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Arguing for U.S. Black Reparations

reparations for these wrongs contends, in fact, that almost all of the historical problems that have been faced by blacks can be t...

The Piano Lesson and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson

The roles of women in these plays by August Wilson are discussed. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

European Economy and the Black Death

it in some places before the Black Death or the wars suggests that the economic system itself was at fault" (Rempel). By the time ...

Conflict Theory and The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois

not, in order for society to work. Even if they do not agree there must be a sense of balance, even if one group agrees to be oppr...

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, ...

Ignorance and Fear in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

History and Immigration of Blacks to the Pacific Northwest

"the annual level of legal immigration rose from around 300,000 to nearly one million....approximately 83 percent came...

Overview of the Black Plague

disease he was now apparently immune to. It is interesting and informative to note that Tuchman and Defoes work exist in very d...

Examination of Black Holes

faith than on facts that can be observed and verified (Cowen 17). What exactly is a black hole? It isnt anything that can be see...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

1960s Black Female Writers

to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Black Manhood

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

The Cost of Participation of Black Americans in the Political Process

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

Black Power Movement

also the same determination that caused such alarm in those who feared him. "[Malcolm X] stung our consciences and awakened our m...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

Double Consciousness and the First Chapter of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

the following: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes ...

Chapters Eight and Nine of Teaching to Transgress by Belle Hooks

somewhat skeptical on the idea of "feminist studies" and "feminist thinking," as such studies and thinking tended to overshadow 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...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

was an immediate celebrity. However, many racist whites and quite a few people in the black community were angered by his assumed ...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

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

Race Matters According to Cornel West

influential black writers of contemporary times. West views white America as an oppressor of black America, an oppressor ...

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...