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Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

Toni Morrison's Writings and the Use of Trauma

to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...

Cervical or Breast Cancer and the High Incidences in African American Women

National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...

Historian and Journalist George Washington Williams

finally relented and approved him for combat (Franklin, 1977). He received a serious injury during the war and received an honora...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Theology and Gospel Preaching in the African American Church

by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...

African American Teens and the Psychological Impact of Pregnancy

makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...

Comparing African Americans of Today with Those in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

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...

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...

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)....

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 ...

Slavery Development

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Cultural Identity and Intercultural Communications

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

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...

Dakota and Uptown Brands of R.J. Reynolds and Ethics

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

Betty's Case and Cognitive Therapy

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Treatment Plan for an African American Woman Suffering from Alcoholism and PTSD

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

'Black English' in an English Dialect Study

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

African American Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Styles of Parenting

about the effect of such statistics on their parenting style, especially in the presence of poverty as a contributing factor. The ...

Works of Angelina Grimke and Garland Anderson Compared and Contrasted

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...