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African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Portrayal of Men in Seven Guitars and Jitney by August Wilson

going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

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

Hypertension in African American Populations

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

Comparison of Essays Written By Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mothers side was ...

Ivy League Education and Single African American Mothers

in this equation. Black women have not only been historically suppressed by Western Civilization but throughout history in genera...

Black Community of Memphis, Freedman's Bank and the Essay 'Plans Dat Comed from God' by Armstead Robinson

for opening accounts that took into consideration how to disburse the assets of a deceased depositor to that individuals heirs (Ro...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Black English in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

The Influence of Stax Records

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

Diabetes Mellitis and Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

Pacific Northwest, African Americans, and Racial Ideology

and, in fact, to some degree is still in place even today. Although the Civil War freed slaves in the U.S., it did...

Personal Ethics and Cultural Values Research Study Proposal

culture. Personal ethics will enter the picture and will depend upon the individual. Of course, ethics in the business world are r...

Nursing Model on Human to Human Relationship by Joyce Travelbee

how the quality of this relationship affects the therapeutic success of nursing interventions. Major concepts (adaptation) : Lite...

How Ralph Ellison’s Life Affected His Writing

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African-American Population of Houston, Texas

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

African American Diabetics, Cultural Competency

This research paper/essay presents the writer/tutor's suggestions for how a student researcher may wish to design the student's re...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Progression of African Americans Since 1865

future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

Ecocriticism and Post-Colonialism

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...