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in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

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

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

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

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...

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...

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

extent challenged when her cousin decided to get married. Up until that point, Ludmilla had created and lived a life where at leas...

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

of poetry, ten collections of short fiction, two novels, two volumes of autobiography, nine books for children and more than two d...

and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known for his provocative New Y...

widely differing cultures. The very first line of "Heritage", a line that asks "What is Africa to me", reveals the nature of the ...

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

In twelve pages this paper considers the exposure of a fetus to cocaine in a socioeconomic study of an African American mother in ...

In nine pages this paper discusses the connection between poverty, African Americans, and substance abuse in a consideration that ...

This paper contrasts and compares African American and mainstream media's depictions of 'Hurricane' Carter's trial in eight pages....

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...

accepted within the melting pot. Shrouded in white sheets to cover their cowardice faces, white men would beat, burn and kill the...

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...