Rethinking Race and Class in African-American Struggles for Equality, 1885- 1941

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In this semester, I am participating in the African-American study class. And with a special focus on slavery, entitled "Life in Struggle: Minority Ethnicity in Most Cultures", including everything about race, oppression, and equality. One of the prominent themes we discussed was resistant. It is the form in which it was formed, its effectiveness, and how it contributed to the historical results to date. In this class, I first learned what Capoeira is, but this is a unique dance form by slaves of Portuguese colonists who came from West Africa and Brazil 500 years ago. But it is more than just a dance. It involves martial arts disguised as a skilfully rhythmical and passionate dance element, and the slaves protect themselves and practice to celebrate their culture.

Slavery has been officially concluded, but the battle for equality of African Americans is not over. The former slave that was legally released was struggling to survive in the culture still considered a second-rate citizen. After short-term federal protection from 1865 to 1877, racial discrimination was institutionalized again by the formation of Jim Crow's law. The Jim Crow law was enacted at the state and federal level in 1876 and continued until 1965. In this long and complicated period, I saw African Americans being deprived of their expectations for their rights and equality little by little.