Blog 2

Maybe it's because I find word documents and PDFs a bit strenuous to read, but I had trouble grasping what each author was trying to say. I was able to figure out a couple points they were each making, but I am still unable to understand each essay completely.

Asante was teaching us the idea of Afrocentricity, which is the idea of African Americans reconnecting with their true origins in Africa. Asante believes that many African Americans have Eurocentric roots. Another topic Asante discussed was the fact that African American history is rarely studied in high school, especially when compared to Caucasian American history. The only times it is looked at is during civil rights and slavery, but these two topics are not even fully discussed.

One of the topics I pulled out of Hall's essay was the idea of "being black" and how the idea has been formed overtime through culture, and is a racist idea. Aside from accents and skin tone, everyone in the world is the same. But because we have the term "being black", we form ideas and stereotypes about particular groups of people.

I did not fully understand what Hook was trying to say about post modernism, but I can tell she believes that the majority of post modern history writings are written by white males. She also mentioned the idea of looking at blacks in separate classes, like we do with whites.

Finally, West tells us that it is important that everyone is equal, no matter what differences we all have.