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Civil Rights Movement and the Role of African American Women

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

Countee Cullen's 'Heritage' and African American Ancestry Perceptions

widely differing cultures. The very first line of "Heritage", a line that asks "What is Africa to me", reveals the nature of the ...

The Impact of World War II on Literature

first novel, Tales of the South Pacific (Macmillan, 1947) (Meador 14). This book, which was based on actual World War II experienc...

Fences by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the differences and similarities of these plays are discussed in an examination of whether Wilson's work is an Afric...

Psychiatry's Impact on African Americans

This research paper addresses how African Americans have been misdiagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The writer relates ...

Walker's Everyday Use Compared with Welty's A Worn Path

Wangero Leewanika (formerly known as "Dee") cannot see them as such anymore than the people "Aunt Phoenix" encounters on her walk ...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

Comparative Analysis of Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Maya Angelou's 'Africa'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the ways in which Africa is portrayed in the respective poems but how both poets empl...

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

In five pages this paper contrasts these differing views on Reconstruction by these important African American icons. Six sources...

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's Trial Coverage

This paper contrasts and compares African American and mainstream media's depictions of 'Hurricane' Carter's trial in eight pages....

Moving Mountains by Leon Sullivan

In eight pages this autobiography by General Motor's first African American board member is reviewed and his global corporate infl...

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 ...

Post 1970 Texas Law Enforcement Brutality

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

Fetal Cocaine Exposure and Legal Action Consideration

In twelve pages this paper considers the exposure of a fetus to cocaine in a socioeconomic study of an African American mother in ...

Poverty, African Americans, and Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper discusses the connection between poverty, African Americans, and substance abuse in a consideration that ...

Comparison of Caucasian and African American Men Rates of Prostate Cancer

In nine pages this paper compares the incidence rates between Caucasian and African American men regarding prostate cancer. Five ...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

percent, while rates among black women increase 1 percent, says the National Cancer Institute). Although White women are more li...

African American Women, Environmental Impacts, and Breast Cancer

In five pages environmental factors such as carcinogens exposure are discussed as they relate to the high breast cancer mortality ...

Teen Pregnancy and African Americans II

In five pages this paper examines how the African American community is affected by teenage pregnancy in a consideration of associ...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

Discrimination in the American Military and Its End During World War II

Point would be the training site for the 51st and 52nd Defense Battalions. Ironically, these combat units never actually saw comba...

Phillis Wheatley

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

Article Analysis: Diversity

a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Lewis, Marshall and Tolliver: African American Artists

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...