Family As An Anchor Institution Analysis

Shynia Summerville
African American Midterm Essay Exam
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#4 Family as an anchor institution
Discuss key ideas raised by Greene relating to the impact of slavery on the black family today, such as gender roles and extended families. Then compare with some of the points raised by Coates linking contemporary problems in the African American family and community, to impacts of mass incarceration and the legacy of slavery. Conclude by reflecting on some suggestions for creating a new public dialogue.
African Americans came into the U.S as slaves. Entry into the United States was not, as it was for white ethnic groups or any other ethnic group like it was for Blacks. African Americans were considered unhuman or different based upon the color their
Moral of the story, the term black doesn’t have good things behind them so therefore, even today, from history of what people may say about the African American community, we do not have a good name for ourselves based on again, what people have “heard” or chose to want to believe. Greene talks about in her short story “African American Families: A Legacy of Vulnerability and Resilience” about how African American households with the upbringing of their children must talk with their children on how to react or how to cope if ever encounter a racist person. Which, is sad because it shows that even today socialization in America still has racism and that’s what African Americans had to go through to get equal rights is distinct in America to this very day. Greene examines African American families. In contrast to the stereotypes of dysfunctional family forms, Green model’s African American strength, adaption, and resilience. The role of a female of a white woman was to be a stay at home mother
This was an organization that was led by W.E.B. Dubois and William Monroe Trotter. Dubois was the leader of the civil rights movement for African American rights along with being a poet, sociologist, historian, editor, educator, and scholar. William was a newspaper writer and real estate businessman. These two men joined together because they believed in the same things when it came to African American treatment and that belief was that African Americans were being treated very poorly and deserved equal rights. The film W.E.B. in 4 voices tells us that the Niagara movements was a meeting which, involved 29 men who created a list of demands for the African American community (ex. an end to segregation, equality of economic opportunities, unrestricted rights to voting, etc. The goal of this organization was to create social and political changes for African Americans. However, the movement only lasted for 5 years due to lack of organization amongst the group, although, the Niagara movement had little impact on legislative action, the ideas of the group led to a new formation of the National Association Advancement of Color People (NAACP) in 1909. The group had adopted many of the same goals that the Niagara movement had and also hired W.E.B. Dubois as their director, editor of their journals, and crisis. The NAACP played an important role in ending segregation in the