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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...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

The Black Experience Captured in the Plays of August Wilson

Black experience in Chicago in the 1920s we see realistic dialogue and we see how the black musician is clearly being exploited by...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Discrimination Based on Color

Race and color continue to be used to gauge acceptability in American culture. This paper examines racial and color factors, both ...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

American Religious Tradition Experiences

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

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...

Black Robe by Brian Moore and Its Depiction of Native Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the tone of the depiction of Native Americans and what traits the author chose to stress in his ...

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...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

Legacy and Impact of Earl G. Graves

In five pages the Black Enterprise Magazine founder Earl G. Graves is celebrated in terms of his life, legacy, and profound busine...

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...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Blacks in Gone With the Wind and The Jazz Singer

mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

The Black Community in the Works of Richard Wright

This 13 page paper explores the way Richard Wright describes the black community in his works Native Son and Black Boy. The writer...

Europe and the Black Death

This paper consists of six pages and examines the Black Plague or Black Death that had a catastrophic impact upon 14th century Eur...