YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Discussion Concerning African Literature
Essays 961 - 990
a student, as an African American male and as a scholar of the world requires an understanding of the events in history that have ...
quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...
depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...
took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...
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...
"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...
1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the e...
& Nwankwo, 2003). Authors say that if any effective reform is to be initiated, such as in the form of debt relief, it must be don...
an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...
"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...
Washington and Realistic Hope For many individuals it is one thing to have ideals and to struggle for those ideals their entire l...
The idea for forcing such integration was still alive but did not take any real concrete action until the 1960s when John F....
responsible for the slower moving form (Ghaffar, 2005). It is this slower moving form which predominates in western and central ...
of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...
years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....
ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...
in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...
have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...
works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...
is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...
societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...
in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...
social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...
As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...
gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...
People identify, after all, with people that are similar to them. Ebonics has the potential, therefore, to serve as a common link...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
(Danto 19). Danto supports his argument with the fact that this is the natural progression out of Picassos Blue Period, which embo...
student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...
the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the sour...