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The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

In six pages this essay compares the dreams of each of these African American activists. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Comparative Analysis of Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Maya Angelou's 'Africa'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the ways in which Africa is portrayed in the respective poems but how both poets empl...

Walker's Everyday Use Compared with Welty's A Worn Path

Wangero Leewanika (formerly known as "Dee") cannot see them as such anymore than the people "Aunt Phoenix" encounters on her walk ...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's Trial Coverage

This paper contrasts and compares African American and mainstream media's depictions of 'Hurricane' Carter's trial in eight pages....

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

Concepts and Theories in Cornel West's Race Matters and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The theories and concepts contained in each of these African American texts such as religion and race, the separatist movement, an...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Biographies of 3 Influential African Americans Lorraine Hansberry, Anne Moody, and Gordon Parks

were taught to value honor, education, equality, and the importance of telling the truth. Parks childhood instilled in him a fierc...

Using Vernacular to Reflect Self Image in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the Ghosts of Slavery

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these literary works regarding the lasting impressions of the slave experience up...

Films and African American Gangsters Past and Present

In a paper consisting of eight pages the African American gangster and gangs depicted in Boyz 'N the Hood and Hoodlum are contrast...

2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

Comparison of Caucasian and African American Men Rates of Prostate Cancer

In nine pages this paper compares the incidence rates between Caucasian and African American men regarding prostate cancer. Five ...

Comparing and Contrasting Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington

The writer compares and contrasts the lives and work of Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington, and the prejudice they faced beca...

Native Land Mistreatment of Native Americans

In 5 pages racism as it pertains to Native Americans on their home soil is discussed. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliograp...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

U.S. History, Native Americans, and Immigrants

In eight pages this paper examines American history with an emphasis upon the significant role of immigrants, struggles of the Nat...