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A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

Harlem's Poet Laureate Langston Hughes

of poetry, ten collections of short fiction, two novels, two volumes of autobiography, nine books for children and more than two d...

Myne Own Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes

The writer discusses the book Myne Own Ground by Breen and Innes, which describes the little known communities of free black who l...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

Post 1970 Texas Law Enforcement Brutality

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

Fetal Cocaine Exposure and Legal Action Consideration

In twelve pages this paper considers the exposure of a fetus to cocaine in a socioeconomic study of an African American mother in ...

Moving Mountains by Leon Sullivan

In eight pages this autobiography by General Motor's first African American board member is reviewed and his global corporate infl...

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's Trial Coverage

This paper contrasts and compares African American and mainstream media's depictions of 'Hurricane' Carter's trial in eight pages....

Walker's Everyday Use Compared with Welty's A Worn Path

Wangero Leewanika (formerly known as "Dee") cannot see them as such anymore than the people "Aunt Phoenix" encounters on her walk ...

Hybrids of Black Music

In five pages the concept of hybrid is examined as it leads into a discussion of the development of African American musical hybri...

W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain Comparison

In five pages black and white cultural views are contrasted and compared in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Twain's The Adve...

Comparative Analysis of Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Maya Angelou's 'Africa'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the ways in which Africa is portrayed in the respective poems but how both poets empl...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois on Reconstruction

In five pages this paper contrasts these differing views on Reconstruction by these important African American icons. Six sources...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

Nineteenth Century Evangelists, Foote and Lee

This essay offers summaries and comparisons between the autobiographical narratives of African American nineteenth century preache...

World War I Journal

This essay takes the form of journal entries that an African American soldiers might have written during World War I. Other issue...

Health Assessment: Black Male with Hypertension

This research paper pertains to a 40-year-old African American male who has hypertension. Ten pages in length, eight sources are c...

Black Panther Movement: Misconceptions

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the Black Panther Movement. This paper includes the history of the Black Panther Party and ...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

Five Conceptual Ways of the Construction of Blackness

This paper reviews key literature like Cornel West Race Matters and WEB Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk to explore the manner in w...

Motherhood and Race, Michelle Obama, Lesbian and Gay Parents

This 10 page paper gives an explanation to many homework answers concerning motherhood and African Americans. This paper includes ...

Sacred and Secular Music: Al Green's Path to God

This 8 page paper gives an overview of the position of both secular and sacred music within the African American Church. This pape...

Glenda Gilmore's 'Gender and Jim Crow'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages, the author's apology for her lack of knowledge pertaining to the African American women's strugg...

Maya Angelou and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The writer presents a biographical sketch of this noted African American writer. An analysis of her 1970 book completes this seve...

Poetry of Langston Hughes

has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

American Slavery Reparations

In six pages this paper argues in support of the government making reparations to the African Americans who descended from slaves....

Chicago's Nation of Islam

In twelve pages this paper examines how Chicago's African American community was strengthened by the Nation of Islam's development...

Minority Populations, HIV Intervention

This paper is comprised of two parts, with each part discussing aspects of the high prevalence of HIV infection among Hispanic/La...

Obesity, Social Marketing

This research paper pertains to a social marketing campaign, the Campaign to End Obesity and the writer also discusses obesity pre...