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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...

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

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

about the effect of such statistics on their parenting style, especially in the presence of poverty as a contributing factor. The ...

to black versus white homicide victims: 1) Young black males stand a five-to-ten times greater risk of dying by homicide than thei...

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

stations. They practiced karate moves on the new carpets. Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as ...

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...