African American Race Mobility

Whites benefitted from slavery all the hard work of the slaves and still benefiting now from hard work from slaves. Its proven facts. Blacks had more of a disadvantage and with less resources are slowly evolving but yet educating themselves and their families over the years. Many people have their own opinions about slavery’s and its effect on both parties. The strengths of this article are the different out looks I gives from different people and their thoughts on slavery and certain cultural values.

Of these over 835,000 black farmers and laborers faced particularly difficult times in the rural South” (“Black Americans 1929-1941”). Blacks made up more than half of the farming population. Without them the production of products would have a significant decline. “Often they were denied public works employment supposedly available to all needy citizens. Individuals were even threatened at relief centers when applying for work” (“Black Americans 1929-1941”).

The fundamental idea of black economics is under investigation in this research to explain the gaps that exist in the community in terms of unemployment, poverty, income, wealth, assets, and education compared to the leading racial group. According to the article, Learning Race, Socializing Blackness: A Cross-Generational Analysis of Black Americans’ Racial Socialization Experiences, “The contemporary discourse that is prevalent in the African American community has been documented for many years since the post-Civil Rights Movement Era” (Nunnally). Fueling this discourse is a working assumption that somehow African Americans are equal to other racial groups and the economic barriers that exist in their community are caused by their lack of

CNN.com). For many years, African American did not got the rights that they deserve, and because of that, they were barely making the livings in the United States for many years prior the ending of the discrimination against the color of the skin. Which made them low-income and because of that much crime were happening in the African American community. But even after many decades, many people still discriminate against the color of the skin. Still, African American people are

African Immigrants are recent population in America and make up a tiny part of the population, but have higher levels of completed education compared to Afro-Caribbeans, African Americans, Whites, and Asians. However the average income of Africans is less than the average income of Afro-Caribbeans. Even though a higher percentage of Africans live below the poverty line, compared to Afro-Caribbeans, they have a lower unemployment rate. Like West Indians, Africans are able to have mobility in Black communities, but are unable have the same in white

Runaway adds of the seventeenth and eighteenth century show how the Native American was often worth less money to the owner. In the runaway adds of the time, there is a difference between the worth of the Afro American slave and the Native American slave. The examples of James, a runaway from Nicholas Bayard, and Cato, a runaway slave from Deacon Thomas, show the difference between the worth of the slaves (Bayard). Both are forty years old, yet James is only worth twenty shillings, whereas Cato is worth five pounds, thus five times as much as James (Wilsan). The most outstanding difference between the two is that James is a Native American and James an Afro American.

MENTAL HEALTH: BLACK COMMUNITY Mental Health in the Black community has rapidly grown overtime. According to the Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. (Mental Health American p. 3) Mental health disorder is popular in the Black community. Which can include: depression, ADHD and PTSD, which usually stem from either a violent past or background.

Though family and kindship were rooted in African American traditions for its use of “linking lineages and villages” (Goode, Jones, Jackson 155), it is also immensely valued for the reason that numerous African American families were broken up and disorganized for so many decades due to slavery and unequal rights, thus many families had to rely on extended family, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and close friendships to care for, and socialize their children, highlighting their perseverance to reestablish a strong family presence despite conditions where biological parents were absent. This still true in African American culture today, for multiple generations frequently reside in the same household to provide social and emotional support for the child if the mother and father are working or generally absent, as well as extended relatives, outside of the home, providing financial support, following a cultured valued belief of a collective community where many African American’s “pool resources for a common benefit” (Goode, Jones, Jackson 156), strengthing the family and community as a whole and improving the political and societal status of the group, while keeping racial consciousness in

Although by the late eighteenth century slavery was disappearing from Connecticut the 1790 census indicates that a considerable number of free African American families continued to live in households that were headed by whites. Likely due to the economic and social struggle that remained, however in the town of Fairfield the census contained two households headed by non-whites. One of these two families headed by Sarah Hubbard had been independent since 1769. While most of Connecticut’s African Americans gained their freedom as slavery was abolished the Hubbards do not fit this pattern.

The effects of slavery are still felt around the world today. In some countries, society treated the majority of people of African descent as second-class citizens up until the 21st century, and many argue that this still occurs today—with police brutality providing damning data showing that prejudice remains ingrained into society. In 2015, 40 percent of the unarmed people shot by police were black men, despite the fact that black men make up just 6 percent of the nation’s population (Lowery 1). Between 1525 and 1866 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World, however, historians estimate that only 10.7 million survived (Gates 1). These 2 million deaths are contributed to deplorable living conditions and savage masters.

The Appalachia region is less racial and culturally diverse than the rest of the United States. Though, this seems to be gradually shifting. Traditionally, the region has been largely occupied by non-Hispanic whites. The 1990 census exposed the beginning of racial and ethnic change of the Appalachian region (Salob, 2014). The proportion of African Americans was 24.9 percent which was approximately three times greater than non-Hispanic whites at 8.1 percent The poverty rate amongst African Americans in Appalachia was 27 percent with 12.1 percent being non-Hispanic whites.

This essay discusses black people in the 1900s and their thoughts on The Great Migration. Slaves had just been emancipated, however 64 years later the struggle for survival didn’t get any easier for them. Blacks in the south was drowning, and barely maintaining. Blacks in the north however, were doing more decent then people in the south. It was easier for northerner to get a job and afford education, southerners on the other hand could not, and in fact they work more in fight to live than survive.

A black doctor is forced out of his new home when the majority-white neighborhood sets his garage on fire. Soon after, a line of explosives are planted to drive out black families nearby. “98 percent of the public-housing units in Chicago” are built in majority-black neighborhoods. Time after time after time, black people are denied loans and mortgages, while their white counterparts are granted them happily by the lenders. And yet, one often encounters crude statements about the “ghetto”, the alleged home of all black families.

African Americans are no longer held in shackles, but are undermined because of their living conditions and race. There are a lot of things that influence African Americans lives, but poverty and jail incarceration seems to be at the root. According to the State of Working America in a 2013 study, African Americans poverty rates is the highest at 27%, compared to White people and Hispanic people. The study also shows that families with only mothers are the highest in poverty at 39.6%; families with both parents ' poverty rate are 16.9%. The absence of a male figure is critical in poverty; it is a 22.7% difference.

During the 20th century, African American starting leaving the south. They left behind the racial segregation, discrimination, and violence in search of greater economic opportunity. This was the forming of the “Great Migration” of 1.5 million African Americans that happened between 1910 and 1945. Also another 6.5 million moved north and west between 1945 and 1970. Since the 1960’s, many black urban immigrants have achieved success where as some have been left behind.