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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Black Manhood

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

1960s Black Female Writers

to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...

The Cost of Participation of Black Americans in the Political Process

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Overview of the Armenians

Armenian people preferred to ignore what happened to them decades ago since they now live in the United States. But the author tra...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman from 1977 to 1980

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Double Consciousness and the First Chapter of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

the following: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes ...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

Chapters Eight and Nine of Teaching to Transgress by Belle Hooks

somewhat skeptical on the idea of "feminist studies" and "feminist thinking," as such studies and thinking tended to overshadow th...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Black Families in White America by Billingsley

the black family, which had brought them from their early salve days to the current condition that is admittedly less than stellar...

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...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

'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 ...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Uses of Black and White

come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. (Conrad Part I). This is a premonition of sorts about what he will eventually fi...

The Evolution of Black American English

a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...

Louisiana Slavery

the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

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...

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...