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Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

American Imperialism and Vietnam

same. Because of this, the American people found it easy t believe that the South Vietnamese were, "or soon would be," just like ...

A New Type of American Voting System

election officials; the fact that every election year millions of American citizens are effectively disqualified from the voting b...

American Politics and Charismatic Leadership

is put forward by the opposition. Willner asserts that in order for this devotion to supersede logic, the people must consider the...

The Foundation of Merit Public Service in American Democracy by Patricia Wallace Ingraham

one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...

1920s' American Republican Party

the League of Nations, dubbed as "Wilsons folly," cast a long shadow, and with a strong and unified party in place, thanks to the ...

Negative Effects of Single African American Motherhood

other American kid does, but what she lacks is an intact family with a live-in father (Ingrassia, 1993). She was born to a 16-yea...

The Political Role of American Mass Media

In many ways it could be said that we are being lulled into a sense of complacency by the glowing light and ever present hum of th...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal iIn Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

a primary component of the transformation to African-American status, Huggins delves deep into the historical and cultural foundat...

Artists Horace Pippin, Edward Hicks, Thomas Cole, and American Romanticism

(Thomas Cole). In these works there is undeniable evidence of the pristine nature of his subjects (Thomas Cole). Cole renders hi...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

be reviewed closely and research which specifically targets African American women is essential. Interestingly enough, the "numbe...

The American Press and Its Bias Against Arabs

practice the religion? Why is there an anti-Middle East sentiment? By and large, Americans get the news from American media and it...

Culture of Mexican Americans

The irony of the great American dream becomes quickly apparent. Never-the-less, Mexicans continue to seek that dream as a means o...

Predictions of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Survival of Native Americans

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

Italian Americans Defined by Network Television Shows

intelligence as seen in the character of the Fonz. "When Arthur (Fonzie) Fonzarelli appeared on the screen in 1974, with his slick...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Prediction of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mexico As an American 'Poison'

U.S. His use of the metaphor "poison" reflects the intensity of his feelings on this subject. To Emerson Mexicos political sover...

Slavery and the Effects of the American Constitutional Convention

that after the war for independence the English goods that the nation had relied upon disappeared, making the goods that the South...

African American Stereotypes and Cinematic Semiotics

rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...

The Quiet American from a Critical Standpoint

much more concerned with relating the circumstances under which he read the novel rather then addressing the characteristics of th...

Starving Latin American Peasants Scenario

in power, but not money or food for those working the land. As an interesting and enlightening look at just some of the figures, w...

Competing American Ideologies in the North and South Before, During, and After the Civil War

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

African American Author Lorene Cary's Atypical Success

of course, is a predominantly white school and only just before she arrived it was not only all white but it was all male. Cary w...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

Cuban American Community and Assimilation

the beginning of our history. According to popular belief, the U.S. has actually been more successful than other countrie...

Government and American Major League Baseball

things such as television rights and licensing fees, while each individual team is responsible for marketing games to consumers. I...

Contemporary American Women and The Amish Women of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania

local movie theater. However, young Amish girls are not allowed to even think about dating until they reach age sixteen, and then...

United States and the Asian American Experience

it can be said, the Asian culture has pervaded and begun to saturate into the fabric of American culture and society. This may mea...

Broadcasting and African American Exclusion

manifestation of this discrimination in the media is really not that surprising. Marger (2000) in "Race and Ethnic Relation...