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The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Black Community of Memphis, Freedman's Bank and the Essay 'Plans Dat Comed from God' by Armstead Robinson

for opening accounts that took into consideration how to disburse the assets of a deceased depositor to that individuals heirs (Ro...

Freedom Rides and African American History

The idea for forcing such integration was still alive but did not take any real concrete action until the 1960s when John F....

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Exporting Computers to Kenya

both computer systems and the Internet on the rise. Though South Africa is considered the "leader" in such a field, Kenya is defin...

Profiling Booker T. Washington

Washington and Realistic Hope For many individuals it is one thing to have ideals and to struggle for those ideals their entire l...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Depiction of Women in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

realities that Celie is born into and must grow up with. She is poor and must essentially raise children that are not hers, give u...

African American Poverty Causes

"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...

Latin America and Female Travelers During the Nineteenth Century

gender, class and historical events, and few women were given the opportunity to travel ... Traveling, for women, has been forever...

College Enrollment for a Black American Student

1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the e...

Comparing the Educational Philosophies of Washington and Du Bois

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

Still Burning Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

Dakota and Uptown Brands of R.J. Reynolds and Ethics

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

Betty's Case and Cognitive Therapy

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

Works of Angelina Grimke and Garland Anderson Compared and Contrasted

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

Perspective on Slavery

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

U.S. Era of Free Banking

when the bankers there allegedly established free banks in hard-to-reach locations - locations "where the wildcats roamed" (Dwyer,...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Issues Pertaining to the African American Experience

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

'Black English' in an English Dialect Study

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Lost Identity and Culture as a Result of the Slave Trade

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

Literature and Dual African American Worlds

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

Africana Studies and Diaspora

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

Nineteenth Century America

the 19th century that lead us to argue that it was isolationist we look at some of the significant historical events from that tim...

African American Females and Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

African American Poetry and Fiction Analysis

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...