WOMEN AND AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Women and African Americans in Psychology

Women and African Americans in Psychology

Introduction

The African Americans, or Black Americans as they are called, is the largest minority group in the United States, after the Hispanic Americans. This is a racial group whose ancestry is believed to be from the sub-Saharan Africa. However, there are some African Americans who claim to have their roots from the European immigrants, Native American or the Asians. In general the African American populations is usually referred to as Negroes, blacks and Afro-Americans. Though African Americans are considered to be those immigrants from Africa who immigrated to America centuries ago. However, the recent black immigrants from Africa and the islands of the Caribbean are also considered within the categorization of African Americans. Those groups of immigrants who have recently immigrated to the United States, have practices, norms, believe and preferences those are totally different from that of the African Americas already living in the United States. The history of the black population, currently residing in the United States, begins with the arrival of the black slaves in the Americas during the 15th century and continues to the present day(McCague 1972).

Discussion

The first type of people that society acknowledged they were oppressing was African Americans. Many events led up to the Civil War, but this was the most fruitful event in attempting to abolish slavery. During the war, President Lincoln put in effect The Emancipation Proclamation, in 1963, which was the first national document dedicated to abolishing slavery, also it changed the reason of the war as it was originally about the southern states creating their own country for other freedoms as well. Blacks were not the only people fighting to abolish slavery as whites from the north also fought alongside them. Winslow Homer painted ...