Essays about: "African Americans"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 21 essays containing the words African Americans.

  1. 6. Rights Claims Through Music - A Study on Collective Identity and Social Movements

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Dzeneta Sadikovic; [2019]
    Keywords : music; politics; human rights; freedom of speech; oppression; discrimination; racism; culture; protest; social movements; sociology; musicology; slavery; civil rights; african americans; collective identity;

    Abstract : This study is an analysis of musical lyrics which express oppression and discrimination of the African American community and encourage potential action for individuals to make a claim on their rights. This analysis will be done methodologically as a content analysis. READ MORE

  3. 7. "Do you want to help them" Analyzing the representation of African Americans in Expressen's news reports of 53 youths from Chicago visiting Stockholm in 1966

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Keenan Allen; [2019]
    Keywords : Representation; African Americans; Swedes; Stereotype; Discourse;

    Abstract : This study is a qualitative content analysis, aiming to analyze the representation of African Americans in reports made by the Swedish newspaper Expressen, covering a journey with 53 youths from Chicago to Stockholm in 1966. This study has a critical approach to understanding how preferred meanings were reproduced in Expressen’s representation of the African American participants. READ MORE

  4. 8. HEALTH DISPARITIES OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE IN COMBINATION WITH INCARCERATION

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Author : Anna Maria Lami; [2018]
    Keywords : crime; disparities; health outcome; incarceration; life-course perspective; social determinants;

    Abstract : Poverty it is said to have harsh outcomes on one's antisocial or even delinquent behavior. Other factors as well lead an individual to antisocial behavior those are the environment that they are living, and their genes that have passed from one generation to the other one. READ MORE

  5. 9. Circulating Emotions in James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man and in American Society

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Alexandra Cassel; [2017]
    Keywords : Ahmed; America; Baldwin; emotions; fear; Freud; psychoanalysis; racism; sexuality; stereotypes; uncanny;

    Abstract : This essay explores how James Baldwin’s short story Going to Meet the Man depicts racist attitudes toward African-Americans in American society. Further, this essay also shows how racism is linked to a circulation of emotions that unconsciously generates a xenophobic nation affecting even those who implicitly are regarded as genuine citizens of that community. READ MORE

  6. 10. Crossing the Divide: Voice and Representation of African Americans : Kathryn Stockett and Harper Lee: - I understand the weight of history but can I be your sister?

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Munevver Atmaca; [2016]
    Keywords : African Americans;

    Abstract : This project examines how the oppression of African Americans, especially those in domestic service to white families, is reflected in literature. The two works The Help and To Kill a Mockingbird will be the main sources. READ MORE