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African American Student Retention and Structured Interviews

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at qualitative research. Structured interviews are used to assess the major causes of m...

An African Analysis American Pluralistic Society

Kofi Aprakus book "Outside Looking In: An African Perspective on American Pluralistic Society" offers an interesting view of what ...

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...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

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

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 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 ...

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

Review of "African American Mothers' Views of Their Infants' Language Development and Language-Learning Environment"

of expecting there to be great differences between cultures within the US as well. The authors use sources from the 1970s and 198...

Influences of African American Art on Matisse and Picasso

in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...

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...

16 Year Old African American Teen Psychological Assessment

the mother was not abusive she was continuously accused by Thompson of "bringing up things about the past" and constantly excited ...

Substance Abuse and Multicultural Counseling of Hispanics and African Americans

information. 2. Prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse within the group. 3. High risk, high need populations within the ...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal in Slavery by Nat Huggins

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...

African American Life of Frederick Douglass

by and watch what he had worked for his whole life dissipate in front of his eyes. Douglass was not the typical African...

Caucasians and African Americans Communication Differences

however. Everyday functions of business are intimately tied to communication (Pincus PG, Gaplin PG). Communication is th...

Lalita Tademy's Cane River and 4 Generations of African American Women

to fancy or given to unrealistic dreams. She was a down to earth and rational woman. In regards to the name, "Elisabeth merely sai...

A Consideration of 'Three Negro Classics' in African American Literature

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal iIn Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

a primary component of the transformation to African-American status, Huggins delves deep into the historical and cultural foundat...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

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...

Broadcasting and African American Exclusion

manifestation of this discrimination in the media is really not that surprising. Marger (2000) in "Race and Ethnic Relation...

African American Women and Anorexia Nervosa

& Estes; 1996). Also, it was found that ethnically diverse individuals who do end up with eating disorders do so because they ha...

African American Author Lorene Cary's Atypical Success

of course, is a predominantly white school and only just before she arrived it was not only all white but it was all male. Cary w...

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...

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...

Domestic Violence and African Americans

to criminal activity, to substance abuse. These problems have both direct and indirect impacts on the family. A considerable bod...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Teacher Training and African American Males

deeper understanding of their capabilities and strengths, as well as the obstacles that they typically face in terms of background...

African Americans and Hypertension

p. 12). Additionally, many blacks believe the principal cause of hypertension to be stress, "resulting from being black, experienc...