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Black Religion as Formed by Racism

individuals were members of St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church but, because of the fact they were African American, found them...

Mental Issues, Mindset And Social Work

state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

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

Cultural Nationalism and Diversity

In eight pages intermarriages and issues of cultural diversity and nationalism are considered from a U.S. perspective through Jewi...

An Affirmative Action Overview

In eleven pages affirmative action's history is examined along with the arguments that have long surrounded this programs and some...

Glenda Gilmore's 'Gender and Jim Crow'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages, the author's apology for her lack of knowledge pertaining to the African American women's strugg...

Why Affirmative Action Needs Some Alterations

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Affirmative Action is not doing what the policy was created to do and is ...

Racial Misconceptions and Educational Imperatives

This in-depth research paper looks at how racial stereotypes and misconceptions, along with changes in arrest rates can affect the...

Black Middle Class and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

to such an extent that?in retrospect?these witnesses now see the African-Americans who suffered as people, and not as "other." The...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

A Proposed Program on Hypertension

and gender groups between 1999 and 2004, in African American women this incidence of hypertension increased by 14 percent (Taylor,...

Theories in Sociological Studies

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

Heart Disease and African Americans

This research paper focuses on Boynton Beach, Florida and discusses the importance of controlling high blood pressure among its Af...

"Phenomenal Women," Article Analysis

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

Motherhood and Race, Michelle Obama, Lesbian and Gay Parents

This 10 page paper gives an explanation to many homework answers concerning motherhood and African Americans. This paper includes ...

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...

Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

Maya Angelou Gives an Eloquent Voice to This Generation

this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...

Effects of Negro League Baseball

Frank Thompson in Long Island, who organized a group of Argyle Hotel waiters in the 1880s and ultimately merged with a Philadelphi...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

African American Community, Important Theories of Psychology, and the Causes and Effects of Neglect and Oppression

1998). What these factors are telling many within the mental health community it that the majority of African Americans are living...

A Research Proposal of Strategies to Help African Americans Obtain Equal Opportunity

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

Teen Pregnancy and African Americans II

In five pages this paper examines how the African American community is affected by teenage pregnancy in a consideration of associ...

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...

Chicago's Nation of Islam

In twelve pages this paper examines how Chicago's African American community was strengthened by the Nation of Islam's development...

African Americans and Repatriation

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