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  • African American Stereotypes

    African American Stereotypes

    For many years the entertainment industry has been heavily criticized, particularly by groups representing various minorities, for the way ethnic groups have been portrayed in films and television programs. Although considerable progress has been made in the fight against unfair and unflattering portrayals based on false information, nevertheless the mass media is often still guilty of insensitivity in this area. African Americans as a group have been primarily stereotyped as animalistic brutes in American culture:

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • African American History

    African American History

    African American History I INTRODUCTION African American History or Black American History, a history of black people in the United States from their arrival in the Americas in the 15th century until the present day. In 1996, 33.9 million Americans, about one out of every eight people in the United States, were black. Although blacks from the West Indies and other areas have migrated to the United States in the 20th century, most African

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Yan
  • The African American Mosaic

    The African American Mosaic

    The African American Mosaic This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals,

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • African American Folktales

    African American Folktales

    African American Folktales African American folktales were ways of experiencing ideas, emotions and stories. It was illegal for slaves to talk to each other so they used metaphorical characters to relate to themselves. The most common character was the rabbit that was thought to always be able to trick anyone bigger and stronger than its opponent. By writing these stories, formal slaves were able to give us a great amount of their history. African American

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Artur
  • Insights About the African and African American According to Achebe and Douglass

    Insights About the African and African American According to Achebe and Douglass

    Insights about the African and African American according to Achebe and Douglass Throughout the years, the image of the African American culture has been portrayed in in a negative light. Many people look to African, and African American literature to gain knowledge about the African American culture. The true culture and image often goes unseen, or is tarnished because writers who have no true insight or experience, have proceeded to write about things in

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Vika
  • African American

    African American

    Abstract In this paper, we will attempt to examine some of the issues troubling African-American family. The areas examine were environmental issues, relationships, health matters and educational challenges. We will also explore possible solutions to each one of these topics. Intro There are many problems facing the African-American family in today's society. The topics that have been chosen are from our personal thoughts and experiences. This team believes that they are prevalent in the African-American

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Edward
  • African American Experience

    African American Experience

    African American Experience African Americans lived differently than white men did during the turn of the century. They faced many problems within the society. Some of the issues they faced were out of their hands. Although things were not the greatest all the time, there were supporters and organizations that they could turn to. Along with these organizations they had leaders that tried to help the race. Many African Americans became successful in the late

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: regina
  • State and Federal Legislation Affecting African Americans and Farmers During 1880-1920

    State and Federal Legislation Affecting African Americans and Farmers During 1880-1920

    The turn of the twentieth century brought profound changes to millions of Americans, and African Americans and farmers were no exception. Crop failures, economic hardships, and the failures of Reconstruction stimulated a Great Migration of southern blacks to northern cities. Racism and a glutted labor market prevented many African Americans from attaining the better life they sought. Despite these setbacks, they established new cultural institutions and modified older ones to meet the needs of urban

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: July
  • Brown V the Board of Eddecision and Impact on African Americans

    Brown V the Board of Eddecision and Impact on African Americans

    Brown V. The Board of Education Education has long been regarded as a valuable asset for all of America's youth. Yet, for decades, the full benefits of education were denied to African Americans as a result of the prevailing social condition of Jim Crowism. Not until the verdict in Brown V the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, would this denial be acknowledged and slowly dismantled. Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Jessica
  • African American Problems

    African American Problems

    I think I finally found out what it means when a parent quotes this famous” a hard head makes a soft behind or you will surely find out the hard way”. Early on my grandmother would always try to steer from down the path I was headed, but see myself I had other plans. At sixteen I wasn’t worried about the right things, at that age I was more concerned about three things and not

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Top
  • African-American Contributions to American Culture

    African-American Contributions to American Culture

    Throughout America’s growth and expansion, people, among other factors, have played a key role in contributing to American culture. Just by living their day-to-day lives, people have been a part of America’s history. Some people, however, have lived lives that have had a greater impact on this history. One of these people is Frederick Douglass. Through his abolitionist movements, Frederick Douglass has made a very important contribution to American culture. Born February 14, 1818, Frederick

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Max
  • African American Juveniles

    African American Juveniles

    Every night when the news comes on African Americans are constantly reminded of the rise in crime. The worst part of this is most of the crime such a robbery, theft, homicide, and the selling of illegal drugs are being committed by children younger than the age seventeen ( H. Morrison 2003). There is much more behind a juvenile committing the crime than just because they felt like doing it. There are such factors such

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: David
  • African American Reconstruction

    African American Reconstruction

    Prior to the Civil War, African Americans were treated as second class individuals. They lacked the freedom and equality they sought for. To the African Americans, the Civil War was a war of liberation. Contrary to what African Americans perceived, Southerners viewed the war as an episode of their journey to salvation. Southern lands may have been destroyed and depleted, but the South was persistent that their racial order would not be disrupted. To most,

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Tommy
  • 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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    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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    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
  • 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

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