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darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

as in the larger markets it may be necessary to tailor operation or products to the national requirements of each market (Yip, 19...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

his time. Another intriguing aspect of the story illustrates how Equiano was not born into slavery, but rather born into a free...

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

he was child. He left home at the age of twenty one and in the year 1325 he would begin to satisfy his curiosities. He would jour...

explains: " Two of my older brothers, Junnie and Dwight, went into the Army to get away (Billy left college after one year, but he...

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...

West Africa were Muslims and some black Muslims contend that "Islam is part of the genetic memory of blacks" (1996, p.67). Yet, th...

nature - the very truth of human nature - which is why it is often painful to accept. Indeed, Hansberrys work represents all that...

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

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

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

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

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

to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

also the same determination that caused such alarm in those who feared him. "[Malcolm X] stung our consciences and awakened our m...

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

the following: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes ...

somewhat skeptical on the idea of "feminist studies" and "feminist thinking," as such studies and thinking tended to overshadow th...

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...