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Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

Black Noise by Tricia Rose

or in any number of ways that reflect the current concerns of black male youth. Female rappers, on the other hand, tell stories fr...

Civil War to Present Day Black Experience

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

Issues of Stereotypes and Prejudice

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

Blacks in Gone With the Wind and The Jazz Singer

mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Legacy and Impact of Earl G. Graves

In five pages the Black Enterprise Magazine founder Earl G. Graves is celebrated in terms of his life, legacy, and profound busine...

Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

1962's Commonwealth Immigrants Act of England

understand all sides of this debate in order to clearly understand the impact of this policy on the lives of both those in Britain...

Overview of the English Civil War

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Stereotype Cause And Effect On The Black Population

enact gratuitous murder. Moreover, all blacks are drug addicts, deal drugs and live in the ghetto, an equation that causes them t...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Black & Decker Financial Position

2009, 2005), released a Power & Hand Tools study in early 2005 concluding that "U.S. demand for power and hand tools is forecast t...

Black and Decker and the Use of Leading Indicators

This 3 page paper looks at what economic indicators may be useful for Black and Decker and discusses what they might mean for the ...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

Five Conceptual Ways of the Construction of Blackness

This paper reviews key literature like Cornel West Race Matters and WEB Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk to explore the manner in w...

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...