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society (Nogueira; Bours). The considerable creativity of these people was channeled solely into outlets such as the chant, danc...

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

education students within inclusive classrooms are peer tutoring and content mastery labs. The purpose of the following proposed r...

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

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

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

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

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

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

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

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

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

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

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

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

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

stations. They practiced karate moves on the new carpets. Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as ...

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...