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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...

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

Black Experience in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk

In three pages this essay examines the black experience as represented in this text by W.E.B. Du Bois. One source is cited in the...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

Black Community and the Impact of Black Sports Figuresty

talk to other tribes in North Dakota about education, lifestyle choices, success, character and health. Others will establish gr...

Black Elk Speaks by Nicholas Black Elk and Dialogue

DM: I couldnt really say, considering that I only first read this book last week, but I think I know what you mean. TL: OK, you ...

Black on Black Pottery of Maria Martinez

In five pages Tewa potter Maria Martinez's amazing life and are are explored. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

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...

"Native Son" And American History X" - Dual Racial Intolerance

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

Cohen: "Making a New Deal"

experiences help to explain how the politics of these workers evolved (Cohen, 1991). The solidarity that crystallized into the st...

Advertising Hershey Chocolate

a small volume of "old," classic recipes from early in the 20th century, updated to take advantage of electric ovens with thermost...

Some Legal Aspects of Hoover Dam

lived nearby. Rationale for Hoover Dam The benefits that a dam on the Colorado River could bring to the southwestern United...

The Trial of Tom Robinson: America in the 1930s

in Scottsboro, Alabama (Champion). In these proceedings, nine black men were accused of raping two white women; both groups had be...

What It Means To Be A Black Belt In Karate

their parents. They must have it all right now or they will be upset. While this behavior may be considered normal for children,...

U.S. and Canada's 'Brain Drain'

In six pages this paper examines the brain drain which dates back to the 1930s and how it occurs between the U.S. and Canada. Fiv...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

Post-1930s Politics in Western Canada

the Winnipeg frontier once prospered in Anglo capitalist wealth, but when immigrants, predominantly from Eastern Europe, began rel...

Women's Issues and Racism

In 6 pages this paper considers the Reconstruction era until the 1930s in a discussion of how changes affected women's issues and ...

American Literature and the Issue of Class

leaned left. While it is true that the early part of the twentieth century provided an impetus on which authors could expound th...

Overview of the Negritude Movement

In six pages this paper discusses the negritude movement of the 1930s and how it transformed by the 1960s and how such views have ...

Antitrust Law and Sacony-Vacuum Oil Company

In ten pages this report discusses the court rulings regarding the Sacony Vacuum Oil antitrust case of the 1930s. Five sources are...

Middle East Violence and Revolt During the 1930s

In five pages this paper discusses the discord of the 1930s' Middle East and the effects of major socioeconomic changes during thi...

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

In six pages this paper considers the Great Terror of 1930s Russia within the context of the novel and discusses how Stalin's purg...

Russian Industrialization and Joseph Stalin

In six pages this paper examines how Stalin's ruthlessness was responsible for the 1930s' economic revival of the Soviet Union. F...

French 'New Deal' of the 1930s and Leon Blum

week at unchanged weekly wages (which was applied on an industry-by-industry basis between September 1936 and March 1937, the sett...

France and Germany's Nazi Party

In five pages this paper examines the late 1930s' and early 1940s' Nazi party in France and Germany in a consideration of relevant...