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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 ...

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...

Racism and African Americans

inequity was often used by White Southerners as support for pro-slavery arguments (Jackson 2). Affirmative action was created in...

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...

Elementary Schools and the Necessity for African American Teachers

In five pages this essay discusses why African American teachers are needed to serve as role models in elementary schools. Eight ...

Comparing American and African Children

In six pages children in America and children in Africa are examined in this comparative analysis. Five sources are cited in the ...

African American Women College Graduates and Marriage

In seven pages this research paper discusses the decline in African American marriage rates in a consideration of the role played ...

Films and African American Gangsters Past and Present

In a paper consisting of eight pages the African American gangster and gangs depicted in Boyz 'N the Hood and Hoodlum are contrast...

Professional Sports Management and Barriers African Americans Face

In a paper consisting of fifteen pages the realm of professional sports management is considered within the context of the barrier...

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...

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...

African American Lecturer Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Works

In nine pages Frances E.W. Harper's amazing life as a reformer and lecturer are considered within the context of her recently surf...

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...

South Carolina and the African American Migration of 1916 and 1919

In fifteen pages this research paper examines South Carolina in a consideration of the impact of the Northern migration of souther...

African American Families, Noncustodial Fathers and Social Work Strategies

In twelve pages this paper examines the all too common scenario of African American families without custodial fathers in terms of...

Autobiographies of African Olaudah Equiano and American Benjamin Franklin

the letter pulls the reader into the familiar structure of the book, and creates the continued expectation of familiar concepts, n...

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...

Ecocriticism and Post-Colonialism

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

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...

African Americans in the Legal Profession

to increase number of African American lawyers and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is sli...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Coverage of African American Male Celebrities

relatively minor misunderstanding that in the context of his rough neighborhood might have happened to anyone else. Because it is ...

African American Music

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

Teacher Training and African American Males

deeper understanding of their capabilities and strengths, as well as the obstacles that they typically face in terms of background...

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...