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American Diversity

and economic issues must be considered along with positions of ethnic and religious minorities as well as issues that go to enviro...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

U.S. Race Relations and Sports

his firm resolution until his lifes end (Faulkner, 1995). The turning point in Robinsons life was when his mother uprooted him an...

Films Chinatown and Raisin in the Sun and Ethnicity

element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington on Race

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...

American Dream As Embodied in Benjamin Franklin

it pertains to ones identity. Franklin essentially constructs his approach to self, or identity, never really calling it self or...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

History of Blackface Minstrelsy

Black minstrelsy and its role throughouth the history of Black American culture is discussed within the context of Eileen Southern...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Identity of Native Americans, Religion and Politics

but it also led to a form of identity crisis for the descendants of these tribes. Part ancient heritage and part colonial industr...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

US Companies and the Effects of NAFTA

Companies must comply with regulations pertinent to the environment due to the treaty and they also have the opportunity to move f...

Americanism's Essence Through Advancement, Adaptability, and Adventure

the phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" is, in short, the essence of the spirit of adventure, adaptability, and advancement that d...

The Black Experience Before and After the American Civil War

6 pages and 5 sources. This paper outlines the experiences of Black Americans before and after 1865, relating to the changes that...

Societal Impacts and Influences of American Warfare

In nine pages the ways in which war influenced and impacted the society of early America are considered in a discussion of the Ame...