Essays 721 - 750
Ultimately, "It is through their friendships, their love, their shared oppression... that they collectively gain the strength to s...
to parade as white folds illustrates how she wanted her kindred to be just as proud of their true racial roots as they were with t...
"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...
respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...
lasting societal problems. Lewis notes, for example, that in the latter situation: "Social relations...
Jackson family that invites confrontation, paparazzi and law enforcement? In some ways it seems as if this situation, and the situ...
Then, you could go on to address the topic of race relations in Jacksonville from a broader perspective, which encompasses a brief...
"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...
explains: " Two of my older brothers, Junnie and Dwight, went into the Army to get away (Billy left college after one year, but he...
the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...
a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...
The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...
immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...
all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...
West Africa were Muslims and some black Muslims contend that "Islam is part of the genetic memory of blacks" (1996, p.67). Yet, th...
his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wi...
nature - the very truth of human nature - which is why it is often painful to accept. Indeed, Hansberrys work represents all that...
have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...
into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...
works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...
to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...
A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...
that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...
actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...
also the same determination that caused such alarm in those who feared him. "[Malcolm X] stung our consciences and awakened our m...
more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...
the following: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes ...