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Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Race and the Plays of August Wilson

focus of the story is also not necessarily on making music, but rather on the segregated and isolated and oppressed position these...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Civil War to Present Day Black Experience

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

Light Skinned Blacks 'Passing' Themselves Off as Whites in America

In order to enjoy the better things in life, it was better to deny ones heritage, while reclaiming ones heritage, while noble and ...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

United Kingdom's White Underclass, the Black Underclass of America, and Yob Culture

is crossing the boundaries of acceptable behavior, which represents the common denominator between Americas black underclass and t...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

Legacy and Impact of Earl G. Graves

In five pages the Black Enterprise Magazine founder Earl G. Graves is celebrated in terms of his life, legacy, and profound busine...

Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Blacks in Gone With the Wind and The Jazz Singer

mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Black Church and Community

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the Black Church strengthens the black community are explored. Eight sources...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

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...

Influence of the Black Church on America and Civil Rights

In seven pages this paper examines the influence the Black Church as exerted on the United States and on the civil rights movement...

Foundation of African America and Strengths of Black Culture

In a paper that consists of sixteen pages African American families and the cultural strengths they represent are discussed. Ten ...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Three Authors on Nonconformity

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

A Review of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

A 5 page review of the premises presented by Manning Marable. 1 source....

Knowledge, Domination, and Black Feminism

The impact of increasing knowledge on black women resisting domination are considered in this examination of evolving black femini...

African American Author, Historian, and Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages this paper discusses how being a black man influenced the perspectives of W.E.B. Du Bois with his text The Souls of ...

Black Literature and the Influence of the Black Panthers

In five pages this paper discusses how black literature was influenced by the late 20th century's Black Panther party. Five sourc...

Black Elk's and Mother Jones' Social Views

In five pages this paper discusses the social views of Wallace Black Elk, Nicholas Black Elk, and Marry Harris 'Mother' Jones. Fi...

Black Youth of America and Gwendolyn Brooks

In three pages the challenges of American black youth as represented in the Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'Children of the Poor,' 'The B...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...