Stack does and excellent job of linking a great human story with the “larger economic and social analysis of migration, families and poverty”. “Call to Home” offers a unusual view of African American communities coming together, determined to make it happen in todays America. Through interviewing as well as extensive research she uncovers the reason for the African American return to the south. She proposes that the reason for the African American reverse migration is “ the nostalgia for home” and connection to family” To understand the nostalgia for home we must first get a sense as to why the African American migrated north. More commonly called the “Great Migration” of the twentieth century.
“Blackness” of American culture probably got its beginning with demand for slaves to cultivate sugarcane and other crops for what groups of black slaves were forcibly shipped from their homes to America. They did not immigrate, seeking greater opportunity, like others; they came in chains (Perry). They were seized from their villages and homes leaving all their possessions behind. They came from diverse cultures and the only possessions they were able to bring with them were “their own ideas about life, their own cultures, and their own cosmology” (Perry). Dr. Munashe Furusa, in his presentation on “African Influence the World”, emphasizes that for one to understand his/her destiny one should come to understanding of his/her origin and nature which can explain the meaning of “blackness”.
Their ideas often differed from other black leaders. DuBois’s affiliation with the NAACP attempted to solve the problem through integration. Garvey’s UNIA centered around the idea of blacks helping blacks, attempting to relieve blacks of any dependence on whites. Both men had a lasting impact on generations to come. The beliefs of W.E.B.
I. James Baldwin used transgressive text and figurative language to convey his life ideas about African Americans, lower class citizens, and homosexuals. II. Novels focus on African American rights and restrictions with being African American. A. African Americans were born to change a world that thinks less of them − The Fire Next Time 1. Describes how African Americans need to make change to what they were born into, “You were born where you were born… you were …You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. Throughout the book professor Nash emphasizes on the struggles an early America had to deal with developing a country based on independence and freedom, the concept which is the foundation of the “Declaration of Independence”, and enslave the men, women, and children of Africa. Through the American Revolution it was discovered that there was inconsistency with slave system and the principle reasons for the problems between England and America. We have to ask, why was slavery protected as long as it was? Within the book there were many reasons that explained why the nation failed to end slavery but the main reason being the fear that Georgia and South Carolina’s would refuse to join the union if they were forced to abolish it.
The overview of the earlier history is important to grasp because it lays the groundwork to understanding the history of the family. Their troubled history starts and can date back to slavery. The history provides an in dept background in to the everyday struggle of being an American male in the United States. The feeling of not being accepted, oppressed and mistreated is a cycle that seems to continue to repeat itself in the Bosket family as well a feeling that many African Americans can agree with day. Many theories can be applied to each individual in the Bosket family.
He questions whether it is even feasible for an African American to merge into society as both an American and as an African, without being held back or looked down upon. Dubois writes that this prejudice engenders self-abasement in the black individual. Their struggle is that they want to be both “Negro and... American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.” Their American identity slips under their African identity and this dominant identity is the only one that people see them as. Dubois equates the experience of black America with striving to create a singular consciousness out of an identity made up of dual perspectives. His goal is to combine these two perceived identities into one and let all the prejudices fall away creating an equal, fair community.
Racial Inequality in the South In Darkroom, Lila Quintero Weaver, illustrates the black uprising against racial inequality, through her family’s experience as Argentinean immigrants to Marion, Alabama in the 1960’s. The family moved into an area that was a hot bed of racial strife, where black people are the majority of the population but white people are the dominant race. One would believe that basic human rights would be availed to all people regardless of race or ethnicity; Weaver reveals that there were times in life when these rights were not justly adhered to. Everyone of age in this country has the right to register and vote. In Darkroom Weaver shows that black citizens had to fight for their right to vote.
It has shaped me into the person I am now. My culture of origin is African-American. Within some African American families, the formation of a household begins not with marriage, but the birth of a child. African Americans tend to be strict and hold demanding behavioral standards. Grandparents, aunts, or uncles tend to play a major role in the maintenance of African American families.
The concept of “race” and “racial ideologies have been a big issue throughout history in the U.S. Race has been diverse, where the whites and blacks have been separated in society. The Caucasian had land, house, and money living the good life, while the black people had to work as slaves for the plantation owners. They had nothing meaning not even their freedom. Racial ideology is a person’s fixed belief on a certain race whether it is good or bad. Racial ideologies are probably most common in Caucasian people towards black people.