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Slavery Development

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Cultural Identity and Intercultural Communications

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...

A Visit to the San Diego Zoo

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

"Colored People": The History of the Term

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

Debating W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

American Economy and Racism

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

African Americans and the Differing Views of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

In eight pages this paper examines whether the political activism espoused by Du Bois or the conciliatory model of Washington were...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Comparative Analysis of August Wilson's Play Fences and Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

Coming of Age, a Fictional Rendition

This paper is a fictional account of a young African-American coming of age and his travels throughout South Africa and the US. Th...

God Question As Approached by Howard Thurman

In five pages this paper examines how African American author Howard Thurman deals with questions regarding God's nature and exist...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

Past and its Importance in Black Culture and Black Consciousness Afro American Folk Thought From Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine

self-worth" (xi). It is culture which not only links modern-day people, but also connects contemporary man to his primitive ances...

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...

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...

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...

3 African American Authors on Class and Race in the U.S.

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

Thinking Big with Dr. Ben Carson

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

African American Education Throughout History

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

Freedom Rides and African American History

The idea for forcing such integration was still alive but did not take any real concrete action until the 1960s when John F....

School Funding Alternatives Assessed

in school funding and enhanced equitable distribution of financial resources. Current The scenario to be changed is that in...

The Life and Career of Union Pioneer A. Phillip Randolph

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...

Profiling Booker T. Washington

Washington and Realistic Hope For many individuals it is one thing to have ideals and to struggle for those ideals their entire l...

Exporting Computers to Kenya

both computer systems and the Internet on the rise. Though South Africa is considered the "leader" in such a field, Kenya is defin...