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Lost Identity and Culture as a Result of the Slave Trade

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

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

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 ...

Adult Development and Aging

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

3 Questions on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Answered

the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order to maintain a balance in ...

African American Females and Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention

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

Africa Education During Apartheid

the obtaining of one goal: white supremacy over the majority black population in South Africa. INTRODUCTION: Each country has num...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

African Americans and Differential Law Enforcement Treatment

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

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

The 1988 Movie 'Zan Boko'

to consider what defines "progress" and what is sacrificed in the name of progress. Kabor? has been criticized for his "heavy hand...

Literature and Dual African American Worlds

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

Africa's Portuguese Counterinsurgents

the gold mines of South Africa (Dana and France 67). Although these laborers were paid, they were successful in keeping very litt...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

The History of African Americans From the Civil War Reconstruction, through the Progressive Age, and the First World War

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

Twenty First Century Childbearing Practices of African Americans

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

The Mass Media and the African American CultureAfrican American Culture in the Media: Ebonics and Advertising

People identify, after all, with people that are similar to them. Ebonics has the potential, therefore, to serve as a common link...

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

African American Children, AIDS, and HIV

student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison and African Cosmology

the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the sour...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

A Research Proposal of Strategies to Help African Americans Obtain Equal Opportunity

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

Hitler's Germany and the Jim Crow South/Similarities in Regards to Racism

some instances, for example, it refers to the social changes which when a lesser developed country (a preindustrial society in som...