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A Comparative Analysis of 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?' And "Compare/Contrast

Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...

New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival

also makes the point that there was, in the 1900s, a strict divide between Creole and Black culture in New Orleans, maintained as ...

Frederick Douglass

how even liberals of the North were surprised, if not appalled, at such a union. In essence, what this film presents us with is a ...

Economics and Culture and Ethiopian Women's Lives

Bogalech Aldemu of the Womens Affairs Department of Ethiopias Prime Minister contends that gender discrimination not only exists i...

Women's Reproductive Autonomy and Assisted Conception Impact

can be very empowering, and in many cases allows women to make self-directed choices in their lives. Assisted conception has allo...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

Cultural Impacts of Jimi Hendrix and His Music

of the most integral components of human expression. We must admit that the role of Hendrixs art and the precise type of impact i...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Freedmen

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

Chinese Cinematography and Women's Portrayals

in to the Japanese and be captured, however, eight of these women chose to drown in the Mulan River. One of the most...

Unnecessary for African Americans to Receive Slavery Reparations

during WWII. In part, the reason why one group should be compensated and the other not, is really due to timing. Some people who f...

College Campuses and the Social Significance of African American Sororities and Fraternities

on their own. On the other hand, black college students who are part of a collective campus group are fortified with encouragemen...

Women's Independence and 1920s' America

it forced people into the underground and made them imbibe with fear always looming over their heads. After Prohibition was repea...

Displays Featured in Washington D.C.'s Museum of Natural History

that it was the Vikings who actually first discovered America it became of special interest and as such ahs always intrigued this ...

Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

Issues in Black Studies

site of cultural heritage (Hoechsmnn, 2002). In other words, by reclaiming ones past,and ones history as well as cultural roots, ...

William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington on Race

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...

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...

1960s' African American Political Activism

as H. Rap Brown in his political Autobiography "Die Nigger Die!", the speeches and writings of Malcolm X which included his 1964 s...

The Tradition of African Healing

This 8 page paper examines the role of several different African healers: the diviner, the herbalist, and the traditional healer. ...

The Psychology of Battered Women's Syndrome

The syndrome is discussed both as a psychological problem and a legal defense. The prevalence of this condition is discussed in te...

Dialect Significance in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In twelve pages this research paper presents the argument that a greater appreciation of Hurston's classic novel can be acquired t...

Women's Issues in Brazil According to De Jesus and Caulfield

In six pages this paper is structured in terms of interviewing these authors in a hypothetical Q&A format with the texts Child...

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor and Issues of Gender and Race

In ten pages this African American feminist text is analyzed in its portrayal of gender and racial issues. Eight sources are list...

South Africa's Accounting Standards

In thirteen pages this paper compares South Africa's accounting structure to the U.S. and considers its international accounting s...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and Women's Social Status

In eleven pages this paper discusses these plays by William Shakespeare in terms of the social status of women as depicted by the ...

Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Males with Disabilities

and Program Participation data. According to this survey, there are about 4.2 million disabled African Americans in the United Sta...

Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

In six pages this essay compares the dreams of each of these African American activists. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Should Aid to Africa be Reduced?

context of the provision of aid; give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest...