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The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

Marva Collins Model for Discipline

She also advocates the use of proverbs and poetry, as students to copy and memorize them, as these inspirational tools deliver "cu...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

Culture and Child Abuse

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

Continuity in the Culture of African Americans

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Literature of the New American Republic

commentators argued throughout the 1820s and 30s that there should be works of literature to match "emerging political greatness o...

American Families and Single Parents

In ten pages this paper discusses single dual parenting and considers the differences between Caucasian and African single parents...

Multicultural Educational Environment and Counseling Issues

In eight pages African American students are examined in terms of literature regarding dropout rates for adolescents and college s...

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

A Comparative Analysis of 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?' And "Compare/Contrast

Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Literature and Music Expressed in the Nationalist Culture of African Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Still Burning Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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

Perspective on Slavery

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