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Comparing and Contrasting Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington

The writer compares and contrasts the lives and work of Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington, and the prejudice they faced beca...

Writings of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper focuses mostly on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in a consideration of the African American ...

2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

Origins of Blues Music

society (Nogueira; Bours). The considerable creativity of these people was channeled solely into outlets such as the chant, danc...

Langston Hughes' Plays

In six pages this paper examines how the African American experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' plays Mulatto and Don't ...

Fences by August Wilson 2

Troy and his son Cory. August Wilson establishes an impression of the 53-year-old Troy Maxson early in Act I, writing that he ...

Inner City and Blacks Crimes

In a paper consisting of seven pages inner city incidences of high crime among African American adolescents are discussed in terms...

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

Im still struggling with any course material that is remotely mathematical. As always, my loves are history, philosophy and this s...

Racial Misconceptions and Educational Imperatives

This in-depth research paper looks at how racial stereotypes and misconceptions, along with changes in arrest rates can affect the...

Race and Schizophrenia Diagnosis

In ten pages this paper examines the incidences of mistaken African American schizophrenia diagnoses. Ten sources are cited in th...

An Analysis of the Film, Sankosa

This paper examines the relevance of the film, Sankosa, and others like it that focus on African-Americans holding onto their heri...

Two Nations Black and White by Andrew Hacker

This paper consisting of five pages considers the author's thesis on what being an African American means in terms of socioeconomi...

Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Work II

In nine pages this research paper considers this African American novelist, poet, and lecturer in terms of her life and work with ...

Life and Contributions of Ida B. Wells

In five pages this paper considers the life and activism of Ida B. Wells on behalf of African American oppression. Six sources ar...

The Life, Works and Philosophy of Alice Walker

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

Is It Possible to Achieve an Africana Philosophy?

In five pages this essay examines whether or not the widespread scattering of African Americans throughout the world makes it poss...

'Passing' and the Harlem Renaissance

hiding ones true race be significant? Two points must be made in order to answer this question. First, the literature of the Harl...

An Affirmative Action Overview

In eleven pages affirmative action's history is examined along with the arguments that have long surrounded this programs and some...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Biography of George Washington Carver

In eight pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of African American scientist George Washington Carver. Eight s...

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry

scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there ...

Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

African Slave Trade and the Wait That Continues for Racial Equality

In six pages this paper discusses the impact of the African slave trade upon the African people who still continue to wait for rac...

African Women and their Changing Roles

people, the Khoena, were "irredeemable savages" while to "black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, sh...

In My Father's House by Anthony Appiah

traveler would have felt that there were "profoundly different impulses, ideas and forms of life" (174). In short, Appiah makes ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Social and Political Theory

In 9 pages this paper discusses Achebe's novel as it relates to African social and political theory considered in The Dual Mandate...

Questions about the African Continent

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper relates the answers to some specific questions about the African contintent, including the infl...

African Slave Trade and its Impact

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

The Difference between Perceived and Real Cultural Understanding

Using a scenario provided by the student where an Australian teacher is tutoring a South African student in a higher education set...