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Olaudah Equiano

his time. Another intriguing aspect of the story illustrates how Equiano was not born into slavery, but rather born into a free...

Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down A Story of Modern War

it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American ...

Ann Ferguson's Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

a child. Just as obvious, however, is the fact that we as a nation do not want or need children who have been brainwashed into th...

Social and Educational Differences Between Black and Caucasian Students

the "dominant culture" and the indigenous inhabitants of the countries which they invaded or the "subdominant cultures" who eventu...

Social Work and Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development Model

1972). The rest of the stages, and their specific crisis, are as follows: the preschooler stage (years 3-5)-- initiative v. guilt;...

Standard English and Black English Compared

steeped deeply in the Niger and Congo regions, and represented the folklore, cultures and traditions of these areas (Brown, 2002; ...

Theories on Eugenics and Black Children

and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Verm...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories and the Theme of Temptation

In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...

Race Relations, Slavery, and the U.S. Civil War

In twenty five pages this paper examines the slavery and race issues that culminated in the U.S. Civil War and examines the Jim Cr...

Africa and Nation State Curse

In five pages this paper discusses how the nation state has cursed Africa in a consideration of Basil Davidson's Black Man's Burde...

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

In ten pages this paper discusses Langston Hughes' 1930 novel debut and analyzes the author's use of speech to convey 'black humor...

Taste of Power by Elaine Brown

influenced the 1974 election victory of Jerry Brown for governor of California. However, in the process, Brown had to overcome vir...

'Makes Me Wanna Holler' by McCall and Academic Achievement

explains: " Two of my older brothers, Junnie and Dwight, went into the Army to get away (Billy left college after one year, but he...

Ibn Battuta and Mali Descriptions

he was child. He left home at the age of twenty one and in the year 1325 he would begin to satisfy his curiosities. He would jour...

July 1863 NY Draft Riots

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

Anti Abortion's Normative Argument

all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...

US Black Muslim History

West Africa were Muslims and some black Muslims contend that "Islam is part of the genetic memory of blacks" (1996, p.67). Yet, th...

Clarke County, Georgia's Lynching

his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wi...

Overview of Multicultural Theater

nature - the very truth of human nature - which is why it is often painful to accept. Indeed, Hansberrys work represents all that...

Works of Tennessee Williams and the Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is thematically portrayed in Tennessee Williams' short story 'Desire and the Blac...

The Struggle of Assimilation

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the struggles encountered by a Korean man and a black man in white community assimilation are exa...

Comparison of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

In a paper consisting of 7 pages the poems in these two works are compared and include variations of 'Little Girl Lost' and 'The C...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Life and Political Contributions of Barbara Jordan

In a report consisting of five pages the remarkable life and accomplishments of Barbara Jordan, first black elected to the Senate ...

Nadine Gordimer's 'July's People'

In 5 pages, this essay considers the plight of Bam and Marlene Smales, who were sensitive to the dilemma of black apartheid, a pos...

Heroic Myth in Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

In 7 pages this paper applies Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell to the novel Prisoner of Azkaban in an analysis of how...

Vanley Burke

In seven pages Vanley Burke is discussed within the context of Great Britain's Black Art Movement with a consideration of his 'Boy...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

'On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored' by Marita Bonner and 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' by Zora Neale Hurston

what governs their overall behavior. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons ...