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Race Matters According to Cornel West

influential black writers of contemporary times. West views white America as an oppressor of black America, an oppressor ...

Black Boy by Richard Wright and History

society, this history, into which he was born, stating "This was the culture from which i sprang. This was the terror from which I...

James H. Cone's Teachings in A Black Theology of Liberation

would suggest that the God of the wealthy is quite different from the God of those embraced by the throws of poverty. In impartin...

Racism Experiences in Post World War II Great Britain and the Black Community's Responses

black people choosing to leave the country. Post-War Race Relations The post-war immigration in the late 1940s and 1950s in...

Ar'n't I a Woman? and White and Enslaved Women

womanhood was physically weak and dependent on a man for support. African women, however, were judged to be strong enough to earn ...

Crossing Racial Lines in Relationships

even passive bigotry totally unacceptable to anyone who isnt a kind of a professed Neanderthal. Its changed the sexual culture com...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

Ten Years After the Second World War, Human Endurance and Human Cruelty

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

U.S. Blacks and the Historic Effects of Social Stratification

the homelands of the Native Americans. Similar occurrences have occurred all over the world between what Marger (52) chooses to c...

Media Representation of Black Professional Athletes

openly voicing their dislike for the player. Some writers even speculated that a new Bonds record would only benefit the game beca...

Literature about the Blues and Jazz

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

Antimenes Amphora Vase and Herakles Fighting the Nemeian Lion

the storing of provisions. Those found abundantly under the sea in ancient shipwrecks have a narrow neck and were not designed to ...

Perspective and Color in Gary Ross' Film Pleasantville

swell. Then, he starts to notice that the books dont have words, the basketball team always wins their games, and no one questions...

European Society and Black Death

In six pages black death or bubonic plague is considered in terms of epidemiology and the societal effects Europe suffered as a re...

Reviewing A Long Kiss Goodnight Film

In six pages the 1996 film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Shane Black and costarring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson is di...

Marijuana and the Advantages of Legalization

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses how legalizing marijuana would carry with it the advantages of crime reduction, pri...

Elder's Play Ceremonies of Dark Old Men

In a paper consisting of seven pages this 1969 play about a black family that offers hope despite social decline is examined. Fiv...

August Wilson's Race Reversal of Romeo and Juliet

work seems to mirror much of his own life struggles, as well as his journey to accepting himself and, perhaps, his father who aban...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

Black Holes and Astronomical Research

exclusion principle acting on its electrons (in white dwarfs) or nucleons (in neutron stars)" (Dolan 1079). Yet, when "No equilibr...

A Review of Monster

A 5 page discussion of the novel by Walter Dean Myers. This book recaps the problems encountered by a sixteen year old black yout...

An Analysis of Two Hawthorne Stories

This paper analyzes two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, and The Minister's Black Veil. This five page ...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Zora Neale Hurston's and Langston Hughes' Black Perspectives

leave him. Finally, Janie shares that when her grandmother passes away she seeks her own freedom and runs away from Logan. Many do...

Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Gifted Education Programs and Students

In five pages this paper examines students and gifted education programs in a consideration of disproportionate representation of ...

Ethnic and Racial Construction Of 'Caribbeanness'

In ten pages the texts I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys are referred to in a disc...

African American Women Playwrights

In five pages the ways in which black female playwrights confront sexist behaviors and conventional stereotypes in their female ch...

Acculturation as Portrayed in Bread Givers and Black Elk Speaks

A 5 page assessment of the factor of acculturation as it influences these two classic books. Black Elk Speaks, translated by John...