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Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

"Arc of Justice" - Justifiable Homicide

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

Antislavery: Slave Narratives And Abolitionists

no uncertain terms gave all people unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? The American Di...

US Black Muslim History

West Africa were Muslims and some black Muslims contend that "Islam is part of the genetic memory of blacks" (1996, p.67). Yet, th...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

WORKING CLASS HEROES AND BLACK PICKET FENCES: A COMPARISON

the every day people who live, work and form the community, from stay-at-home moms who mold their families, to fire-fighters, who ...

THE BLACK HISTORY OF AMERICA’S WHITE HOUSE

white house, to the slaves that actually built it, through generations of servants, aids, activists who worked there, all the way...

Does Hip Hop Harm Black Americans?

and its signature musical expression, rap music, which evolved from the "African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino communities o...

Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

Race and the Plays of August Wilson

focus of the story is also not necessarily on making music, but rather on the segregated and isolated and oppressed position these...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Pacific Northwest Immigration of Blacks and History Lessons

South in the United States. Although neither Washington, Oregon, nor British Columbia were considered true advocates of slavery, ...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

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...

Black Church and Community

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the Black Church strengthens the black community are explored. Eight sources...

African American Author, Historian, and Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages this paper discusses how being a black man influenced the perspectives of W.E.B. Du Bois with his text The Souls of ...

Black Literature and the Influence of the Black Panthers

In five pages this paper discusses how black literature was influenced by the late 20th century's Black Panther party. Five sourc...

Myne Own Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes

The writer discusses the book Myne Own Ground by Breen and Innes, which describes the little known communities of free black who l...

W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain Comparison

In five pages black and white cultural views are contrasted and compared in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Twain's The Adve...

Social Stereotyping and the Black Americans

12 pages and 9 sources. This paper considers the fact that stereotyping in the United States is common and that the stereotyping ...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Three Authors on Nonconformity

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

Knowledge, Domination, and Black Feminism

The impact of increasing knowledge on black women resisting domination are considered in this examination of evolving black femini...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

Black Boy by Richard Wright and History

society, this history, into which he was born, stating "This was the culture from which i sprang. This was the terror from which I...

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...

John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me and the Treatment of Blacks by Whites

to the color of anyones skin due to the fact that he had worked, as a medic, with so many different skin types and cultures that b...