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Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

Does Hip Hop Harm Black Americans?

and its signature musical expression, rap music, which evolved from the "African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino communities o...

Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Race and the Plays of August Wilson

focus of the story is also not necessarily on making music, but rather on the segregated and isolated and oppressed position these...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

Protests Against Black History Month

abolished. Like Killfile, Cox sees Black History Month as a modern form of segregation, referring to it as the "intellectual equiv...

"Arc of Justice" - Justifiable Homicide

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

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

WORKING CLASS HEROES AND BLACK PICKET FENCES: A COMPARISON

the every day people who live, work and form the community, from stay-at-home moms who mold their families, to fire-fighters, who ...

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

Black Issues in Pre-Civil Rights Chicago

Combss performance, specifically that he never fully develops Walter, who is the central character; this vacuum at the center of t...

Community Nursing Issue Regarding HIV in Black Males and 2010 Objectives

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

Race Issues in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

Organ Donations, 2 Views

This paper pertains to the deficit in available organs for transplant and the issues associated with the black market. Three page...

Family/Childcare Issues & Single Parent

as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...

Clarke County, Georgia's Lynching

his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wi...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

Disproportionality In Special Education

this category (EMSTAC, Intro, 2007). Either overrepresentation or underrepresentation is a problem because it suggests the diagn...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black...

Black Feminism in 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' and 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

feminism, and on the realities of women in general. Some of those statements are presented in her 1926 short story "Sweat" and he...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

African American Reparation Argument

In six pages this research paper discusses the necessity of African American reparations as a result of 250 years of enslavement a...

Comparison of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X

In five pages this paper considers racial issues and the 1960s in making the argument that the similarities that existed between t...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

Dr. Claud Anderson on Discrimination Considered

to live in substandard housing. Dr. Anderson observes that discrimination is perpetuated because Whites have controlling ownershi...

Justice and Abortion According to Bernard Boxill and Ronald Dworkin

In ten pages the opinions contained within Boxill's Blacks and Social Justice and Dworkin's Life's Dominions are examined as they ...

Racial Classification Issues

In five pages this paper examines the texts 'Looking White People in the Eye Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classroo...