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Precontact Law and Government in Native America

contends that these rules included such considerations as individual rights, provisions for private property, and even adjudicatio...

American Revolution's Failure to Secure Equality for African Americans and Women

In five pages this paper considers the ideology behind the revolution of 'equality for all' but concludes that this has never been...

The Mass Media and the African American CultureAfrican American Culture in the Media: Ebonics and Advertising

People identify, after all, with people that are similar to them. Ebonics has the potential, therefore, to serve as a common link...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

War on Terrorism and the African American's Loyalty Paradox Response

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

Slave Resistance to Enslavement in To Be a Slave by Julius Lester

In six pages this report examines this 1968 text that examines slavery from the perspectives of the slaves and their various modes...

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...

Black Folk Tradition and Black Middle Class Tension

In ten pages this paper examines the conflict between African cultural traditions and the contemporary African American middle cla...

African-American and African Cultural Beliefs on Masculinity

This paper examines the differences in how the concept of masculinity is viewed among African-American and African men. This elev...

Black Religion as Formed by Racism

individuals were members of St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church but, because of the fact they were African American, found them...

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

The Unforgotten African Slave Trade

difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number w...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

African Culture and Ideology and Its Impact Upon African Americans Past and Present

In this paper consisting of six pages the 'Africanness' thread that continues to link contemporary African Americans to their past...

African Slave Trade and its Impact

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

African Slave Trade and the Wait That Continues for Racial Equality

In six pages this paper discusses the impact of the African slave trade upon the African people who still continue to wait for rac...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Compare and Contrast Beloved by Toni Morrison and Silko by Leslie Marmon Ceremony

This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...

Latin America and Colonial Rule Resistance by Indigenous Peoples

the Natives of the new land were essentially at their disposal. The colonized what was then considered the most desirable lands, ...

Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistance

In nine pages the resistance of antibiotics to bacteria is examined with the inclusion of discussions on overprescribing antibioti...

Literature of the New American Republic

commentators argued throughout the 1820s and 30s that there should be works of literature to match "emerging political greatness o...

Racism in Contemporary America

investigations that "successfully demonstrate the unfairness that only Affirmative Action can begin to redress" (Bradley 450). Spe...

Workforce Participation Rates

riveter). But with the war, the demand for workers grew, and "everyone" agreed that women would work; they also agreed that the jo...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...