Popular culture materials and commercial images are also very valuable tools for exploring the cultural constructs that framed the lives and experiences of African-American women. Because popular and commercial materials were created and disseminated to large segments of American culture, they served both to reflect and to perpetuate a range of race, gender, and class stereotypes and/or fears. Popular images of African-American women can be found in a variety of forms such as advertisements, postcards, calendars, letterhead, popular art work, sheet music, post cards, greeting cards, and other ...

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Some of the most popular artist was Palmer Hayden, James Van Der Zee, Lois Mailou Jones, and William H. ... James Van Der Zee (1889-1983) was the most popular African-American photographer of that time. ...

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Many black American activists became increasingly popular during this time period, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois were the most prominent. ... The beginning of the movement in 1848 was marked by the Seneca Falls Convention, where its most prominent leaders Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. ... The most recognized muckrakers of the Progressive Era were Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell. ... Unlike most Republicans, who largely ignored economic and social inequalities, Roosevelt acknowledged them. ...

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Alan Freeman took few of the most obvious and visible examples from some of the most famous Supreme Court cases and split them into two perspectives. ... Full denial of the facts in hand had been clearly ignored by most people. ... In one of the most noted cases of Firefighters vs. ... They were designed to govern movement, marriage, work relations, and most major aspects of freed person's life. ... A lot of private firms and individuals sponsored these cases, demonstrations were also popular, riots, political scandals, affirmative action, Martin Luther King were all examples of how both...

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Black Psychology Black psychology in itself is a rich existing area field. Although many argue that it does not exist, the reality is different. Black psychology is as defined by Karenga "...essentially the science that systematically studies behavior in its relationship to the complexity of men...

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Langston Hughes, a man of many things Langston Hughes is a standout amongst the most surely understood African American artist and short story authors in our nation today. ... One of those such men was James Smethurst with his writings titled, "The Adventures of a Social Poet: Langston Hughes from the Popular Front to Black Power.... Langston Hughes may have exceptionally well been one of the world's most remarkable Negro creators of the twentieth century, yet on the other hand nobody is immaculate; everybody has imperfections. ... As I stated before for most African Americans Langst...

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Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent poets of his era and his works are still read and studied today. ... Two of the most popular narratives of that era were Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave" and Harriet Jacob's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." ...

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Affirmative action is the nation's most ambitious attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. ... This decision has been popular, because it seems like a reasonable enough compromise between the view that reverse racial favoritism is unobjectionable and the view that it is offensive in any form. ... The refusal of most affirmative action supporters to acknowledge this unavoidable logical truth " their naive or cynical embrace of Justice Lewis Powell's wiggy notion in Bakke that quotas are bad but race-as-a-factor is OK (because they d...

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Gender discrimination prevented most women from participating in areas traditionally dominated by men, and basketball was no exception. ... Players are remembered for their missed shots, letting their team down when needed most, and most important their weaknesses. ... One of the most famous court cases in history, Plessey v. ... Women's basketball was very popular. ... At most white colleges, the idea of varsity basketball clashed with the visions of ladylike gentility that they wished their students to embody, and competition was thus limited to intramurals, the faculty at many African ...

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Betye Saar inspects her roots by looking at popular representations of the black female in America and incorporates her own ideas by turning the woman (Aunt Jamaima) into a warrior with modern western weapons in her hands. ...

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Most of the chapters progressed chronologically with each example firmly showing proof for whatever it was he was out to claim. ... Chapter One introduced Daniel O"Connell who was described as being, "the most popular figure in Ireland and among the Irish throughout the world". ... The factories did not seem to discriminate at first; they just hired the most skilled workers who happened to be mostly white. ...

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Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. ... Although several commentators have voiced criticisms with the ideas of Professor Butler, most of these criticisms focus on what is best for the American legal system, what legal precedents dictate, or as is most often the case, on what is "right." ... Alt...

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Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. ... Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of the newfound sense of purpose and activism was the popularity of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). ... Secondly, the publication of Nigger Heaven (1926) by white novelist Carl Van Vechten was a surprisingly popular exposé of Harlem life. ...

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The 1830 publication of the "Book of Mormon" by Joseph Smith, officially established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that Smith, under divine guidance, translated a set of golden plates into the Book of Mormon. This was the first of several literary works that were said to contain proper doctrine of the beliefs and views of the Mormon religion. Throughout the development of the Church, several aspects of the Mormon religion have caused many of its members to be persecuted by outside parties. During the last half of the nineteen...

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Between 2000 and 2009, "A Time to Kill" was among the most frequently banned books, ranking 67th place. ... RACIAL ISSUES DISCUSSED IN THE BOOK While Grisham critizises numerous aspects of the American legal system and the society in general, the most prominent issues are race-related. This part will look at the three most salient racial points raised in the novel and compare them against today's reality in Mississippi where "A Time to Kill" is set and other southern US-States. ... Most white protagonists, however, are working in white-collar jobs. ... The most extreme...

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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... I most agree with Ward who stated "although slavery is buried...Jim Crow is very much alive19" as it demonstrates effective equality was not gained in the "de jure" or "de facto" sense during the Reconstruction era as the introduction of Black Codes severely limited progress towards effective equality. ...

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