African American actors play the voices of Mufasa, Sarabi, and Nala, yet the hyenas are the only ones who speak with African American vernacular English. ... Based on Schiffman's theory of foreign language usage in cinema, the accents are intended to add flavor to the characters (Schiffman). ... " In part due to its setting in Africa, the hyena's segregation mimics Apartheid South Africa. ... Amina Luqman's African American son struggled with the same issue. ... The misrepresentation of African Americans in Dumbo is starkly similar to the misrepresentation of African Americ...

• Word Count: 1585
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I will be doing an essay on African American theater history. ... The term "African American Literature" is understood by most as Sub-Saharan (East and West) Africa. The primary source of language for this literature is European not Africa, which is also known as radical anomaly. African participants in colonial administrations in Africa began producing written works of literature in European languages. ... Most of their plays address issues of race, sex, politics, and gender, using music, humor and adult language. ...

• Word Count: 1283
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• Grade Level: High School

During the slave trade beginning in the 15th century, African people were forcefully torn from the continent of Africa and force to lose their culture, in turn to accept what ever the whites offered, for instance the names Negro, coon, jigaboo, pickaninny, nigger, and nigga. The Europeans or (whites) who controlled the slave trade realized that he had to strip the Africans or (black people) of all culture such as original names, languages, and religion. ... In order to accomplish that, they outlawed anything and everything belonging to or identified with African culture and forced them to acce...

• Word Count: 1650
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As an African American, There are countless ways we are stereotyped in aspects of language, cuisine, social habits, religion and music. ... African Americans are shown to speak a different type of "language" that some people don't consider English. ... The Media describes African American to lack good social skills. African Americans are shown to be disrespectful. ... Religion is shown to be a big deal to African Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1431
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A Comparison of Native American and African American Cultures Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. Each group has had their own unique languages, familial relationships, social relations, music and dance traditions, they have shared many common experiences over the past 400 years (Grim, 1995).This paper will compare the cultures and histories of African American and Native American people and their long and often bloody interactions with the white majority in America. ... African American Hi...

• Word Count: 2111
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"It is hatred of one person by another -- or the belief that another person is less than human -- because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person" (Perry 2). ... A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... In recent news, an article came out involving three African Americans and the network ABC. ... The agency did a casting call for African American men are "nice loo...

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The message that Alice is conveying is that through racism and the African-American culture, many times African-American men felt inferior to Europeans. Also, within African-American culture both African-Americans and European men looked down upon African-American females. ... As Quincy said language is like a body, renew it and make it better, as language is life. ... Living language in this case means that the language is flexible and yet still traditional. ... This kind of language that is used in the book is similar to the language of people from the South. ...

• Word Count: 1724
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet published in the United States. ... It speaks of slavery as being a positive advancement for Africans. ... She preserved through being kidnapped from Africa and bought into slavery in America, to become the first African American poet published in the United States. ... The same language available for her to use in her poems and letters, was the same language that whites utilized to keep her enslaved. Wheatley's skillfully chose to write in a level that was at her audience's caliber; "and it must be borne in mind that she was nei...

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Growing up, I only had interest in guys that were African-American. ... It is so much easier dating someone who is African-American because whether you're a light-skin or dark-skin African-American, you still get the same treatment from everyone else who are against interracial relationships. ... The main character Calegero lived in a time where African-Americans and Italians, like himself despised each other. ... As a child, my aunt who is African American, was taught to love everyone she meets in her life no matter what color their skin is, what language they speak, and even the clothe...

• Word Count: 1895
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American writer of sixteen collections of poetry, four collections of short stories, and four novels (Miller 393). ... Paul Laurence Dunbar is a well know African American, classical poet of the nineteenth century, who writes poems in standard English or black dialect, seeks to recreate the Negro, and cries out to freedom form slavery to all of the Negroes who read his work. ... It is said that Dunbar played an important role in the evolution of the African - American short stories along with his large collection of poetry. ... Just...

• Word Count: 1623
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Abstract Hip-Hop has long been demonized for its militant language and outlawed narrative as a part of American society. ... " It is a nuanced soul of black folks, undoubtedly an essence of African-American culture and authenticity. ... But long before then African traditions established the use of spoken word. ... Imani Perry asserts that the spoken word of African-American music has its origins in Africa and survived the middle passage to the Western Hemisphere (Perry, 2004). ... Its primary language is African American Vernacular English 2. ...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, sixty percent of photographs and video footage covering poverty depict African Americans although only 29% of the African American population are poor. Due to these misrepresentations, citizens usually overestimate the proportion of poor African Americans. ... Surveys display that African Americans prefer to live in racially integrated neighborhoods more than Whites do. ... Three essential behavioral factors are communication competence in the languages of both cultures, having a wide repertoire of social skills in both cultures, and social support from family/friends from both...

• Word Count: 1414
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An African American movement was on its way. ... The African Americans were being recognized in the American society. ... They gave expression and meaning to the African American experience. ... It also attracted society towards African American literature. ... Morison explains that the main viewpoint is "cultural distinction" and the difference in language and the way it is portrayed. ...

• Word Count: 2368
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Maya Angelou's was an African American, thus shared the totality of meanings, ideas, and beliefs with the black Americans. ... As an African American, Maya experienced racial discrimination in Arkansas. ... In her poem titled Phenomenal Woman, Angelou expresses and emphasizes self-empowerment to the African American women that goes beyond conventional beauty. ... This includes the oppression of African Americans including some of the people who the media during this period presented as criminals, such as drug pushers, welfare mothers, and prostitutes among others. in her writings, Angelou...

• Word Count: 1524
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In the stories "Raymond's Run" and "Gorilla My Love," Toni Cade Bambara, writes about unusual heroines - both called Hazel. However the character in "Raymond's Run," is known as and is referred to as Squeaky, mainly because of her voice, and because of the way that she is presented. To the reader, i...

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• Grade Level: High School

His achievements in government had cleared a path for other African Americans to follow. ... Frederick Douglass would encourage many more African Americans to fight for the Union Army, "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.... ... Nearly two hundred thousand African Americans were estimated to have served the United States Army and Navy by the end of the civil war. ... Not only did these achievements pave the way for other African Americans to follow, but they also weakened the stereotype that African American people are an inferior and sub-human type of being. ... After th...

• Word Count: 1350
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Africans were immediately labeled with terms including savage and heathen. ... It is important to address the notion that at first contact, the English did not prejudge the African as English slaves but rather met the Africans merely as another sort of men (Jordan 4). ... The Mammy reiterated the idea that black was ugly, a notion that can be dated back to first African contact by the English. ... The Coon emerged as "no-account niggers, those unreliable, crazy, lazy, subhuman creatures goo...

• Word Count: 1938
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The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social growing of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920s and 1930s. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book-buying public. ... Hughes writes about African-American people all over the world. ... Both stories are also written using the same language. ... The language in this poem paints a morbid picture of a racist south. ...

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Context The term "civil rights movement" refers to the collective efforts of African Americans to advance in American society. ... African American men and women, along with whites, organized and led the movement at national and local levels. ... •In his letter, king states the growing impatience of African Americans. ... •King goes on and gives a series of reasons why African American Community can no longer wait for freedom. ... • Evaluation Throughout the letter, King uses peaceful language and religious imagery to argue his points. ...

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"Yea further, when I view that mighty son of Africa, Hannibal, one of the greatest generals of antiquity, who defeated and cut off so many thousands of the white Romans or murderers, and who carried his victorious arms, to the very gate of Rome, and I give it as my candid opinion, that had Carthage been well united and had given him good support, he would have carried that cruel and barbarous city by storm. ... Walker's book was not so much about himself or his specific charge to black men except as an example of the intersection of race, gender, and language, especially in ...

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The influence of the African-American arts and writing gave James Baldwin the confidence to become an African-American writer. ... Harlem was an area where many African-Americans resided. ... While in Paris, Baldwin became close friends with many people of African decent and Algerian immigrants. ... Because of these situations and conflicts he felt he was the victim not only of cultural and language misunderstandings but also of racism. ... When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 Baldwin lost all hope for African-Americans. ...

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To trace gospel music you would have to go back to the African roots of song. ... John Lovell lists the purposes of the spiritual in this way: To give the community a true, valid, and useful song To keep the community invigorated To inspire the uninspired individual To enable the group to face its problems To comment on the slave situation To stir each member to personal solutions and to a sense of belonging in the midst of a confusing and terrifying world To provide a code language for emergency use (John Lovell, Black Song: The Forge and the Flame) Thomas Andrew D...

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Where does that leave African Americans, who when this was published, had just been absolved from slavery thirty years prior? ... African Americans show one side of the darkness of this idealism of Americanization. ... Even though the North during the Civil War helped them escape, they didn't want them in their neighborhoods, used rude language and slurs, and when they were offered jobs, the pay was horrible, not enough for a place to stay, food, or really any necessities. ... The dehumanization of African Americans is completely horrific, and sadly, it is not the only terrible reality th...

• Word Count: 1871
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African Americans were segregated and moved into slums. ... In 1950 a major slum program began to displace African American families who were excluded from much of the available housing. ... African Americans made up 85% of CHA residents, 15% were white, and 10% were Latinos. ... The Federal housing act of 1934 provided mortgage guarantees and low or no down payments almost exclusively for suburban development that excluded African-Americans. Language in the FHA manual to banks reinforced discrimination of the real-estate industry by stating "If a neighborhood is to retain stability It is nece...

• Word Count: 1487
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After nearly two centuries of discrimination, African Americans took their first steps in achieving racial equality through the Civil Rights movement of the mid 50's and early 60's. ... Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X fight for freedom, but they use completely different styles of language to persuade their audience. ... What Malcolm X means by this is that violence is the only way that the African-Americans and other minorities will gain their human rights. ... X is falsely reporting that his people care enough to rise with the African-Americans in this revolution that Ma...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School