African-Americans: Their Past and Present

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The paper documents the history of African-Americans in America until the twentieth century when they were finally granted rights to full citizenship. The paper explores the connection between blacks and crime and the damaging effects of mass incarceration. The paper also examines the portrayal of African-Americans by the media and the situation for African-Americans with regards to employment. The paper shows how blacks are still suffering from their years of slavery and concludes with the hope that as the United States becomes more racially diverse, their situation will only improve.

From the Paper:

"The history of African Americans concerns the story of a group of people who were displaced from their different homelands and struggled through great adversity to adapt to their new "homes" and redefine their traditions and culture. Since arriving in North America, their dreams, thoughts, hopes and actions became responsible for some of the most profound economic, political, and cultural developments in the modern Western world. Black resistance slowly destroyed the political and economic system of slavery and created new forms of democracy and equality for all people of color and women. Black creativity influenced all forms of Western art, music, dance and theater.
Black intellectualism looked at various forms of scholarship in entirely different ways to establish new methodologies and approaches."

Sample of Sources Used:

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