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Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

American Diversity

and economic issues must be considered along with positions of ethnic and religious minorities as well as issues that go to enviro...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Aspects of European and American History

This paper presents discussion of five issues that pertain to European and American history, such as the factors that compelled Eu...

U.S. Race Relations and Sports

his firm resolution until his lifes end (Faulkner, 1995). The turning point in Robinsons life was when his mother uprooted him an...

Films Chinatown and Raisin in the Sun and Ethnicity

element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

American Women, Blacks, and Discrimination

of discrimination, the following thesis will be investigated: Numerous factors affect the level of discrimination...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

Kingdom and Sowell's Views on America

into two very obviously distinct groups. These groups of citizens may not have the same political party affiliation or the same ec...