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African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

Phillis Wheatley

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

Efficacy of Tutoring Programs & Math

education students within inclusive classrooms are peer tutoring and content mastery labs. The purpose of the following proposed r...

African American Culture and Child Rearing

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Lewis, Marshall and Tolliver: African American Artists

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

Article Analysis: Diversity

a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...

The Plight of African Americans in the United States

people..." (p.88). It is an idea that makes sense. There are differences of opinion between people and a hatred festers. Similar t...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

Importance of Black History Month for African American Youth

of the white people. The history focuses on how the nation was founded, the Civil War, how the Depression affected people, the Wor...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

The Roosevelt Administration and the Black Cabinet

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

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...

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. ...

From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

African American Education Throughout History

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

Thinking Big with Dr. Ben Carson

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

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...

Identity and African American Males in the Rural South

will result in them believing it. Similarly, keeping African-Americans in the degrading conditions of slavery has instilled a bel...

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...