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Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

Im still struggling with any course material that is remotely mathematical. As always, my loves are history, philosophy and this s...

African Literature's Oral Culture and Tradition

In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...

Apartheid and African American Art

In five pages this paper discusses the influence of apartheid on African American artists and their art and the compassionate corr...

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...

Elephants, Rhinos, Kobs, Leopards And Buffalo: Communication In African Culture

of every family. For the most part the only way to relate this history from one generation to the next was through storytelling; ...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

Abolitionism/There Was No Other Way

moral conviction, and, especially. on the part of African American activists, a fierce visceral passion for freedom" (Bordewich 4)...

Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

The Roosevelt Administration and the Black Cabinet

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

Phillis Wheatley

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Lewis, Marshall and Tolliver: African American Artists

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

Article Analysis: Diversity

a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...

The Abolition Movement

also mean they would have to pay higher taxes, but they were willing to do so (Ratification debate on the U.S. Constitution). The ...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

A Visit to the San Diego Zoo

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

The Post Civil War South

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Schreber and Dostoyevsky

with his wifes hopes. In the case of the Underground Man one can see his hopes in the prostitute in the following: "I hated her ...

African Americans and the Differing Views of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

In eight pages this paper examines whether the political activism espoused by Du Bois or the conciliatory model of Washington were...

Comparative Analysis of August Wilson's Play Fences and Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

"Colored People": The History of the Term

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

American Economy and Racism

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

An Alpha Phi Alpha Admissions Essay Sample

a student, as an African American male and as a scholar of the world requires an understanding of the events in history that have ...

Slavery Development

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...