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1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Blues People Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones

continent, yet, in many ways it has been African-American influences which have stimulated creativity in others, both within the b...

The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt

In five pages this novel is analyzed that offers a realistic depiction of race relations and African Americans. There are no othe...

AAVE Debates and Linguistics Terminology

In six pages contemporary linguistics are examined in a terminology overview that includes register versus dialect, descriptive ve...

Slave Narratives and the Portrayal of White Europeans

as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among my people such instances of brutal cruelty. The closeness of the ...

The Relationship Between African Americans and Jews in Baltimore

This 10 page paper considers the views of a number of theorists, including Ernest Burgess, Homer Hoyt, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth a...

African Philosophy Bantu

In five pages universalistic and particularistic perspectives are employed in a discussion of African philosophical aspects as rel...

A Black Oppression Theory

In an essay consisting of three pages Andrew Hacker's theory on the US mainstream society's oppression of African Americans is dis...

Different Cultures for Women in America

Women in America do not have a monolithic cultural experience. This paper examines the difference between Chicano and African-Amer...

More Than a Century and a Half of Contributions by Women to the Labor Movement

This paper considers how since the nineteenth century women have contributed to the labor movement and the workforce with African ...

New York Times Article on the Economy of Nigeria

.Measures adopted to deal with this situation by the Central Bank of Nigeria led to severe liquidity crunch and escalation in ban...

Things Fall Apart Examines Colonialism

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is in many ways both an indictment of colonial England's arrogance and ignorance about African c...

Frederick Douglass' Narrative and an African American Slave's Life

In 6 pages this paper examines the problems confronting enslaved African Americans within the context of Narrative of the Life of ...

Comparing Works by Richard Wright and Jo Ann G. Robinson

In five pages this research paper examines these authors' refusal to accept African American second class citizenship in a segrega...

William Reno's Warlord Politics and African States

In six pages this paper examines the societal impact of the author's study featured in Warlord Politics and African States by Will...

Talk as Social Organization and the Research of Anthropologist Marjorie H. Goodwin

In five pages this research paper focuses upon African American children's language within the context of the book He Said, She Sa...

African Americans in Nursing

In five pages African American nurses are examined from a historical perspective. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Literature and Music Expressed in the Nationalist Culture of African Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...

Hosea Easton's Legacy

In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...

African Art and Symbolism

of the symbols of a culture if we have not been born into it, or lived within it for a long time. However we may say that, modern...

African American Conservatism in the United States

In five pages this paper examines African American conservatism in the United States with Republican presidential primary candidat...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Civil Rights Quest of African Americans

her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Lower Manhattan's African Burial Ground

In ten pages this paper discusses the archaeological discovery of the African burial ground in New York's lower Manhattan. Seven ...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

African American Military Regiments During the US Civil War

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...

The History and Influence of African Canadians in the Nova Scotia Region

In ten pages the similarity of experiences between the African Americans in Nova Scotia and those in the United States are conside...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Only after his death was it realized that much of Washingtons attitude was more like the wolf tending the sheep in a sheep outfit....

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...