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Essays 1981 - 2010

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

African Epic Sundiata

However, supernatural strength is indicated when he finally does stand. Sundiata instructed that a heavy iron rod should be brough...

Rehabilitation Setting and Collaborative Nursing

others, often in an intellectual focus. Cultural collaboration raises the value of this effort to that of individuals of one cult...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

1960s' African American Political Activism

as H. Rap Brown in his political Autobiography "Die Nigger Die!", the speeches and writings of Malcolm X which included his 1964 s...

Issues in Ethnomusicology, Agawu and McClary

(Agawu, 1992, p. 246). At this point, Agawu states that the purpose of his essay is to critique ethnomusicology writing that has f...

Jazz History, African Influences

This research paper offers a discussion of literature pertaining to the early history of jazz and the African influences that play...

The Influence of Music on Trahce in African Tradition Religions

The writer presents an examination of the role music plays in trance. The paper looks at both shamanic and possession trance, the ...

AFRICAN AMERICAN COWBOYS IN EAST TEXAS

Introduces results of research about African American cowboys, past and present, who live in East Texas. There are 3 sources liste...

17th Century World History

Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...

Southern and South African: Power of Christian Music

is "actually the confidence in the inner, hidden Holy Spirit inside of themselves as divine creations" (Ungureanu-Pamfi, 2011). Th...

"Phenomenal Women," Article Analysis

these clubs provide "alternative sista [sister] spaces," which become significant locations for "literacy learning and literacy ac...

American Foreign Policy/Cohen and Walt

of marginal communities" have altered, "at least publicly," so that they now focus on "inclusion and legitimization" of those memb...

Overview of a Criminal Justice Study on Marijuana Use

This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...

African Literature and the Importance of Generational Values

are eradicated by the arrival of Christian missionaries (Achebe 1994). Chimamanda Adichies "The Purple Hibiscus" tells a story si...

Hate Crimes Against African Americans

a "universal human emotion," which consists of "extreme rejection of another person" (Broyles, 2009, p. 4). A hate crime refers to...

South African History/The Gold Industry

"poor sanitation and hygiene," the homes of Africans, who had been confined to slums by segregationist law, were perceived as a "...

Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...

African American Student Retention: Strategies for Improvement

of 800 four-year public, four-year private, and community colleges conducted by Noel-Levitz revealed that "African American studen...

The Kebra Negast and the Sundiata

oral tradition, which makes the tales uniquely alive and constantly changing. This paper briefly compares two such epics, the Sund...

Constitutional Amendments Affect on African Americans

No constitution is perfect, but the beauty of it is that it is always changing as the countrys needs change. Instead of scrapping ...

A Proposed Program on Hypertension

and gender groups between 1999 and 2004, in African American women this incidence of hypertension increased by 14 percent (Taylor,...

Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison and the Use of Linguistics

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Strategies in South Africa

case in South Africa. There is ongoing civil unrest, high rates of crime, one of the highest rates of AIDS in the world, rigid lab...

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

Women and Slavery

United States that awaited many of them was certainly devastating and destructive, it may well have offered some more opportunitie...

Annotated Bibliography on Global Poverty

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...

3 African American Authors on Class and Race in the U.S.

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

Africa and Promoting the Immunization of Children

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...