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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 ...

William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington on Race

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...

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...

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...

People's History

In five pages history as seen through the eyes of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and factory workers is glimpsed in a...

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...

Humanity and the Origin of Racial Prejudice

In nine pages this paper considers where prejudice among the races originated and compares the bias that Asian Americans and Afric...

Minority Groups and Education

In twenty five pages this paper considers how minority groups especially Native Americans and African Americans have been denied a...

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

In five pages this book is considered in terms of the slave trade and the African Americans' factual and historical accounts conta...

Northwest China's Unique Hui Muslim Culture

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the Chinese Hui Muslims with the US Native American and African American cultures...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Trespassing My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege by Gwendolyn M. Parker

been one of the smartest children in a class, the teachers now refused to acknowledge her raised hand in answer to one of their qu...

The Relationship of African-American Men to Conflict Theory

The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Black Experience Before and After the American Civil War

6 pages and 5 sources. This paper outlines the experiences of Black Americans before and after 1865, relating to the changes that...

Irvin Yalom and Group Therapy

In 5 pages group therapy is essentially seen through the eyes of renowned psychotherapist Irvin Yalom. There are 2 sources cited ...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

U.S. Black Political Power

grouped under the loose heading of "Jim Crow," not only forbade blacks from voting, but also segregated them from white citizens i...

Venice and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper considers the similarities between Irvin Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. ...

Article Summaries on Cosmology and Black Holes

In five pages two articles about cosmology and black holes are reviewed....

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Post Civil Rights Movement and Black Leadership

In a paper that consists of three pages the history of the U.S. black civil rights movement is examined in terms of mainstream soc...

Blacks in South Africa After the Collapse of Apartheid

In an essay composed of two pages the sociopolitical conditions that existed for South African blacks after apartheid are discusse...

African American General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

In ten pages the many achievements of this celebrated U.S. general are discussed with his black military contributions also examin...

White and Black Culture in Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's book Beloved exposes the way in which white culture dictates black identity....

Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how black women's experiences are captured in Naylor's book Women of Brewster Plac...

Fatherhood in Master Harold . . . and the Boys by Athol Fugard

In a paper consisting of five pages the representation of fatherhood in the play by the South African playwright focuses upon a co...