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black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

about the effect of such statistics on their parenting style, especially in the presence of poverty as a contributing factor. The ...

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

to black versus white homicide victims: 1) Young black males stand a five-to-ten times greater risk of dying by homicide than thei...

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

race and seniority. When the program began, thirteen workers in all were chosen that were equivalent to six white employees and ...

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

stations. They practiced karate moves on the new carpets. Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as ...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

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

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