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African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Chestnutt skilfully exposes the irony of these attitudes through the interaction between the various family members, where the dis...

Theories on Eugenics and Black Children

and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Verm...

Do Blacks Receive Harsher Criminal Sentences?

In theory, when a crime is committed in the US and a...

Four Dissertations on Interdisciplinary Social Work

as expressed through collaborative efforts, that seemed to exert the greatest benefit to the acquisition of communicative behavior...

Impact of the Black Plague on Chivalry, Feudalism

died within a span of just 18 months.7 The following examination of literature focuses on how the Black Plague affected feudal soc...

Social Work and Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development Model

1972). The rest of the stages, and their specific crisis, are as follows: the preschooler stage (years 3-5)-- initiative v. guilt;...

Standard English and Black English Compared

steeped deeply in the Niger and Congo regions, and represented the folklore, cultures and traditions of these areas (Brown, 2002; ...

Songs of the Black Experience

a distinctly more female approach, as it openly deals with gender issues and missing womanhood. The author, herself, once remarke...

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...

Lead Poisoning and Asthma

Joseph, Havstad, Ownby, Peterson, et al (2005) explore lead poisoning as it relates to asthma. These researchers explore the hypo...

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...

Walter and Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun

that the African American male is simply not given the same opportunities, or not as many opportunities, as the white man. This pl...

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 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....

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...

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

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...

Women: The Black Plague, the Renaissance and Reformation

feudal system. At the same time it also put the entire population of Westerners in a position where they truly questioned their fa...

The Black Plague: San Francisco and Honolulu

point is that even though Chinatown was seen as a horrible place, filthy and not needed or desired by many people in Honolulu, the...

The Black Plague: The Roman Empire and Europe

truly a mystery to them, and thus incredibly frightening. Both cultures, or time periods, were possessed of cultures that were v...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

1940s Black Cinema

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