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experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

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...

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

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

in the United States again is sometimes attributable to Adams. Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, who was president at the time,...

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

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