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a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

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...

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

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

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

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...

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

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

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

that had been spurred by Genghis Khan in 1100 across Eurasia (Ferraro, 2006). The Ottoman Empire in the 1300s spanned "Europe, Nor...