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African American Men and HIV

In twenty pages this paper examines the prevalence of HIV among the African American male population in a community outreach progr...

More Than a Century and a Half of Contributions by Women to the Labor Movement

This paper considers how since the nineteenth century women have contributed to the labor movement and the workforce with African ...

Film Depiction of African Americans

Horne and Louis Armstrong. Of course, famous tap dancing acts were featured in some films of the day. There was a well known musi...

African Americans and WWI

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

Civil Rights Movement and the Role of African American Women

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

African American Education and Booker T. Washington

In six pages the role of Booker T. Washington as teacher to his African American people is discussed. Five sources are cited in t...

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

The Social Role of Women and Auguste Comte

the basis for an advanced society" (p. 229). She quotes from Comtes Cours de philosophie positive (published in 1855) and explains...

Hitler's Germany and the Jim Crow South/Similarities in Regards to Racism

some instances, for example, it refers to the social changes which when a lesser developed country (a preindustrial society in som...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

Experiences of Immigrants

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the immigrant experiences of the Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and African ...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Television Depictions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

An African Analysis American Pluralistic Society

Kofi Aprakus book "Outside Looking In: An African Perspective on American Pluralistic Society" offers an interesting view of what ...

America and the Role of the Nation of Islam

In seven pages this paper discusses the contemporary American role of the Nation of Islam in an overview that includes doctrines, ...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

African Women and their Changing Roles

people, the Khoena, were "irredeemable savages" while to "black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, sh...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

African-American and African Cultural Beliefs on Masculinity

This paper examines the differences in how the concept of masculinity is viewed among African-American and African men. This elev...

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...

Black Religion as Formed by Racism

individuals were members of St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church but, because of the fact they were African American, found them...

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

Racism from an Asian American Perspective

of racism, of course, are not limited to the U.S. History has proven, in fact, that multiethnic and multiracial societies in gener...

The Societal Rebuff of Anyone Different

Homosexuals and Muslims in Contemporary Society The author of this paper considers the importance of the choice of words in repor...