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and they only aggravate the gender issue by putting blinders on people so as to avoid the truth. A relevant phrase in liter...

observers of Indian culture more, the implications of homosexuality inherent in the berdache tradition or the idea that individual...

to finally triumph in the Americas. Many facts impacted the black experience in the Americas and that impact is occurring e...

Jacobs offers a depiction of slavery life that mirrors the inherent struggle women faced at the hands of their while slave owners....

encounters with North African Muslim immigrants who had come to Detroit (Malik, 2004). A key figure in the Nation of Islam movemen...

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

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...

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...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

other characters in this story perceive Phoenix, essentially judging her based upon her external characteristics. The hunter is n...

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

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

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

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...

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 ...

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

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

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