Assimilation Of African Americans In The Film 500 Years Later
500 Years Later
This past weekend, I attended an event for Black History Month. At this event, there was a movie showing of the film 500 years later. The film covered issues from slavery, to the civil rights movement, to discrimination of African Americans today. After the film, the speaker, Kamau Kemayo, talked about the issues in the film and because of slavery, discrimination, and the baggage that African Americans hold on to which has caused Blacks to not adapt well to assimilation. What I have learned from Race and Ethnic class is the assimilation which she was specifically speaking of is structural assimilation, which is the assimilation African Americans have the lowest of. Structural assimilation only takes place when the dominant
This past weekend, I attended an event for Black History Month. At this event, there was a movie showing of the film 500 years later. The film covered issues from slavery, to the civil rights movement, to discrimination of African Americans today. After the film, the speaker, Kamau Kemayo, talked about the issues in the film and because of slavery, discrimination, and the baggage that African Americans hold on to which has caused Blacks to not adapt well to assimilation. What I have learned from Race and Ethnic class is the assimilation which she was specifically speaking of is structural assimilation, which is the assimilation African Americans have the lowest of. Structural assimilation only takes place when the dominant