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

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

and, in fact, to some degree is still in place even today. Although the Civil War freed slaves in the U.S., it did...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

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

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...

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)....

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 ...

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

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

continue to rise" (Hanke, 1993, pp. 22). Baltimore set an unenviable record for the number of homicides in 1992 of 331, which...

In five pages this paper examines how the African American community is affected by teenage pregnancy in a consideration of associ...

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

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

In five pages the differences and similarities of these plays are discussed in an examination of whether Wilson's work is an Afric...

In two pages this paper discusses the themes of self identity and Black culture as they pertain to African American men as reflect...

first novel, Tales of the South Pacific (Macmillan, 1947) (Meador 14). This book, which was based on actual World War II experienc...