AFRICAN AMERICANS

African Americans

African Americans

Introduction

The history of Afro-Americans is a respected and a constitutional field of American history. In order to show black participation in the nation's growth and development, to prove the inevitability of black equality, or to demonstrate the inexorable progress made by Afro-Americans. In this paper, we try to explore the comparison of afro Americans with of Asian American paper issues of social economic stratification, gender and racial inequality. The paper focuses on the historical review of Afro Americans and Asian Americans. Finally, the paper answer, how they organize themselves to address their own issues of inequality and discrimination if any?

Discussion

Most people think that American history is the story of white people, and that is why black people, in recent years, have been demanding a history of their own. Standard histories are even more restrictive than universally allowed. The Negroes are mentioned as participants in the development of the country; heroes, achievements, inventions, duly recorded.

The immigration in the United States of Asian Americans refers to the phenomenon of international scope that brought people living on every continent to settle in the country since the early pioneer era. Immigration was the main source of population growth in the United States and has contributed largely to the cultural enrichment of American history. The socio-political and economic aspects of today's leading immigration have created the opening of national debates on how the ethnic and religious diversity, growth in employment of foreigners in the disadvantage of indigenous, settlement patterns, environmental and social impact, national identity, political affiliation, crime, moral values and habits.

Comparison between African Americans and Asian Americans

The people referred to today as African Americans were neither African nor American in the colonies. They involuntarily captured and transported from Africa to colonies throughout the Western Hemisphere for purposes of enslavement, or they descended from those people. Although among the oldest American-born populations, they tragically no longer had a legitimate home (Davidson, 2008).

African-American men and women in the antebellum United States shared everyday experiences in their struggle for freedom. Despite disparate lives created by regional differences, labor patterns, religious beliefs, and legal sanctions, enslaved and democratic people alike fought an unending battle to define and possess their individual liberty. African Americans freedom was an experience to be tasted and tested; for Southern whites, black freedom was a challenge to be circumscribed and, where possible, checked (Gatewood, 2000).

For African Americans, the era ...