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extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mothers side was ...

in this equation. Black women have not only been historically suppressed by Western Civilization but throughout history in genera...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

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

going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

and, in fact, to some degree is still in place even today. Although the Civil War freed slaves in the U.S., it did...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

some instances, for example, it refers to the social changes which when a lesser developed country (a preindustrial society in som...

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

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

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

United States that awaited many of them was certainly devastating and destructive, it may well have offered some more opportunitie...

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...