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

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

They find escape in the medias presentation of the celebrities and it seems that in times of political and global chaos they want ...

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...