And it was there in the bath, with his words and her voice, that I had my body-double moment: here I was in Leukerbad, with Bessie Smith singing across the years from 1929; and I am black like him; and I am slender; and have a gap in my front teeth; and am not especially tall (no, write it: short); and am cool on the page and animated in person, except when it is the other way around; and I was once a fervid teen-age preacher (Baldwin: "Nothing that has happened to me since equals the power and the glory that I sometimes felt when, in the middle of a sermon, I knew that I was somehow, by ...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I am a 19-year-old Caucasian male in America and that is how the community sees me. ... In the beginning of the film he and one of his associates try to book time in a recording studio to cut their first record, but the white owner of the recording studio does not like the idea. It is not until they bring a white lawyer into the studio with them to negotiate that they are finally able to get in and record. ...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

" Other meanings are used on government forms, as when Americans record which race they belong to for the U.S. ... Gill states that "I am more accurate at assessing race from skeletal remains than from looking at living people standing before me" (Gill). ... The last perspective I am going to talk about is that of Professors Michael Omi and Howard Winant. ... After countless hours researching, I feel as though I am educated enough to form my own opinion about this topic. ... To further verify this point, I am going to examine the blood disorder, sickle cell anemia. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

As defined in the Webster dictionary, apartheid is a system of racial segregation peculiar to the Republic of South Africa, the legal basis of which they largely repealed in 1991 to 1992. The apartheid began when Daniel F. Malan was elected into the government in 1948, and he put the apartheid into ...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In her book, Red Record, Wells writes, "The southern white man would not consider that the Negro had any right which a white man was bound to respect," Towards the end of the passage, she continues "We plead not for the colored people alone, but for all the victims of the terrible injustice which puts men and women to death without form of law." ... A black teacher in the south writes "I am compelled to teach 150 children without assistance and receive only $27.00 a month, the white with 30 get $100." ...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. ... "I am the only colored student in my class.... I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach," (3). ... "You are white--- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. ...

• Word Count: 1440
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He had, " no accurate knowledge of [his] age, never having seen any authentic record containing it" (20). ... Douglass recorded his life, and in doing so, documented the reality of slavery. ... The slaves sang songs of happiness and greatness: "I am going away to Great House Farm! ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. ... I am the only colored student in my class. ... I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records--Bessie, bop, or Bach. ... You are white-- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. ... He tells his professor that he is "a part of me, as I am a part of you (line 33)" and it is this part of him which doesn't allow him to fit snugly into the mold of a Harlemite or a "colored" person. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. ... I am the only colored student in my class. ... I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records--Bessie, bop, or Bach. ... You are white-- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. ... He tells his professor that he is "a part of me, as I am a part of you (line 33)" and it is this part of him which doesn't allow him to fit snugly into the mold of a Harlemite or a "colored" person. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is the sentiment of the protagonist in the novel, in which he narrates: "I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." ... The environment where society dictates what is right and appropriate and discredits an entire race as immoral and wrong does not only exists in the throngs of the imagination of the author, Ralph Ellison, but an undeniable truth recorded in the strands of time. ...

• Word Count: 1723
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At Pasadena Junior College Robinson set a National Junior College record in the long jump of 25' 6 ½- (Ringer 22). ... "I know that I am a black man in a white world I know that I never had it made-, was a famous quote from Robinson (234). ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

My American dream has been influenced by the problems, and circumstances that I have gone through in my life. Moving to the United States was one of the biggest circumstances that influenced my American dream because I came with the idea that this was the land of opportunities but when we arrived to...

• Word Count: 2444
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I don't regret a thing about the way I was raised, because that's what made me into the respectful and intelligent man that I am today. ... I am not saying you cannot store the energy, but how long can that energy be administered? Maybe I am wrong, or maybe the houses with the solar energy systems are built with an alternating current. ...

• Word Count: 3405
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

"I am the dream and the hope of the slave. ... In chapter two of WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER, the passage briefly describes how poorly records were kept and how flexible history was of manipulating the law to directly discriminate against African-Americans. ... The texts of the records were very negligent (they used lax phrases such as "friendless boys and girls"), and very few of the crimes (rape, sexual exploits, beatings) in where African-Americans were victims were ever reported or recorded (2-33, W&W). ... It's a shame, because publications like these still go recorded in history and t...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

In the 1920s following World War I, an entire generation of Afro-Americans moved to the north of the United States, to Harlem, considered as the greatest Black city in the world. This generation, known as the Harlem renaissance, was enlightened by folk sources such as black music and black literatur...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Canada is a place full of cultural wealth. Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. One race that had a significant role in the construction, molding and forming of Canada is the Black people and they really are not ever shown any gratitude for what they have done. This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. They did so much for their country even when life was not fair to them. ...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ...

• Word Count: 3198
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School