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Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Black Women Overcoming Oppression

Ultimately, "It is through their friendships, their love, their shared oppression... that they collectively gain the strength to s...

Black, Professional & Female

Other prevalent themes that emerged were the isolation that black women experience while working in white-dominated organizations ...

Comparing Works by Richard Wright and Jo Ann G. Robinson

In five pages this research paper examines these authors' refusal to accept African American second class citizenship in a segrega...

'Black Woman' by Leopold Senghor

reality that the poem depicts is, therefore, purely African. It speaks of a passionate attachment to the land that works through t...

Civil Rights Movement and African American Women's Role

The civil rights movement is examined in an analysis of the roles black women played in this paper consisting of five pages. Seve...

1940s' Unemployment in America

Unemployment in America during this time period particularly as it impacted women and blacks with the return of US soldiers is dis...

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...

Political Correctness and Prejudice in the Works of Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines whether or not Mark Twain prejudicially portrayed Indians, Jews, blacks, and women in his writin...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

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....

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...

Black American Women and Interlocking Oppression

words, when it comes to oppression, people are not necessarily held back due only to their gender, or their color, but a combinati...

The Value of Women's Studies

women as opposed to men. Women it seems are on the whole more interested in legislation involving the family and such issues as e...

Business Plan for Krista's Clothing

video rental stores. Conventional wisdom says that in starting a new business, it is necessary to find something new that has at ...

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...

Black Elk's and Mother Jones' Social Views

In five pages this paper discusses the social views of Wallace Black Elk, Nicholas Black Elk, and Marry Harris 'Mother' Jones. Fi...

Antislavery: Slave Narratives And Abolitionists

no uncertain terms gave all people unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? The American Di...

Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Europe and the Black Death

This paper consists of six pages and examines the Black Plague or Black Death that had a catastrophic impact upon 14th century Eur...

The Black Community in the Works of Richard Wright

This 13 page paper explores the way Richard Wright describes the black community in his works Native Son and Black Boy. The writer...

The Vision of Black Elk

In five pages John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks is discussed in terms of the ways in which Black Elk succeed in increasing public a...

Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phillis Wheatley comparing the Work of the Two Authors

Although Paul Laurence Dunbar was born nearly a century after Wheatley's death, the two authors share common traits other than the...