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Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Works of Angelina Grimke and Garland Anderson Compared and Contrasted

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

Article on Conflict in Classroom, a Critique

stations. They practiced karate moves on the new carpets. Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as ...

African American Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Styles of Parenting

about the effect of such statistics on their parenting style, especially in the presence of poverty as a contributing factor. The ...

Treatment Plan for an African American Woman Suffering from Alcoholism and PTSD

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

Native Americans and Africans Compared

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

Coexisting Disorders and Recommended Treatment

well, and is defined as a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing a life-threatening event such...

African Americans and Homicides

to black versus white homicide victims: 1) Young black males stand a five-to-ten times greater risk of dying by homicide than thei...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

African American Social Contributions of bell hooks, Alice Walkler, and Betty Friedan

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

Case Study Analysis of Business Racial Quotas

race and seniority. When the program began, thirteen workers in all were chosen that were equivalent to six white employees and ...

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...

The Post Civil War South

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

A Visit to the San Diego Zoo

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

African Americans and the Differing Views of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

In eight pages this paper examines whether the political activism espoused by Du Bois or the conciliatory model of Washington were...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Comparative Analysis of August Wilson's Play Fences and Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

American Economy and Racism

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

"Colored People": The History of the Term

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

Theology and Gospel Preaching in the African American Church

by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...

Debating W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

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...

History and Contemporary Issues of African Americans

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

African American Teens and the Psychological Impact of Pregnancy

makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...

Comparing African Americans of Today with Those in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...