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Overview of The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley

questing spirit presented throughout the book no matter what the name of the persona. The young life of Malcolm Little is a tragi...

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...

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...

Influence of the Black Church on America and Civil Rights

In seven pages this paper examines the influence the Black Church as exerted on the United States and on the civil rights movement...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Second World War Newsreels

In five pages the Second World War's black and white newsreels are examined in terms of their historical importance and also discu...

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...

Racism and Culture Defined in 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

to keep at least a semblance of their culture together. In fact, there has been somewhat of a movement to restore black culture in...

Racism as Viewed by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Racism as presented in the Atlantic Compromise address of Booker T. Washington and The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is co...

Hunted or Haunted Protagonists in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...

African American Women Playwrights

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

Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice

In five pages this paper analyzes Eldridge Cleaver's autobiography in terms of how it portrays 1960s' 'Black Power.' Five sourc...

Poe, Hawthorne, Irving and Romanticism Considering Romanticism in Literature By Examining Stories By Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

Poetic Concepts of Writer Maya Angelou

Angelou addresses the concept of oppression among the black race, coming forth to stand as a twentieth century hero to her heritag...

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...

Human Nature as Defined by Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper compares Frederick Douglass's definition of human nature with that of the Black Codes, Jefferson Davis, a...

Being Black in the US and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Confessions of Nat Turner

These texts are contrasted and compared in an assessment of what being black in the US means in five pages. Two sources are cited...

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...

Reality and Slave Narratives

when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

Overview of the Black Panther Movement

now -- instead of young Blacks singing, We Shall Overcome new images of Black militants were being shown on television -- replete ...

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Collins

In a paper consisting of five pages Patricia Collins' unique black feminist perspective is considered within the context of her bo...

Early Twentieth Century Black Political Groups

In six pages the Garvey movement, NUL, NAACP, and the Communist Party in terms of how each groupu attempted to improve the positio...