Essays 1 - 30
In five pages this paper discusses how black literature was influenced by the late 20th century's Black Panther party. Five sourc...
complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...
In six pages the ways in which black literature's aesthetic norms have changed and evolved are discussed in a consideration of the...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...
In six pages this paper examines women's power and how it is portrayed in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God and Ric...
In five pages the slavery chants continue to reverberate as they connect black literature and poetry past and present. Five sourc...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...
it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...
has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...
of Education, which occurred a month after his death. Locke is considered to be an intellectual. He had no illusions about color...
the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...
one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...
In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...
programs for a specific race or ethnicity. The research question, by default, then, is: What types of educational programs help B...
In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...
This paper reviews key literature like Cornel West Race Matters and WEB Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk to explore the manner in w...
6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...
purely social we can be separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted ...
is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...
where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...
grouped under the loose heading of "Jim Crow," not only forbade blacks from voting, but also segregated them from white citizens i...
In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...
In a paper that consists of three pages the history of the U.S. black civil rights movement is examined in terms of mainstream soc...
Black minstrelsy and its role throughouth the history of Black American culture is discussed within the context of Eileen Southern...
vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...
perspective, which draws on a Marxist perspective, as it examines patterns of "political, economic, social, and cultural organizat...
2005). Black holes are thought to have originated from the collapse of very large stars, but it is also hypothesized that mini bla...
exhibit the most extreme misogynistic trends. Girls are often scantily clad, and dance provocatively. They are often dubbed "hoes"...
separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted by Du Bois 24). This "c...