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As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

In eight pages this research paper considers the persona that ensnared late 19th century African American poet Paul Laurence Dunba...

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

In eight pages the plight of the African Americans, Latinos, and Asians in terms of assimilation and immigration are considered. ...

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...

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

In two pages this paper discusses the themes of self identity and Black culture as they pertain to African American men as reflect...

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these literary works regarding the lasting impressions of the slave experience up...

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

were taught to value honor, education, equality, and the importance of telling the truth. Parks childhood instilled in him a fierc...

This 5 page paper discusses the struggles African-Americans face as they move from a rural setting to an urban one, as portrayed i...