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'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

Indian and European Interaction Patterns

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

America and Being Black and Female

love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

Jews of Eastern Europe and American Blacks in the 1930s

non-Jewish citizens who might have protested at their treatment (Sowards). The last step of course was their mass murder (Sowards)...

U.S. Society and 'the Creative Outsider'

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

An Analysis of the Film, White Man's Burden

the viewer, who comes to the startling realization that the movie must be a true reversal of the races. The black man and the whi...

American Language

In five pages this paper discusses language in the United States with a comparative analysis of two essays, 'If Black English Isn'...

Private Institution National Endowment for Black America

In four pages this essay analyzes that the private institution National Endowment for Black America would be a race specific strat...

Black Power in America and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

In five pages this paper examines the black power movement in America within the context of Malcolm X's autobiography. There are ...

1940s' Unemployment in America

Unemployment in America during this time period particularly as it impacted women and blacks with the return of US soldiers is dis...

Walter and Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun

that the African American male is simply not given the same opportunities, or not as many opportunities, as the white man. This pl...

Comparison: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks"

racism, this time not the violent confrontation of the KKK, but the institutionalized, systematic racism that is so much a part of...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

Religion and Muhammad Ali

in a very "somber mood" due to his internal and external feud concerning "his mentor, Malcolm, and his spiritual leader, the Natio...

Overview of The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley

questing spirit presented throughout the book no matter what the name of the persona. The young life of Malcolm Little is a tragi...

Slave Culture Euro American and African Style

This paper consisting of five pages discusses by way of Nathan Irvin Huggins' 'Black Odyssey' how the combination of African and E...

Evolution of Black Music Hybrids

combine that indifference, with separatism or racism, no wonder the African American share of performances or broadcasts is consid...

Family/Childcare Issues & Single Parent

as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...

HIV and African Americans

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

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...

Theories on Eugenics and Black Children

and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Verm...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

Black Poetry and Literature and the Blues

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

Performance of Black Sprinters

In a literature review consisting of fifteen pages the thesis that physiological differences that are racially specific is present...

Black, Professional & Female

Other prevalent themes that emerged were the isolation that black women experience while working in white-dominated organizations ...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Historical Reflection of Black Literature and Poetry

In five pages the slavery chants continue to reverberate as they connect black literature and poetry past and present. Five sourc...