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

Only after his death was it realized that much of Washingtons attitude was more like the wolf tending the sheep in a sheep outfit....

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Why Affirmative Action Needs Some Alterations

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Affirmative Action is not doing what the policy was created to do and is ...

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

The Relationship of African-American Men to Conflict Theory

The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...

New Deal and African Americans

The 'fairness' of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal on African Americans is assessed in seven pages with the conclusion reached tha...

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 ...

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

Colonialism and Feminism as Seen in Ngugi and Head

This paper examines the Twentieth Century authors, Ngugi and head. The author specifically addresses the contributions of the fem...

American Slavery Reparations

In six pages this paper argues in support of the government making reparations to the African Americans who descended from slaves....

Maya Angelou and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The writer presents a biographical sketch of this noted African American writer. An analysis of her 1970 book completes this seve...

African American Adolescents and Depression

depressive symptoms have changes throughout the years with the social and scientific knowledge available. Until the end of the 17...

Poetry of Langston Hughes

has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

Challenge, then, for Kant, would come from the inherent process that man experiences as he moves away from nature and into a socie...

African American Education and Booker T. Washington

In six pages the role of Booker T. Washington as teacher to his African American people is discussed. Five sources are cited in t...

Talk as Social Organization and the Research of Anthropologist Marjorie H. Goodwin

In five pages this research paper focuses upon African American children's language within the context of the book He Said, She Sa...

William Reno's Warlord Politics and African States

In six pages this paper examines the societal impact of the author's study featured in Warlord Politics and African States by Will...

Chicago's Nation of Islam

In twelve pages this paper examines how Chicago's African American community was strengthened by the Nation of Islam's development...

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

African American Theater and Blues and the Influential Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

Lower Manhattan's African Burial Ground

In ten pages this paper discusses the archaeological discovery of the African burial ground in New York's lower Manhattan. Seven ...

African Americans in Nursing

In five pages African American nurses are examined from a historical perspective. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Hosea Easton's Legacy

In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...

The Post Civil War South

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Learning to Care for Children/A Study Critique

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...

Epic of Sunjata, Efuru, and Things Fall Apart Compared

In a paper consisting of six pages these three African novels written by Fa Digi Sisoko, Flora Nwapa, and Chinua Achebe are compar...

Literature as the Continental Mirror of Africa's Struggles

In a paper consisting of three pages the African struggles are examined within the context of Buchi Emecheta's 'The Joys of Mother...

Fatherhood in Master Harold . . . and the Boys by Athol Fugard

In a paper consisting of five pages the representation of fatherhood in the play by the South African playwright focuses upon a co...

Kingship and Society in Sundiata

In three pages this African literary epic is examined in terms of its themes of kingship and society with topics including artisti...

The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...