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Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

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

Twenty First Century Childbearing Practices of African Americans

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

African Americans and Differential Law Enforcement Treatment

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

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

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

Slavery and the Causes of the U.S. Civil War

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

Literature and Dual African American Worlds

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

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

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 ...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Africana Studies and Diaspora

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

African American Poetry and Fiction Analysis

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

Lost Identity and Culture as a Result of the Slave Trade

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

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Portrayal of Men in Seven Guitars and Jitney by August Wilson

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 ...

African American Children, AIDS, and HIV

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

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

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

The History of African Americans From the Civil War Reconstruction, through the Progressive Age, and the First World War

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

A Research Proposal of Strategies to Help African Americans Obtain Equal Opportunity

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

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

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

Comparing African Americans of Today with Those in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

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

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

History and Contemporary Issues of African Americans

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

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

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...

African American Teens and the Psychological Impact of Pregnancy

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

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...