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Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

In six pages this essay compares the dreams of each of these African American activists. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Males with Disabilities

and Program Participation data. According to this survey, there are about 4.2 million disabled African Americans in the United Sta...

Dialect Significance in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In twelve pages this research paper presents the argument that a greater appreciation of Hurston's classic novel can be acquired t...

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor and Issues of Gender and Race

In ten pages this African American feminist text is analyzed in its portrayal of gender and racial issues. Eight sources are list...

God Question As Approached by Howard Thurman

In five pages this paper examines how African American author Howard Thurman deals with questions regarding God's nature and exist...

Coming of Age, a Fictional Rendition

This paper is a fictional account of a young African-American coming of age and his travels throughout South Africa and the US. Th...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

Civil Rights and the NAACP During the 1960s

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...

Caucasians and African Americans in Special Education

In six pages this paper discusses special education in terms of the number of African American and Caucasian students in such prog...

African American Organ Donation and Influential Factors

In six pages the various factors that influence the donation of organs by African Americans are discussed along with ways in which...

Hybrids of Black Music

In five pages the concept of hybrid is examined as it leads into a discussion of the development of African American musical hybri...

Psychiatry's Impact on African Americans

This research paper addresses how African Americans have been misdiagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The writer relates ...

Walker's Everyday Use Compared with Welty's A Worn Path

Wangero Leewanika (formerly known as "Dee") cannot see them as such anymore than the people "Aunt Phoenix" encounters on her walk ...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's Trial Coverage

This paper contrasts and compares African American and mainstream media's depictions of 'Hurricane' Carter's trial in eight pages....

Foundation of African America and Strengths of Black Culture

In a paper that consists of sixteen pages African American families and the cultural strengths they represent are discussed. Ten ...

Post 1970 Texas Law Enforcement Brutality

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

Fetal Cocaine Exposure and Legal Action Consideration

In twelve pages this paper considers the exposure of a fetus to cocaine in a socioeconomic study of an African American mother in ...

Poverty, African Americans, and Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper discusses the connection between poverty, African Americans, and substance abuse in a consideration that ...

Moving Mountains by Leon Sullivan

In eight pages this autobiography by General Motor's first African American board member is reviewed and his global corporate infl...

Comparative Analysis of Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Maya Angelou's 'Africa'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the ways in which Africa is portrayed in the respective poems but how both poets empl...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

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

In five pages this paper contrasts these differing views on Reconstruction by these important African American icons. Six sources...

Harlem's Poet Laureate Langston Hughes

of poetry, ten collections of short fiction, two novels, two volumes of autobiography, nine books for children and more than two d...

Our Kind of People Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known for his provocative New Y...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

Countee Cullen's 'Heritage' and African American Ancestry Perceptions

widely differing cultures. The very first line of "Heritage", a line that asks "What is Africa to me", reveals the nature of the ...

Civil Rights Movement and the Role of African American Women

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...