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  • The Devaluation of African Americans

    The Devaluation of African Americans

    The first day of class at Clark Atlanta University , the professor sits the students down and tells them to be quiet. Then she tells them to look to the right and then to the left, to observe the students sitting next to them. “Do you see these people sitting beside you?” she asks. “At least one of you three will not make it to graduation. These are the statistics already stacked against you.”

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Voting Rights for African Americans

    Voting Rights for African Americans

    Alexis Augustin AAA S Malcolm X Survey Essay A Vote for a Better Future Black Americans of today need to register to vote and make use of their voting rights if they want to see a change to the current state of democracy. In the contemporary world of today Americans are said to be living in the most equal nation, one where its citizens are entitled to a variety of inalienable rights, one in particular

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Tasha
  • African Americans: Fighting for Their Rights

    African Americans: Fighting for Their Rights

    African Americans: Fighting For Their Rights During the mid 1950s to late 1960s African Americans started responding to the oppressive treatment shown to them by the majority of white people in the country. They responded to the segregation of blacks and whites during that time and the double standards the African Americans were held to. African Americans responded to their suppression by participating in boycotts, marches, sit-ins, and trying to get legislation passed so that

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • African American Advancement in Wwii

    African American Advancement in Wwii

    African Americans in WWII Considering that African Americans were under the constant pressure of racism and to prove public opinion wrong, they did an impressive job in their participation in the war. Although they had to fight to be included in the first place, the recognition they gained would set a precedent for other African Americans and change many of the misconceptions about them. By volunteering to help in the war, they showed their loyalty

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    Essay Length: 601 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Stenly
  • African-American Influence on American Literature

    African-American Influence on American Literature

    African-American Influence on American literature African American literature can be summarized as the writings of authors from African descent. In the United States, African descendents have had very different experiences from each others depending on where they lived. In the southern states of the United States, Blacks have been really oppressed until the Civil War, with the big part being illiterate well into the end of 1800. In the northern states ,Blacks had a considerable

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    Essay Length: 521 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • African American Soldiersin the Civil War

    African American Soldiersin the Civil War

    In the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of the Nineteenth Century the White people of North America used the Black people of Africa as slaves to benefit their interests. White people created a climate of superiority of their race over the Black African race that in some places, still lingers on today. The American Civil War however, was a key turning point for the Black African race. Through their actions and the political actions of President

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Bred
  • America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson

    America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson

    America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson Beunkia Bowens History of Black Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Dr. Juliet E. K. Walker December 1, 2005 Bowens 2 Introduction Robert Johnson was the first black American to achieve billionaire status after selling Black Entertainment Television to Viacom. The purpose of this paper is to look at Robert Johnson as the Black entrepreneur. Johnson is as an example of a new Black entrepreneur: he achieved his wealth primary through

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • African Americans Deserve Repartions

    African Americans Deserve Repartions

    African Americans Deserve Reparations. The purpose of this research study will be to explain why I think African Americans deserve Reparations. Africa, before so many of their beautiful people were stolen by the European who viewed them as a great source of economic growth for their colonization project. African were even sent many to other parts of the Middle East, and Europe, the Caribbean, an also in South America. Although this research has explored how

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Obesity in African American Women

    Obesity in African American Women

    Review of Literature Introduction Despite the well-publicized health and emotional consequences of obesity, a successful weight-loss industry, and a high rate of voluntary dieting, the prevalence of obesity in African American women continued to increase. For the most part, African American women are aware of the serious health risks related to obesity. Honest attempts to diet and exercise properly usually resulted in gaining of the weight loss and additional pounds in the process. A limited

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Steve
  • Funeral Customs of African Americans and American Jews

    Funeral Customs of African Americans and American Jews

    Ў§The chaos of death disturbs the peace of the living. This unsettling fact of life has proven to be a rich source of inspiration for human efforts to find order in disorder, meaning in suffering, eternity in finitude. Religion, culture, social structures, the vitality of these rudimentary elements of communal life depends upon ritually putting the dead body in its place, managing the relations between the living and the dead and providing explanations for the

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Treatment of African Americans: 1865-1895

    Treatment of African Americans: 1865-1895

    During the span of thirty years from 1865 to 1895 blacks that lived within this time frame went through arguably the most profound series of events to occur in African American history. Southern blacks were faced with prejudice, bondage, slavery, and ultimately survival. Shortly after the thirteenth amendment was ratified, stating that: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Anna
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson

    Baseball has always been America’s national pastime. In the early and all the way into the mid 50’s, baseball was America and America was baseball. The only thing lacking in the great game was the absence of African American players and the presence of an all white sport. America still wasn’t friendly or accepted the African American race and many still held great prejudice towards them. All this would change when the general manager of

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Mikki
  • From Negro to African American

    From Negro to African American

    Robert Scoby University of Arizona Rev. Elwood McDowell From Negro to African American A New Psychological Approach This paper is dedicated and written for Elwood McDowell, a genius of immense originality whose ideas, scholarship, and deep intellect embody what is best in Afro-American Psychology …The Negro’s mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor…When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Recognizing Stereotypical Images of African Americans in Television and Movies

    Recognizing Stereotypical Images of African Americans in Television and Movies

    Contents of Curriculum Unit 96.03.05: * Narrative * Lesson Plan * Lesson Plan * Lesson Plan * Notes * Films * Television Shows * Children’s Reading List * Teachers Bibliography To Guide Entry The practice of racial stereotyping through the use of media has been used throughout contemporary history by various factions in American society to attain various goals. The practice is used most by the dominant culture in this society as a way of

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Effects of Slavery on the African American Family

    Effects of Slavery on the African American Family

    The effects of slavery on the African American family were tremendous. From slave mother's and father's having their children taken away and sold, to brother's and sister's being split apart, to having the actual slave-owner being the one to father children with slaves, to even say that African American families even existed might sound ridiculous. But they did exist; it just depends on what you might define as a "family". Slavery did not weaken or

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Vika
  • Jackie Robinson & the Fall of Bronzeville

    Jackie Robinson & the Fall of Bronzeville

    Jackie Robinson’s integration into baseball caused an economic vacuum that the African-American community is still trying to recover from. The case is so wide ranging one only need to look at one neighborhood to see all of the effects, the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s south side. Between 1910 and 1930 the black populations in the north rose about 20% on average. This was called “the great migration” in which African Americans ventured north to find

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Janna
  • Feminism and Racism in African American Literature

    Feminism and Racism in African American Literature

    Throughout literature, feminism and racism have played crucial roles in the lives of the characters and plotlines in stories and novels. Audiences are captivated by the drama a character must face in order to succeed in life or society. This struggle to overcome personal discrimination and adversity has transcended centuries and genres of literature. African American literature is no exception. Authors of African American literature would base the events that were taking place in the

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: regina
  • The African-American Odyssey

    The African-American Odyssey

    Eric D. Joseph May 9, 2006 Afro-Amer. Hist.4223 The African-American Odyssey The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868 The emancipation of the African slave who was now disconnected from their traditions and way of life after nearly 300 years, is seemingly a great gush from the dam to the ebbs and flows of the struggle. The end of slavery as we know it, presented a ball of mixed emotions among the nation; North and SOUTH. Some slaves

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Monika
  • African Americans Who Live in Low-Income Communities Are More Likely to Engage in Unprotected Sexual Activities Than Those Who Live in Higher-Income Communities

    African Americans Who Live in Low-Income Communities Are More Likely to Engage in Unprotected Sexual Activities Than Those Who Live in Higher-Income Communities

    African Americans who live in low-income communities are more likely to engage in unprotected sexual activities than those who live in higher-income communities. ii Table of Contents Chapter Page/s I. The Problem 1-2 II. Theoretical Framework 3-5 III. Hypothesis 6 IV. Population and Design 7-8 V. Conclusion 9-10 VI. Bibliography 11-12 1 I. Problem Little to nothing was known about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) when it first erupted in the 1970s. When the

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Tasha
  • African American Artists

    African American Artists

    The multi-talented Camille Billops has found many different ways to express her artistic ability throughout her career. Her works that were done throughout her career was an expression of her life. Throughout the life of Camille she had many influences leading her into the art world. This paper has the artist going through her life coming up through the world as a student to a teacher then artist, and her works making her a legend.

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    Essay Length: 1,421 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Monika
  • Are African Americans Still Oppressed?

    Are African Americans Still Oppressed?

    Are African Americans Still Oppressed? African Americans in society today like the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave are hostage to their own mentality. The two characteristics commonly shared between both is ignorance to reality and a reluctance to change. Thus in the essay the prisoners are locked and chained down in darkness with only a glow of light that allows for little sight. In turn objects placed in front of the glow cast

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: regina
  • African American Theatre

    African American Theatre

    Over the course of approximately one-hundred years there has been a discernible metamorphosis within the realm of African-American cinema. African-Americans have overcome the heavy weight of oppression in forms such as of politics, citizenship and most importantly equal human rights. One of the most evident forms that were withheld from African-Americans came in the structure of the performing arts; specifically film. The common population did not allow blacks to drink from the same water fountain

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • African American Self Sabotage - John McWhorters Losing the Race

    African American Self Sabotage - John McWhorters Losing the Race

    In Losing the Race, John McWhorter speaks about the “disease of defeatism that has infected black America.” In the novel he explores in detail three aspects of modern day black American cultural mentality, or "cults," that hold African Americans back. First, is the Cult of Victimology. In it, victimhood has been transformed “from a problem to be solved into an identity in itself.” Then there is the Cult of Separatism, in this cult, the uniqueness

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Wendy
  • African-American Church

    African-American Church

    Introduction There is great difficulty in defining the field of Cultural Studies, as it takes an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to studying the art, beliefs, politics, and institutions of ethnic cultures and pop culture. For the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham, one of the central goals of Cultural Studies was “to enable people to understand what (was) going on, and especially to provide ways of thinking, strategies for survival, and resources for resistance

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Monika
  • African American Identity

    African American Identity

    African American Identity It was a hot August day as sweat beat down on Thomas Jefferson Brown. He had been working in the field 2 hours before the hot sun had made its presence known. He looked back over the drying field, hoping that this crop would provide for his family better than last years crop had. Thomas watched his oldest son, Nathan, who worked down one row of the field while staring intently at

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    Submitted: April 3, 2010 By: Mike

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