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past behind, signs remain at nearly every juncture that there still exists a strong sense of racial and class dissension, particul...

writes of black experience: Once when I walked into a room My eyes would see out the one or two black faces For contact or reass...

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

"Such terms are the language of prejudice - verbal pictures of negative stereotypes" (Pilgrim et al, 2001). Long considered derog...

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

The Railroad was not co-ordinated or organised by any one particular group, but operated basically on the cell principle....

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

This is met with adversity, in the person of Karl Lindner, who "represents white supremacy and all that is entailed in this mental...

site of cultural heritage (Hoechsmnn, 2002). In other words, by reclaiming ones past,and ones history as well as cultural roots, ...

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

student to determine what their perspective is in relationship to the various characters discovery or pursuit of meaning. Our f...

west coast of Africa, but even within this area religious traditions varied greatly" (African-American Religion in the Nineteenth ...

during WWII. In part, the reason why one group should be compensated and the other not, is really due to timing. Some people who f...

on their own. On the other hand, black college students who are part of a collective campus group are fortified with encouragemen...

and speculative finance. Globalization provides a view of the world in which the interests of the powerful are defined as necessit...

that it was the Vikings who actually first discovered America it became of special interest and as such ahs always intrigued this ...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

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

assume roles that abide by social dictates. Female adolescents are particularly susceptible to issues of androgyny as they relate...

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