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Frederick Douglass' Narrative and an African American Slave's Life

In 6 pages this paper examines the problems confronting enslaved African Americans within the context of Narrative of the Life of ...

Things Fall Apart Examines Colonialism

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is in many ways both an indictment of colonial England's arrogance and ignorance about African c...

A Black Oppression Theory

In an essay consisting of three pages Andrew Hacker's theory on the US mainstream society's oppression of African Americans is dis...

African American Issues in the Texts Think and Grow Rich A Black Choice, Mis-Education of the Negro, Afrocentricity, and Black Power

Guinea in West Africa from the U.S. in 1969. His 1967 book, "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America" addressed and e...

Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

Political Participation and Political Control in Kenya and Tanzania

well as Kenya became more debt encumbered and defaulted on her agreement with the International Monetary Fund (U.S. State Departme...

Comparative Analysis of Richard Wright's Native Son and Black Boy and Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

a purpose for her life, while she struggled through lifes hardships. The autobiography begins when Anne is four years old and port...

Films Chinatown and Raisin in the Sun and Ethnicity

element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...

U.S. Race Relations and Sports

his firm resolution until his lifes end (Faulkner, 1995). The turning point in Robinsons life was when his mother uprooted him an...

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and A. Philip Randolph

offensive against the union" (Anonymous Biography: Chronology: In Search of A. Philip Randolph, by Juan Williams, 2002; aprbio.htm...

A Critique of Lorraine Hansberry's, A Raisin in the Sun

This is met with adversity, in the person of Karl Lindner, who "represents white supremacy and all that is entailed in this mental...

African American Religion and How It Originated

west coast of Africa, but even within this area religious traditions varied greatly" (African-American Religion in the Nineteenth ...

Issues in Black Studies

site of cultural heritage (Hoechsmnn, 2002). In other words, by reclaiming ones past,and ones history as well as cultural roots, ...

William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington on Race

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

Gilded Ages and African Americans

in the Gilded Age. In the presentation we will argue that the predominance of the Victorian Culture helped to shape racial relatio...

Countee Cullen's 'Heritage' and African American Ancestry Perceptions

widely differing cultures. The very first line of "Heritage", a line that asks "What is Africa to me", reveals the nature of the ...

South African Air Cargo Company Intranet Implementation

In ten pages intranet implementation is examined in terms of effectiveness in a case study of South African Air Cargo Company. Ni...

Displays Featured in Washington D.C.'s Museum of Natural History

that it was the Vikings who actually first discovered America it became of special interest and as such ahs always intrigued this ...

Unnecessary for African Americans to Receive Slavery Reparations

during WWII. In part, the reason why one group should be compensated and the other not, is really due to timing. Some people who f...

College Campuses and the Social Significance of African American Sororities and Fraternities

on their own. On the other hand, black college students who are part of a collective campus group are fortified with encouragemen...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Muslim and Christian moral principles and beliefs. In and of itself, that information is fascinating and, considering the state of...

Cultural Impacts of Jimi Hendrix and His Music

of the most integral components of human expression. We must admit that the role of Hendrixs art and the precise type of impact i...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

The Historic Relationship Between Africans and Arabs

In five pages the Islam influence upon the African and Arab relationship and the frequent discord are discussed. Five sources are...

Overview of Environmental Ethics

alert the masses as to the underlying consequences of individual actions. A prime example of this concept is the notion of paying...

Harlem's Poet Laureate Langston Hughes

of poetry, ten collections of short fiction, two novels, two volumes of autobiography, nine books for children and more than two d...