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Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

'On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored' by Marita Bonner and 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' by Zora Neale Hurston

what governs their overall behavior. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons ...

Louisiana Slavery

the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...

The Evolution of Black American English

a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...

Anti Abortion's Normative Argument

all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...

US Black Muslim History

West Africa were Muslims and some black Muslims contend that "Islam is part of the genetic memory of blacks" (1996, p.67). Yet, th...

July 1863 NY Draft Riots

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

Overview of Multicultural Theater

nature - the very truth of human nature - which is why it is often painful to accept. Indeed, Hansberrys work represents all that...

Clarke County, Georgia's Lynching

his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wi...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Themes of Retribution and Sin

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education

The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...

Coca Cola's Capital Structure

short-term loan. The most recent long-term financing decision was in 2003, when the company issued debt in the form of "lon...

Community Nursing Issue Regarding HIV in Black Males and 2010 Objectives

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Black English in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

Struggle for Black Equality from the Reconstruction to the Present Time

the same way livestock was cared for, consequently they even lacked the experience to care for their most basic of needs (McGuire ...

Religious Extremist Movements

that are more passive and believe that "God will punish" or "evil will be punished" much less threatening than those that say "God...

Malcolm X and Richard Wright

of his entire life was dedicated to helping the race. Wright was a man simply seeking his own identity and he seemed to have no re...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Today's Sitcoms and All in the Family

world around them, no matter how distasteful. In this particular show race was a very powerful issue and many may argue that th...

Overview of the Armenians

Armenian people preferred to ignore what happened to them decades ago since they now live in the United States. But the author tra...

An Adolescent Case Study of a Teenage Black Male

best. The purpose of this paper is to assess the overall psychological functioning and the severity of the problems confron...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

European Economy and the Black Death

it in some places before the Black Death or the wars suggests that the economic system itself was at fault" (Rempel). By the time ...

Pacific Northwest Immigration of Blacks and History Lessons

South in the United States. Although neither Washington, Oregon, nor British Columbia were considered true advocates of slavery, ...

History and Immigration of Blacks to the Pacific Northwest

"the annual level of legal immigration rose from around 300,000 to nearly one million....approximately 83 percent came...

Overview of the Black Plague

disease he was now apparently immune to. It is interesting and informative to note that Tuchman and Defoes work exist in very d...

Examination of Black Holes

faith than on facts that can be observed and verified (Cowen 17). What exactly is a black hole? It isnt anything that can be see...