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'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes

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

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...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

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

Twenty First Century Childbearing Practices of African Americans

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

Assimilation Barriers

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

The History of African Americans From the Civil War Reconstruction, through the Progressive Age, and the First World War

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

The Cost of Participation of Black Americans in the Political Process

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

African American Women College Graduates and Marriage

In seven pages this research paper discusses the decline in African American marriage rates in a consideration of the role played ...

'Passing' and the Harlem Renaissance

hiding ones true race be significant? Two points must be made in order to answer this question. First, the literature of the Harl...

Films and African American Gangsters Past and Present

In a paper consisting of eight pages the African American gangster and gangs depicted in Boyz 'N the Hood and Hoodlum are contrast...

Professional Sports Management and Barriers African Americans Face

In a paper consisting of fifteen pages the realm of professional sports management is considered within the context of the barrier...

America and Black Studies

In a research paper consisting of ten pages black studies within the curriculums of American college and universities are examined...

Racism and African Americans

inequity was often used by White Southerners as support for pro-slavery arguments (Jackson 2). Affirmative action was created in...

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...

Elementary Schools and the Necessity for African American Teachers

In five pages this essay discusses why African American teachers are needed to serve as role models in elementary schools. Eight ...

Is It Possible to Achieve an Africana Philosophy?

In five pages this essay examines whether or not the widespread scattering of African Americans throughout the world makes it poss...

The Life, Works and Philosophy of Alice Walker

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

Inner City and Blacks Crimes

In a paper consisting of seven pages inner city incidences of high crime among African American adolescents are discussed in terms...

Societal Roles of African American Males

In five pages this research paper examines the societal role played by African Americans with the emphasis being on males with ste...

Black Southerner's and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

hated -- this did not automatically spell freedom for the black race. It certainly did not improve their way of life in any apprec...

How African Americans Were Treated in the US Before and After the Civil War

This paper examines the treatment of African Americans in the United States from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth centur...

The Civil Rights Movement During the Forties Through the Sixties

This research report examines how the civil rights movement impacted African Americans and others. Various leaders are mentioned s...

Race and Schizophrenia Diagnosis

In ten pages this paper examines the incidences of mistaken African American schizophrenia diagnoses. Ten sources are cited in th...

African American Intellectualism and Education and the Contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

In five pages this paper examines Washington's Atlanta Compromise and the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois in this contrast and comparis...

Cinematic Depiction of African Americans

In fifteen pages this paper analyzes how African Americans in movies have evolved with the success of director Spike Lee among the...

African Americans As Depicted in Cinema II

In six pages this essay examines Hollywood Shuffle, Glory, and Gone with the Wind in order to analyze how African Americans have b...