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The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the Ghosts of Slavery

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these literary works regarding the lasting impressions of the slave experience up...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Biographies of 3 Influential African Americans Lorraine Hansberry, Anne Moody, and Gordon Parks

were taught to value honor, education, equality, and the importance of telling the truth. Parks childhood instilled in him a fierc...

Using Vernacular to Reflect Self Image in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

Depression and African American Women

In eight pages this research paper discusses how there are factors unique to the life experiences of African American women that d...

Contemporary Family and the Father's Role

In ten pages this paper discusses the growing roles of fathers in modern families with distinctions between gay and African Americ...

Cultural Nationalism and Diversity

In eight pages intermarriages and issues of cultural diversity and nationalism are considered from a U.S. perspective through Jewi...

Sociological Concept of Family

In twelve pages this paper examines the theories of Stacey and Popenoe regarding the family from a sociological concept with Afric...

Black Middle Class and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

to such an extent that?in retrospect?these witnesses now see the African-Americans who suffered as people, and not as "other." The...

Zoot Suit History

In five pages this paper considers the importance of the Zoot Suit that includes its enduring African American cultural influence....

Multicultural Educational Environment and Counseling Issues

In eight pages African American students are examined in terms of literature regarding dropout rates for adolescents and college s...

African American Men and HIV

In twenty pages this paper examines the prevalence of HIV among the African American male population in a community outreach progr...

Business Behavior and Religious Values

the perception of how humanism has been a necessary yet missing element within the business society. "Ethical humanism cuts out t...

The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt

In five pages this novel is analyzed that offers a realistic depiction of race relations and African Americans. There are no othe...

The Relationship Between African Americans and Jews in Baltimore

This 10 page paper considers the views of a number of theorists, including Ernest Burgess, Homer Hoyt, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth a...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

AAVE Debates and Linguistics Terminology

In six pages contemporary linguistics are examined in a terminology overview that includes register versus dialect, descriptive ve...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Depiction of Women in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

realities that Celie is born into and must grow up with. She is poor and must essentially raise children that are not hers, give u...

Self and Suppressing Black Feminist Thought

Jacobs offers a depiction of slavery life that mirrors the inherent struggle women faced at the hands of their while slave owners....

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Exporting Computers to Kenya

both computer systems and the Internet on the rise. Though South Africa is considered the "leader" in such a field, Kenya is defin...

Comparing the Educational Philosophies of Washington and Du Bois

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

African American Poverty Causes

"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...

Introduction to West African History by Michael Crowder

In five pages this paper examines how West Africans were affected culturally and politically by the colonial rule of France and Gr...

African American Athlete Interview

In two pages a sample interview with an African American hockey player is presented with such issues as attitudes of the media, ot...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

Critical Opinions on 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

In eleven pages this research paper considers the diverse critical opinions regarding this landmark early 20th century African Ame...

Relations Between Jews and African Americans

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the views on relations between African Americans and Jews based upon the contrastin...