African American Studies Reflection

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What made me interested in the Introduction to African American Studies course, is to have a more in-depth understanding more about the Diaspora, I took a course in the African Diaspora and found it too be very interesting and I also, wanted to understand in depth the history and realities of American Americans in the past and current.
The perception of race and ethnicity always played a role in my life the past and the present, there are many things, especially now at my age that I am just starting to realize the different perceptions of how my race plays in my daily life and it is a much different perception than when I do enclose my ethnicity, it made that perception more noticeable in my daily life. I noticed earlier in my life on how

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