YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :African American Playwright August Wilson
Essays 271 - 300
to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...
American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...
in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...
deeper understanding of their capabilities and strengths, as well as the obstacles that they typically face in terms of background...
relatively minor misunderstanding that in the context of his rough neighborhood might have happened to anyone else. Because it is ...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...
2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...
works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...
the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...
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...
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...
ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...
black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...
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...
is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...
Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...
diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...
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 ...
an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...
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...
ready to go in order to defend their inherent rights as human beings. That particular incident was not the first encounter Parks ...