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

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

fresh water that is accessible under the ground is much greater than the water found in the globes freshwater lakes (Defant, 2003)...

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...

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...

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

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