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Black Hills' Land Claim of the Oglala Sioux

of its treaties with Native Americans. According to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, a treaty the United States entered into with the ...

Depiction of Women in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

realities that Celie is born into and must grow up with. She is poor and must essentially raise children that are not hers, give u...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Black English in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

'Black English' in an English Dialect Study

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

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education

The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...

The Cost of Participation of Black Americans in the Political Process

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

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

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

Assimilation Barriers

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

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

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

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

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

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

The Black Experience Captured in the Plays of August Wilson

Black experience in Chicago in the 1920s we see realistic dialogue and we see how the black musician is clearly being exploited by...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

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...

A Brief Description of Booker T. Washington

he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...

Racial Oppression and the Black Response

In ten pages this paper discusses American racial oppression and the black response to it during the nineteenth and twentieth cent...

African American Leader Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages Dr. Du Bois' career and his outstanding leadership in the black community is floowed from his Harvard Ph.D. to his r...

Comparing Works by Richard Wright and Jo Ann G. Robinson

In five pages this research paper examines these authors' refusal to accept African American second class citizenship in a segrega...

Overview of Motown and Post 1945 Impacts of Black Identity, Gender, Class, and Race on the United States

In twenty six pages this paper examines the post World War II changes in American culture with regards to race, class, gender, and...

Black Youth of America and Gwendolyn Brooks

In three pages the challenges of American black youth as represented in the Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'Children of the Poor,' 'The B...

Film Depiction of African Americans

Horne and Louis Armstrong. Of course, famous tap dancing acts were featured in some films of the day. There was a well known musi...

African American Reparation Argument

In six pages this research paper discusses the necessity of African American reparations as a result of 250 years of enslavement a...

Two Nations Black and White by Andrew Hacker

This paper consisting of five pages considers the author's thesis on what being an African American means in terms of socioeconomi...

America and Black Studies

In a research paper consisting of ten pages black studies within the curriculums of American college and universities are examined...

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

Im still struggling with any course material that is remotely mathematical. As always, my loves are history, philosophy and this s...