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Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal in Slavery by Nat Huggins

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

African Americans, Poverty, and the War on Drugs

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the criminal justice system in regards to multicultural problems. This paper includes the s...

African American Diabetes and Inner City

This paper suggests educational and community outreach projects that would help improve nutrition and level of activity among this...

Post-Reconstruction, African American Leaders

This essay begins by describing the stance of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Marcus Garvey on the...

The Civil War and Contributions of African American Soldiers

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

Historic and Contemporary Prejudice Against Native Americans

This 5 page paper discusses how mainstream white culture has treated Native Americans as inferiors throughout much of our country'...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

African American Women and Anorexia Nervosa

& Estes; 1996). Also, it was found that ethnically diverse individuals who do end up with eating disorders do so because they ha...

Contemporary American Women and The Amish Women of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania

local movie theater. However, young Amish girls are not allowed to even think about dating until they reach age sixteen, and then...

Contemporary American City Development

and the turn of the nineteenth century, there would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that t...

Broadcasting and African American Exclusion

manifestation of this discrimination in the media is really not that surprising. Marger (2000) in "Race and Ethnic Relation...

African American Author Lorene Cary's Atypical Success

of course, is a predominantly white school and only just before she arrived it was not only all white but it was all male. Cary w...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal iIn Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

a primary component of the transformation to African-American status, Huggins delves deep into the historical and cultural foundat...

Tribal Societies and the Roles Played by Architects and Artists

the depiction of characters. In this case, the artists were employed to tell an accurate account of the daily rituals the leaders ...

16 Year Old African American Teen Psychological Assessment

the mother was not abusive she was continuously accused by Thompson of "bringing up things about the past" and constantly excited ...

Substance Abuse and Multicultural Counseling of Hispanics and African Americans

information. 2. Prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse within the group. 3. High risk, high need populations within the ...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

Gender Roles and Society

women have taken on more responsibility. There are many reasons for this lack of change on the part of the male species. For on...

Influences of African American Art on Matisse and Picasso

in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...

Experiences and Culture of Contemporary Latino Americans

deal of discrimination from the majority of citizens in the United States. One of the cultural groups which is meeting a great dea...

The Role of E-Zines in Society and Journalism

with the personality and distinctive approaches of Weblogs...Think of an e-zine as a periodical thats less commercial and more per...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

African American Student Retention and Structured Interviews

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at qualitative research. Structured interviews are used to assess the major causes of m...

Diabetes and African Americans/Epidemiology

interest and relevant population Diabetes mellitus is an umbrella term for a category of chronic metabolic conditions, which are ...

Comparing DuBois and Baldwin in Early African American Literature

of history. The text is certainly auto-biographical in nature, but it frequently delves into historical and sociological topics su...

Analysis of African American Civil Rights and Women's Equal Rights Struggles

ready to go in order to defend their inherent rights as human beings. That particular incident was not the first encounter Parks ...

Society of the Modern and Postmodern Eras and Media's Role

and otherwise -- and that rational planning, technology and social manipulation would "engineer the perfect society" (Veith, 1995)...