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"Phenomenal Women," Article Analysis

these clubs provide "alternative sista [sister] spaces," which become significant locations for "literacy learning and literacy ac...

American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

Faulkner and Bambara on Communities

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

Switching Partners

yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...

Men in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...

Culture and Child Abuse

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions'

In a paper that is consists of 5 pages the African American woman Timbu is chronicled through parallels, symbolism, themes, and st...

African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

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

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

Loving Differently? Men and Women

that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...

2 Narratives on the Latina Experience

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

Four Examples of Minority Literature

This paper examines four stories from the genre, including Bambara's Medley, Kingston's, No Name Woman, Chavez's The Last of the M...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

George C. Wolfe's '101 Dalmatians' and Toni Bambara's 'The Lesson'

of segregation forced me to develop an inner strength that has served me well...It was a profoundly significant thing in my life, ...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning

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

The Extremes of Love and Hate as an 'All or Nothing' Proposition

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

The Theme of the Violent African American Patriarchy in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In five pages the focus of this paper is on how women of the African American community must come together and form a unified sist...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Studies

At the same time, it is also the case that Black women...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...