SEARCH RESULTS

to finally triumph in the Americas. Many facts impacted the black experience in the Americas and that impact is occurring e...

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

realities that Celie is born into and must grow up with. She is poor and must essentially raise children that are not hers, give u...

"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the e...

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

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

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

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

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 ...

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

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

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

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

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

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

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

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...

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

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...

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

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