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A Critique of Lorraine Hansberry's, A Raisin in the Sun

This is met with adversity, in the person of Karl Lindner, who "represents white supremacy and all that is entailed in this mental...

African American Religion and How It Originated

west coast of Africa, but even within this area religious traditions varied greatly" (African-American Religion in the Nineteenth ...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

Ecocriticism and Post-Colonialism

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

How Ralph Ellison’s Life Affected His Writing

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African-American Population of Houston, Texas

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

Progression of African Americans Since 1865

future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

How Race Shapes Fashion Design in New York City

a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...

The Individual and Societal Impacts of the Civil War

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

African American Music

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

Globalization's Social and Economic Implications

and speculative finance. Globalization provides a view of the world in which the interests of the powerful are defined as necessit...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Freedmen

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

World War I Journal

This essay takes the form of journal entries that an African American soldiers might have written during World War I. Other issue...

Health Assessment: Black Male with Hypertension

This research paper pertains to a 40-year-old African American male who has hypertension. Ten pages in length, eight sources are c...

African Americans and Health Disparities

This research paper pertains to health disparities that are evident among African Americans and then focuses specifically on type...

Equal Rights for African Americans

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the fight post Civil War for African American equal rights. This paper includes the formati...

Heart Disease and African Americans

This research paper focuses on Boynton Beach, Florida and discusses the importance of controlling high blood pressure among its Af...

Health Issues, African Americans

This research paper consists of the text from a PowerPoint project, aasboyn.pptx, which includes 10 slides. This projects concerns...

Childhood Asthma and African American Children

This research paper offers an overview of childhood asthma, which forces specifically on its incidence and prevalence among Africa...