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Black English in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

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...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Black Hills' Land Claim of the Oglala Sioux

of its treaties with Native Americans. According to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, a treaty the United States entered into with the ...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

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...

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...

Assimilation Barriers

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Broadcasting and African American Exclusion

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

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

White Establishment and the Black Panther Party

militants, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (Rhodes, 1999). This was modeled after a...

African American Cultural Perspectives in W.E.B. du Bois' Souls of Black Folks

African American cultural perspectives on Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. du Bois are considered in a paper consisting of 5 pages. ...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

American Religious Tradition Experiences

In ten pages the various experiences involved in the American religious condition are examined in a consideration of the firsthand...

Civil Rights and the NAACP During the 1960s

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...

HIV and African Americans

This research paper offers an overview of the significance of HIV/AIDS within the black American community. The discussion focuses...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

Nan Goldin Exhibit At The Matthew Marks Gallery: General Review

the subjects soul in order answer the call of meaning so critical to the postmodern movement. The photography unarguably becomes ...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

A Brief Description of Booker T. Washington

he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

Im still struggling with any course material that is remotely mathematical. As always, my loves are history, philosophy and this s...

Contemporary Black Nationalism and Malcolm X

In five pages this paper examines the influence of Malcolm X upon American society's contemporary Black Nationalism movement. Thr...

Conflicts of African American People in 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

whites. Washington also felt that this was completely possible, and that in fact when white workers saw that the blacks in no way ...

Southern Baptist Church Burnings and Racism

In four pages this essay examines the KKK's role in burning Southern baptist churches in a consideration of how racism still exist...

Two Nations Black and White by Andrew Hacker

This paper consisting of five pages considers the author's thesis on what being an African American means in terms of socioeconomi...

Black Southerner's and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

hated -- this did not automatically spell freedom for the black race. It certainly did not improve their way of life in any apprec...

Great Men of Industry Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Duke, and John D. Rockefeller

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....