Wednesday, November 23, 2011

THE African Youth League: AFRICAN NIGHT


















ABOUT THE AYL (Provided by ayl.org.ohio-state.edu/)
The African Youth League [AYL] at the Ohio State University is a student organization consisting of very dedicated diverse African students who commit their time and energy towards a common goal of creating awareness for the University and the community in general by encouraging a positive interaction between the student body. AYL has done this over and over each year by hosting numerous events that entertained and educated at the same time.


The Purposes of this association are:
El Hadji, Treasury of African Youth League (AYL)
1.To foster a greater understanding and unity among students from all African countries at Ohio State University
2.To Promote and preserve the culture and heritage of African people
3.To develop and maintain social relationship with other organizations and ethnic groups
4.To encourage interaction among African students, students of OSU, and the society at large




For more information, please check out ayl.org.ohio-state.edu/ 
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Co-Whites (How & Why white women "betrayed" the struggle for Racial Equality In the United States

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About the Author: Professor Emeka Aniagolu is from Enugu State, Nigeria. He attended the renowned high school in Nigeria, Government College Umuahia. He did his undergraduate work in Political Science at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and his graduate work in Political Science-African and African American Studies, at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director for the Black World Studies of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, where he teaches African and African-American History and Politics.



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ABOUT BOOK: Co-Whites (How & Why white women "betrayed" the struggle for Racial Equality In the United States) Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction, through the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, to the present day.





The work explores how white American women, in their search and struggle for gender equality in the United States, related to three principal streams in America's socioeconomic and political history:

 White supremacy, women of color-especially African American women, and the freedom and civil rights struggle for racial equality. The United States has irreversibly become a multiracial and multicultural democracy and white supremacy has become untenable; however, Aniagolu concludes that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States.

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Well-researched and lucidly written, the work makes intellectually and historically coherent a subject matter often muttered in small circles and that takes the form of scholarly 'civil wars' inside 'Women's Studies' between white American and African American women scholars and schools of thought. The work grapples with a serious issue in light of the 2008 presidential elections in the United States, offering insightful explanations certain to evoke lively debate in university classrooms, amongst professorial colleagues, and in the general public.




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Friday, November 4, 2011

The A.Y.L Debate Forum (Part 1)

The African Youth League is the largest student organization in Ohio State University- one of the largest Universities in the World.


The purpose of today's feature is to afford you- our listeners the ability to assess the quality of introspection amongst African students here at the Ohio State University.



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