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Why Affirmative Action Needs Some Alterations

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Affirmative Action is not doing what the policy was created to do and is ...

African American Single Motherhood

problem in regards to available options that can cope with the needs of sick chidden (Accordino, 1998). I want to make something...

The Land of the Lotus Eaters Painting by Robert S. Duncanson

In six pages this painting by 19th century African American artist Robert S. Duncanson is analyzed with the emphasis being on its ...

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

African American Military Regiments During the US Civil War

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...

African Americans and Repatriation

accepted within the melting pot. Shrouded in white sheets to cover their cowardice faces, white men would beat, burn and kill the...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

The History and Influence of African Canadians in the Nova Scotia Region

In ten pages the similarity of experiences between the African Americans in Nova Scotia and those in the United States are conside...

Lost Identity and Culture as a Result of the Slave Trade

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

Literature and Dual African American Worlds

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

African Americans and Differential Law Enforcement Treatment

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

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

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 ...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

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

African American Females and Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention

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

Africana Studies and Diaspora

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

African American Poetry and Fiction Analysis

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

Psychiatry's Impact on African Americans

This research paper addresses how African Americans have been misdiagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The writer relates ...

Walker's Everyday Use Compared with Welty's A Worn Path

Wangero Leewanika (formerly known as "Dee") cannot see them as such anymore than the people "Aunt Phoenix" encounters on her walk ...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois on Reconstruction

In five pages this paper contrasts these differing views on Reconstruction by these important African American icons. Six sources...

Hybrids of Black Music

In five pages the concept of hybrid is examined as it leads into a discussion of the development of African American musical hybri...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

Comparative Analysis of Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Maya Angelou's 'Africa'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the ways in which Africa is portrayed in the respective poems but how both poets empl...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

Critical Opinions on 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

In eleven pages this research paper considers the diverse critical opinions regarding this landmark early 20th century African Ame...

Relations Between Jews and African Americans

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the views on relations between African Americans and Jews based upon the contrastin...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

Double Consciousness Theories of W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between African Americans and the double consciousness theories of W.E.B. Du Boi...

America and the Reality of Gender and Race

In six pages this paper discusses U.S. history in terms of gender issues and then considers the present African American reality. ...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...