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The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

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...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

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

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 ...

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...

Growth of Asia Versus Latin American and African Growth

or mismanaged economically, such as was the case in Eastern Europe when it suffered under communist regimes, this process is frust...

Analysis of African American Civil Rights and Women's Equal Rights Struggles

ready to go in order to defend their inherent rights as human beings. That particular incident was not the first encounter Parks ...

Post-Reconstruction, African American Leaders

This essay begins by describing the stance of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Marcus Garvey on the...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

African Americans, Poverty, and the War on Drugs

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the criminal justice system in regards to multicultural problems. This paper includes the s...

African American Diabetes and Inner City

This paper suggests educational and community outreach projects that would help improve nutrition and level of activity among this...

African American Subjugation and Slavery

This research paper offers an overview of the fundamental causes that motivated the implementation of slavery in the American colo...

Early 20th Century Niagara African American Civil Rights Movement

owners. Du Bois understood that blacks needed to secure a greater foothold in American labor and industry, but there was far more...

HIV and African Americans

This research paper offers an overview of the significance of HIV/AIDS within the black American community. The discussion focuses...

The Civil War and Contributions of African American Soldiers

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

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...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

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...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Racism

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

England and African Immigration

even two decades ago and London has changed completely. It is a challenge for both immigrants and natives to accommodate each othe...

Pan Africanism and 2 Visions

the Caribbean thought of themselves as members of a single "Negro" race, of which W.E.B. DuBois wrote about (Appiah, 2002). During...

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....

African Women and their Changing Roles

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

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 ...