). It attempts to explore those stances in the two modes of narrative that impede the justice and peace for African-Americans within particular historical and social contexts. READ MORE

  3. 12. Equality for all Americans?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hedwig Lindgren; [2016]
    Keywords : Discrimination; Constitutionality; Disenfranchisement; Equal; African American; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Supreme Court declared §4(b) of the Voting Right Act (1965) unconstitutional in the case of Shelby County v Holder 570 U.S. in 2013. This is a recent decision regarding disenfranchisement towards African Americans which ends up not protecting the civil rights of all American citizens. READ MORE

  4. 13. African American Education and Progression in Raplh Ellison's Invisible Man

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jonas Ljungholm; [2016]
    Keywords : Education; African American; Michel Foucault; Bildungsroman; Segregation;

    Abstract :                                   Abstract Literary portraits of African Americans’ struggles in the United States for a more equal society have provided valuable insights into the pain and hardship they had to endure for a large portion of the United States’ existence. Ralph Ellison’s famous novel Invisible Man is one of those novels and is the primary source for this study. READ MORE

  5. 14. Remembering slavery : The mobilization of social and collective memory of slavery in the 21st century

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Goran Zubak; [2015]
    Keywords : slavery; social memory; collective memory; ethnicity; gender roles; African-Americans; Caucasians; post-colonial; gender;

    Abstract : The overall aim of the study is to investigate how a social and collective memory is mobilized by the directors’ depiction of ethnicity and gender roles from a post- colonial and gender perspective. The thesis focuses on how ethnicity and gender roles are depicted in each movie and how this results in a mobilization of a social and collective memory. READ MORE

  6. 15. "Am I Next?" : a narrative analysis of African Americans’ public responses to the deadly shooting of Michael Brown

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Nadine Flatt; [2015]
    Keywords : African American; oppression; police violence; group identity; social justice; Michael Brown; United States; narratives; blackness; racial stereotypes; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Cases of deadly use of police force against young colored men have historically been, and are still common in the American context. The public reactions by the social group of African Americans to such incidents aim to draw attention to how racism and racist stereotypes is affecting policing in the United States. READ MORE