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Power in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In five pages the three power wielding groups of the desire for emancipation for women, the false witchcraft accusations by girls,...

Civil War to Present Day Black Experience

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

Black Noise by Tricia Rose

or in any number of ways that reflect the current concerns of black male youth. Female rappers, on the other hand, tell stories fr...

Blacks in Gone With the Wind and The Jazz Singer

mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Bronte's Jane Eyre and Female Emancipation

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

Myne Own Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes

The writer discusses the book Myne Own Ground by Breen and Innes, which describes the little known communities of free black who l...

Early American History

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Three Authors on Nonconformity

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

Knowledge, Domination, and Black Feminism

The impact of increasing knowledge on black women resisting domination are considered in this examination of evolving black femini...

Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Women's Emancipation and the Department Store's Impact

Paris runways are rather elitist and desirable, the models are near starvation and they represent a new female ideal. Fashion to ...

Alexander II and Serf Emancipation

did not free the serfs for such reasons. It was reasoned that the landowner after all did not own the serf and this was in contras...

Race and the Plays of August Wilson

focus of the story is also not necessarily on making music, but rather on the segregated and isolated and oppressed position these...

Legacy and Impact of Earl G. Graves

In five pages the Black Enterprise Magazine founder Earl G. Graves is celebrated in terms of his life, legacy, and profound busine...

Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

1962's Commonwealth Immigrants Act of England

understand all sides of this debate in order to clearly understand the impact of this policy on the lives of both those in Britain...

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...

John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me and the Treatment of Blacks by Whites

to the color of anyones skin due to the fact that he had worked, as a medic, with so many different skin types and cultures that b...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...