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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...

16 Year Old African American Teen Psychological Assessment

the mother was not abusive she was continuously accused by Thompson of "bringing up things about the past" and constantly excited ...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Negative Effects of Single African American Motherhood

other American kid does, but what she lacks is an intact family with a live-in father (Ingrassia, 1993). She was born to a 16-yea...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

African American Stereotypes and Cinematic Semiotics

rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

be reviewed closely and research which specifically targets African American women is essential. Interestingly enough, the "numbe...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

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

1800 to 1910 Church Organs of England

to the nineteenth century, the pipe organ was predominant, but it soon found a formidable rival in the reed organs that were being...

3 African American Authors on Class and Race in the U.S.

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

Comparing African Americans of Today with Those in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

History and Contemporary Issues of African Americans

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Theology and Gospel Preaching in the African American Church

by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...

Identity and African American Males in the Rural South

will result in them believing it. Similarly, keeping African-Americans in the degrading conditions of slavery has instilled a bel...

African American Education Throughout History

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

Freedom Rides and African American History

The idea for forcing such integration was still alive but did not take any real concrete action until the 1960s when John F....

African American Teens and the Psychological Impact of Pregnancy

makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...

African Americans and the Differing Views of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

In eight pages this paper examines whether the political activism espoused by Du Bois or the conciliatory model of Washington were...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"

North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civili...

African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...