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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...

Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder and the Richmond Slave Revolt of 1800

In eleven pages the differences between Bontemps' novel and other historical accounts of this slave revolt are examined. Six sour...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

The Harlem Renaissance and the Literature of Black America

of Education, which occurred a month after his death. Locke is considered to be an intellectual. He had no illusions about color...

Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...

The Mass Media and Black Americans

6 pages and 7 sources. This paper relates the fact that the mass media has promoted a variety of ways of viewing African American...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Marxist View of Black Violence

perspective, which draws on a Marxist perspective, as it examines patterns of "political, economic, social, and cultural organizat...

Black Masculinity

exhibit the most extreme misogynistic trends. Girls are often scantily clad, and dance provocatively. They are often dubbed "hoes"...

Washington & Du Bois/Who Was Right?

separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted by Du Bois 24). This "c...

Black Students Educational Achievement

programs for a specific race or ethnicity. The research question, by default, then, is: What types of educational programs help B...

Supermassive Black Holes

2005). Black holes are thought to have originated from the collapse of very large stars, but it is also hypothesized that mini bla...

Post Civil Rights Movement and Black Leadership

In a paper that consists of three pages the history of the U.S. black civil rights movement is examined in terms of mainstream soc...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

U.S. Black Political Power

grouped under the loose heading of "Jim Crow," not only forbade blacks from voting, but also segregated them from white citizens i...

Article Summaries on Cosmology and Black Holes

In five pages two articles about cosmology and black holes are reviewed....

A Revies of Black Picket Fences by Mary Pattillo McCoy

the opportunities that were available to the African American in the 1960s, in terms of employment, have changed drastically in th...

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

African American General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

In ten pages the many achievements of this celebrated U.S. general are discussed with his black military contributions also examin...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how black women's experiences are captured in Naylor's book Women of Brewster Plac...

White and Black Culture in Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's book Beloved exposes the way in which white culture dictates black identity....

The Black West by William Katz

simply slaves. They were not simply second rate human beings but have constantly played a very vital role in the history of the na...

Black Abolitionists by Benjamin Quarles

many different organizations, all the while also illustrating and supporting the truth that so many of the African Americans suppo...

Black Snow by Liu Heng

find it difficult to adjust. He has just gotten out of the prison camp and wanders the streets: "Ah, a good meal, of course. Now,...

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slavery as an 'Injurious' Institution

human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...