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dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...
"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...
of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...
Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...
individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...
trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...
in procedural variation. In this experiment, the researchers recruited 137 college students to listen to a tape of contemporary ja...
in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...
ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...
and, in fact, to some degree is still in place even today. Although the Civil War freed slaves in the U.S., it did...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
part of U.S. history, it makes sense to delve somewhat deeper; to focus on the Black cowboy as well. An understanding of how the A...
student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...
going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...
a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...
these clubs provide "alternative sista [sister] spaces," which become significant locations for "literacy learning and literacy ac...
Introduces results of research about African American cowboys, past and present, who live in East Texas. There are 3 sources liste...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...
As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...
gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...
in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...
societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...
social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...
is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...
black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...
the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...
D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...
source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...