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African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

Black American Feminism

7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...

The Strengths of African American Families

7 pages ad 4 sources. This paper outlines the basic principles presented in Robert Bernard Hill's The Strengths of African Americ...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

Questions on Art History

narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...

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 ...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Apartheid and African American Art

In five pages this paper discusses the influence of apartheid on African American artists and their art and the compassionate corr...

Politics and Art

In five pages the ways in which political climate has always been reflected in art are examined and includes various cultural work...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

National Museum of African Art

this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...

African American Art and Cultural Expression

artist is photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson, who photographs the poverty and chaos confronting Blacks in America. These are exhi...

Period Art Describes After a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art II

Japanese, African, Roman, and Greek works of art are discussed in this reaction paper to a trip taken to the Metropolitan Museum o...

Galleries and Wings of a Trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Described V

An exhibit reaction paper of two pages considers the various African, Asian, Greek, and Roman wings and galleries of NYC's Metropo...

Influences of African American Art on Matisse and Picasso

in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

Social Conditions and the Body as Reflected in Art

Finleys name with "the chocolate smeared woman, famous for her performance piece, We Keep Our Victims Ready, when she smeared her ...

Art, Art Criticism, and Postmodern Culture

all embodied become the casualties of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composi...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Yinka Shonibare/A Flying Machine for Every Man, etc.

of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...