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

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

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

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

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

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

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

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

was not really prepared to deal with this influx of people who needed to be paid for work. They were suddenly in a society that di...

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...