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Tatum, Racial Issues

voices of whites, blacks and Asians and how they voice their fears. For example, Tatum quote Christine Sleeter, a white woman and ...

Should Malcolm X Be Featured on a US Postage Stamp?

not have presided over mass murder, his rhetoric caused considerable damage to the Jewish people (Elder). As a member of the radi...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

Reflection on Race in America

looking at cultural differences (Perry, Steele and Hilliard 58). During the 1980s, cultural difference theory was criticized and ...

Social Resistance

educating his readership as to the importance of racial harmony. Gaines (1992) primary objective in this story is to point ...

The Effect of TV Violence on Young People

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

Harlem Renaissance

on the east and Convent Avenue on the west" ("Songs of the soul" SR1). During the 1920s, a "star-studded group of poet, writer, mu...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

Dyson: Come Hell or High Water

looks at it in a certain way-the way the media wants them to perceive it. In this case, the media has used this device to portray ...

White Privilege and Black Kids

womens disadvantages so vigorously that any discussion of the phenomenon has taken on the aspect of a social taboo (McIntosh, 1988...

Disproportionality In Special Education

this category (EMSTAC, Intro, 2007). Either overrepresentation or underrepresentation is a problem because it suggests the diagn...

Antwone Fisher and Menace II Society

there is a certain allure to the way in which both Caine and O-Dog are portrayed. Cinema has since its inception been one of the...

Beverly Daniel Tatum: “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”

to become part of black culture, she had to be able to get away from the dominant white culture entirely. This wasnt possible in a...

1940s Black Cinema

fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...

What if the Black Plague Never Happened

came a famine as rains destroyed many crops and people began to die. This author notes that people even turned to cannibalism at t...

How Did the New Left Lead to the Rise of the New Right?

support one another, and as a result, there was great social change. Perhaps the greatest success of the New Left was the Brown v....

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?

race, Snyder refers to Batson v. Kentucky, a case in 1986 that would not allow the practice of eliminating jurors due to race ("Co...

The Little Rock Nine

Linda Brown who had to walk a great distance to arrive at the black school to which she was assigned. What came from the Supreme C...

The Motivation for Autobiography

is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men. There is another fact: Black men want to prove to white men, at a...

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...

The Roosevelt Administration and the Black Cabinet

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

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

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

Nan Goldin Exhibit At The Matthew Marks Gallery: General Review

the subjects soul in order answer the call of meaning so critical to the postmodern movement. The photography unarguably becomes ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

The Souls of Black Folk

work one can gain a sense of this condition: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking ...

The Black Angel

Anne Dodge memorial, 2007). But his works, like all great art, take on a life of their own that perhaps goes beyond what was reque...

Alienation in "The Scarlet Letter"

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

Black Barbers in the United States

This is extremely condescending, not to say insulting, but black barbers were quick to see that it could work to their advantage. ...