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  2. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out - Wikipedia

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    It is the first published book by Afro-Germans. It is the first written use of the term Afro-German. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources, the collection brings to life the stories of black German women living amid racism, sexism and other institutional constraints in Germany.

  3. Top 10 Black love stories that made their mark in TV and film

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    These top 10 couples show human and nuanced examples of Black romance on the big and small screens. Representation matters—and it’s more than just seeing faces that look like yours on screen.

  4. Social inertia - Wikipedia

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    An example of social inertia in the culture of the United States is the culture of honor which exists in parts of the South and West. In the culture of honor, violence is seen as an acceptable way of responding to insults or threats to a person's self, family, property, or reputation.

  5. Psychological inertia - Wikipedia

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    Psychological inertia is the tendency to maintain the status quo (or default option) unless compelled by a psychological motive to intervene or reject this. [1]Psychological inertia is similar to the status-quo bias but there is an important distinction in that psychological inertia involves inhibiting any action, whereas the status-quo bias involves avoiding any change which would be ...

  6. Cognitive inertia - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive inertia is the tendency for a particular orientation in how an individual thinks about an issue, belief, or strategy to resist change. Clinical and neuroscientific literature often defines it as a lack of motivation to generate distinct cognitive processes needed to attend to a problem or issue.

  7. Representation of African Americans in media - Wikipedia

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    According to Dustin Collins, Black gay men are usually portrayed in the media as "swishy queens" or overly aggressive. [35] The character of Keith Charles, a gay black man, in Six Feet Under has been cited as an example of this in a 2013 Sexuality and Culture article by Jay Poole. He argued that Keith is portrayed as overly masculine ...

  8. African-American culture - Wikipedia

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    African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.

  9. Stereotypes of African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843. Minstrel shows became a popular form of theater during the nineteenth century, which portrayed African Americans in stereotypical and often disparaging ways, some of the most common being that they are ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical. [1]