African-Americans

Black Psychology V Traditional Psychology

Black psychology is a historical concept. The history of African American people in the United States is a journey that includes physical and psychological oppression and travels through specific intergenerational efforts to improve the condition of a race that has face slavery, poverty, racism, discrimination and basically powerlessness across all sectors of American society. On the other hand, traditional psychology is based upon fundamental principles of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanistic psychotherapies.

Design of Living Style of African-Americans

For the past years, the African American culture has steadily gained popularity and acceptance in all of America. From hair styles, fashion, language, music and the arts - African American identity is now strongly established as part of the American way of life. Many notable African Americans are found in wide-ranging areas of employment from the high ranking positions in corporate and political arenas to the far-reaching fields of science, religion and entertainment.

I am because we are and because we are therefore I am

This means that everyone in the world has his/her own importance. It can best be explained by “It is a dreadful affliction, not very frequent among men, being a melting down of the flesh and limbs into urine. The patient never stops making water, and the flow is incessant, like the opening of aqueducts.”

MAAFA

Maafa (also known as the African Holocaust or Holocaust of Enslavement) is a word derived from the Swahili term for disaster, terrible occurrence or great tragedy. The term refers to the 500 years of suffering of Africans and the African diaspora, through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, invasion, oppression, dehumanization and exploitation.

Aspects of the slave trade were controlled by indigenous Africans themselves. Several African nations such as the Ashanti of Ghana and the Yoruba of Nigeria had economies depending solely on the trade. African peoples such as ...