African american essay

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GE Assessment Essay (Final Exam-Take Home)
Background information: To describe the African American experience throughout the course
of United States history, African American writer Margaret Walker once stated, “Handicapped
as we have been by a racist system of dehumanizing slavery and segregation, our American
history of nearly five hundred years reveals that our cultural and spiritual gifts brought from
our African past are still intact” (On Being Female, Black, and Free; Essays by Margaret Walker,
1 99 ’7).
Indeed, the African American experience has been a dual story of oppression and resiliency.
From the Atlantic slave trade of the 14th- 19th centuries to present-day inequalities, African
Americans have consistently suffered the injustices of racism and white supremacy despite
significant strides towards equality. Through this suffering, however, African Americans have
forged strategies for survival and resistance; yet one of the greatest challenges of studying the
African American experience is reconciling the history of anti-black oppression with the
history of black resistance.
This assignment asks you to examine both the impact of racism on African American lives, and
the strategies that Africans have devised to make life more livable in the face of racist injustice.
We have divided the African American experience into four broad chronological eras, from
slavery to the civil rights movement (the era of l97os-present is excluded because our class did
not cover this part of the African-American experience)
1.) The Middle Passage and early American Slavery (pm-1793)
2.) Antebellum and Civil War America (1793-1865)
3.) Reconstruction and the Age of Jim Crow (186 5-194 1)
4.) Civil Rights and Black Power (1941-1 9 70)
Assignment: Select one of the eras listed above. Write an essay of 3-5 pages in which you
discuss specific challenges African Americans have faced in regards to racism and white
supremacy as indicated by the era you have chosen and the specific ways in which African
Americans havedemenstrated resistance and resiliency tothese obstacles.
Instructions Your essay must include the following components
I. An introductory paragraph providing an interpretation of Margaret Walker’s quote along 7 with an overview of the topic.

2. Transition to the body of’fhe essay; indicate the era you have chosen; the, for the era you
have chosen, first describe and discuss, with examples, the categories of racial oppression
blacks faced during that era. Then, examine the ways in which African Americans
demonstrated resiliency and resistance to these obstacles. You are free to interpret notions of
resistance as you choose. For instance, you may focus on acts of political resistance, like the
organization of slave revolts, the quest for black voting rights, the pursuit of political office, or
the establishment of anti-racist social movements. You may also focus on African American
culture by examining the development of family life and community, religious worship, or the
creation of art and literature. Accurate names, dates, and events must also be included.

3. Your concluding paragraph should summarize your ideas about this topic. It should present
your conclusions about the dual role of racism and resiliency in the era you have chosen, and
the continued impact of racism and African American resiliency on race relations in the
present-day United States.

4. Your essay will need to include references to at least four materialswthis may include book
chapters from our textbook/ articles/books/ films/documents from instructional resources given
to you on Bb-studied and discussed in your class during the semester. You may include
additional materials from other sources, if you choose. But, the four cited materials from your
course are a minimum.

5. Your essay should be typed, double spaced (12 point Times New Roman, using one inch
margins). The sixth edition of the APA (Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association) will be the required reference for the writing and citation guidelines for this essay.
6. Submit your essay through Safe Assignments on or before 11:59 pm, Tuesday, November
Z’S‘h, 2014. Essays that are a week late will not be accepted. Essays less than one-week late will
be accepted but will be penalized at 170 points per day (during a 24-hour period). Remember
that Safe Assignments only accepts MS or Rich Text Documents. Essays will receive a failing
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