“Race” is a misleading word, because there is no “race” which is composed of biologically pure individuals, due to human migration and the interracial births. Also different ethnicities don `t have pure culture because people with different ethnicities shared and share cultural heritage. And although these two (race and ethnicity) are different, which is considered a biological and cultural, but is sometimes considered the two go together like when we face the “identity” and “racism” .
This belief that racism is a racial category higher or lower than another, it is a stereotype. N negative stereotypes are not only positive, but are n `t only outwards but also to groups within the group. Also the feedback in a group of minority or others’ stereotypes may sometimes lead to reinforce and aggravate stereotypes.
Under this approach, this article try to explain that although a major objective of establishing African American studies is to challenge racism and racial discrimination, but their courses and curriculum is presented, they (scholars) have accepted stereotypes outside the group about themselves and who believe in the “darkness” as a “race” because they are separated from their culture of African American culture and ignored acculturation between American culture and American culture.
Therefore, this is to ignore the comments of group stereotypes and that in itself is a stereotype of the group which kept African Americans make a commitment to internationalization - but an identity-sub-sub-internationalization identity immersion.
Black Racial Identity
“They are all well,” it is a common term when we tend to classify people are n `t in our group. (Homogeneity of group theory).
But why and how to categorize people? (I will discuss this issue in another trial)
And most importantly that this matter is that those who are “we” that tend to separate “us” from “other” ?
As I will discuss this issue in this trial in the case of African American Studies: First
African Americans to accept themselves as “we”, for what they believe in black racial identity
Secondly, although one of the goals of African American studies is to challenge racial discrimination and racism, but as shown by the courses, which represents the view of racial blacks (although scholars)
Third African American studies strengthen the racially and darkness as a career. As
Cruz (Bobo, 2004) describes the development of black racial identity has five stages: 1
- Preencounter: African American has absorbed many of the beliefs and values of the dominant white culture - white is right, black is bad
2 - find [] the forces of the various events to recognize the impact of racism in one `s life.
3 - Immersion: anything of value in life should be relevant to black or black and avoid the symbols of whiteness
4 - Internationalization: establish relationship with the target, which recognize a positive sense of racial identity
5 - Internalization-Commitment: translating personal sense of darkness in a general sense commitment
But African American studies seems to be decreasing in part because of the third stage of immersion stage - claiming that reinforces a new kind of identity which I call “sub-sub immersion-globalization. ”
concept of stereotype stereotyping
According
theory, if the change stereotypes, do one of three ways:
;
1 - book-keeping model: Adaptation of stereotypes to adapt to new information
2 - model conversion throw the stereotype of age and start again
3 - subtyping model: creating a new stereotype that is a sub-classification of existing stereotypes
” but I would add another way to change stereotypes regarding as a new kind of African American identity; dipping sub-sub internationalization
4 - In addition to the old model stereotype maintenance further details
not only create stereotypes about others, but ourselves. As is evident in the case of African American Studies, maintaining a sense of blackness and add internationalization, but not black or internationalization change it.
considered my hypothesis in four colleges and universities: Boston University, Yale University, University of Madison-Visconssin and Bates College. (although the courses are `tn the same, but they are very similar)
At first the courses seem to be neutral:
African American HISTORY OF THE BEGINNINGS OF EMANCIPATION,
AFRICAN SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS,
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845 - 1877
the Harlem Renaissance, African American
POLICY,
FREEDOM AND IDENTITY IN BLACK CULTURE, MEMORY
/ BLACK IDENTITY IN THE U.S.
microcosm of
BLACK CREATIVITY, CULTURE POLICY
GENDER, RACE, AND SCIENCE
African American ISCED
< , br /> minority in Hollywood movie,
African American Literature,
African American popular music,
JAZZ IN TRANSITION, 1960 - 1980,
JAZZ AND CINEMA,
century African American poetry, < , br />
African American NOVELA
BLACK WOMEN IN MUSIC,
twentieth century American Dance. CARIB
LIVES: psychosocial aspects,
field methods in cultural anthropology,
THEORY AND METHOD IN STUDIES
African American
… … …
But consider the description of some of the courses:
White Redemption: film and co-optation of African American history:
Since its inception in the early twentieth century, film has discussed how to represent black suffering. This course examines one aspect of this debate: the persistent themes of white goodness, innocence, and blamelessness in films that are supposedly about black history and culture. historical and cultural themes discussed in the film include the enslavement of Africans, reconstruction, and the civil rights movement. special attention is given to films in the Interracial male-buddy.
RACE AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA:
A review of the history of race and medicine in the United States, primarily but not exclusively focused on African Americans’ encounters with the health care system. Topics include slavery and health, doctors, immigrants, and epidemics, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the use of minorities as research subjects, and race and genetic disease. As we see
“African American Studies” ignores the interaction between African American culture and American culture.
Crosscultural Interaction Models &Models
If we link the categories of racial identity development for black models and models of interaction Crosscultural ( Nishida, 1999) and then evaluate and judge Ameriacn African Studies under this, you will find a new fact:
1 - Genocide model, a model of segregation, adaptaion model Model and assimilation
with identity preencounter
2 - meeting with the resistance and immersion identity
< br /> 3 - model of acculturation and pluralism with the internationalization and
model of inter-nationalization
identity commitment
Now let’s find that African American has ignored the studies on cultural interactions and acculturation in this discipline and its courses. There are courses on multiculturalism, interactions between African culture and American culture, and the effects of American culture to African culture. So
identity in this discipline instead of going to the internationalization of identity commitment stage, and returns back to the stage of immersion and reproduction of resistance interactions.
Thus this discipline produces a new kind of identity which he called “sub-sub dive internationalization” of identity.
Conclusion:
As explained above, one of the most important aim of establishing African American Studies has been forward to the stage internationalization commitment identity through pluralism (interaction model) and with respect to acculturation (Crosscultural model), but misleading because of a change of group outside of the stereotypes, which causes a decrease in part to the phase immersion identity.
According to a new exchange rate of stereotypes that called it “addition model”, African Americans (scholars) kept the old sense of darkness (like race) and add to internationalize it.
This provoked a new kind of monster, but the identity is not an immersion in the identity or the internationalization of an identity, but, sub-sub-internationalization identity immersion.
So this discipline instead of developing internationalization - commitment identity, strengthens the racially and black as a race.
But here is an important question:
Since this process occurs in the academy, what is its influence on society? Your response can be explained in another essay.
Notes:
1 - Four model of interaction between racial and ethnic categories;
; pluralism: pluralism is a condition in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but
social parity. Pluralism is the goal of our society in the recent trend toward multiculturalism
Assimilation: Assimilation is the process by which minority
gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.
Segregation: Segregation refers to the separation of physical and social
categories. Until early 1960, Jim Crow laws formally
segregated hotels, restaurants, parks, buses and even drinking fountains
. .. Genocide most brutal form of racism is genocide
which is the systematic annihilation of one category of people by another
2 - Crosscultural models:
Adaptation: the process of change over time that occur within
people who have completed their primary socialization process in a
culture and then come into continuous
assimulation is uni-directional process towards the host culture and
value requires changes
acculturation is a two way process and not `t require changes in values
. References
1-Bobo, J. Hudley, C. Michel, C, 2004, THE READER OF BLACK STUDIES, New York, Routledge, pp.397-400. 2-
Nishida, H, 1999, A Cognitive Communaication intercultural approach based on schema theory, Int.J.Intercultural Rel, vol.23, No. 5, p. 762
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