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Issues in Black Studies

site of cultural heritage (Hoechsmnn, 2002). In other words, by reclaiming ones past,and ones history as well as cultural roots, ...

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

West African and East African Slave Trade

than one hundred slaves at a time and usually carried other type trading goods on their ships as well, such as ivory, spices, and ...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

In My Father's House by Anthony Appiah

traveler would have felt that there were "profoundly different impulses, ideas and forms of life" (174). In short, Appiah makes ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Social and Political Theory

In 9 pages this paper discusses Achebe's novel as it relates to African social and political theory considered in The Dual Mandate...

The Difference between Perceived and Real Cultural Understanding

Using a scenario provided by the student where an Australian teacher is tutoring a South African student in a higher education set...

African Women and their Changing Roles

people, the Khoena, were "irredeemable savages" while to "black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, sh...

African Slave Trade and the Wait That Continues for Racial Equality

In six pages this paper discusses the impact of the African slave trade upon the African people who still continue to wait for rac...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Racism

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

Questions about the African Continent

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper relates the answers to some specific questions about the African contintent, including the infl...

African Slave Trade and its Impact

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

Pan Africanism and 2 Visions

the Caribbean thought of themselves as members of a single "Negro" race, of which W.E.B. DuBois wrote about (Appiah, 2002). During...

England and African Immigration

even two decades ago and London has changed completely. It is a challenge for both immigrants and natives to accommodate each othe...

Feminism, Ethnicity, and Race

that her argument indicates that such realities truly limit people in their social status and economic position. She states, "To b...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

'Phaethon' by Ted Hughes

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

Success of Baker Hughes Inc.

sums up their goal of providing exceptional value for customers: "Our emphasis is on practical, dependable solutions within the we...

Film The Breakfast Club and the Interaction Significance of Teen Role Taking

not only understanding themselves but themselves in relation to others and others as individuals. Within social studies it is gene...

Art and the Legacy of the Puritans

In five pages this essay analyzes the Puritan's artistic legacy in America as considered by art critic Robert Hughes. There are n...

An Analysis of Richard Hughes' Novella, A High Wind in Jamaica

This paper analyzes various literary aspects of this short novel by Richard Hughes. This three page paper has no additional sourc...

“Human Built World”

that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...

Culture of Complaint by Robert Hughes

his discourse, Hughes appears to suggest that his arguments are in an attempt to advocate for education and for the essential natu...