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and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

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

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

other American kid does, but what she lacks is an intact family with a live-in father (Ingrassia, 1993). She was born to a 16-yea...

prudent action to undeniable racism. Enormous Losses, Enormous Problems It certainly is no surprise that retailers consider sho...

predominantly white fifth-grade class, causing young Carson to almost subscribe to the idea that only whites could make good grade...

be reviewed closely and research which specifically targets African American women is essential. Interestingly enough, the "numbe...

rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

ones, most notably Tuckers story about his brother Silas, also tell the stories of the history of racism in the South. Nonetheless...

a purpose for her life, while she struggled through lifes hardships. The autobiography begins when Anne is four years old and port...

Guinea in West Africa from the U.S. in 1969. His 1967 book, "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America" addressed and e...

(Anonymous Booker T. Washington ... one Americas leading educators, 1995; p. 16). This was because Washington taught a subtle kind...

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

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

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

site of cultural heritage (Hoechsmnn, 2002). In other words, by reclaiming ones past,and ones history as well as cultural roots, ...

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

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

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

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

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...