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

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

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

inadmissible if a case is already being handled by a state with jurisdiction, unless it is deemed that the state in question is "g...

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

patriarchal, this may be argued as reflecting in the policies, specifically in the health policies that concerns a womans health. ...

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

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

to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the e...

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...

Washington and Realistic Hope For many individuals it is one thing to have ideals and to struggle for those ideals their entire l...

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...