Through the examination of various sources and opinions, a wide array of positions on this critical topic can be found. ... While during the 1960s and 70s affirmative action was critical to overcome racial barriers, since that time period the positive effects of affirmative action have lessened. ... And gaining entry to America's elite universities is difficult; the perception, right or wrong, that race can in some circumstances trump merit strikes many as unjust, not least because universities play a large role in social mobility. " The main problem with affirmative action in today&#x...

• Word Count: 1270
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The paper presents an analysis of Maya Angelou through researching her cultural context and how it helps readers to understand her work, influences among writers, her writing style applied to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her theories about literature and writing, and critical reception of the writers work. ... Through her cultural context, influence from other writers, writing style, and her theories about literature and writing, Angelou managed to write poems that inspired and still inspire people despite the critical reception towards her work....

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and rep...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and rep...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Albert King once stated: "The Blues its twelve-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization and trouble, which are always present, and always the result of others, pressing upon unfortunate and down trodden poor souls." The music within the novel "Beloved" presses upon the reader's own emotional boundaries by presenting to us the treatment of slaves through an entirely different medium; not only through language but through sound; through the "soul" of those who give their voice melody. It further accumulates within Toni M...

• Word Count: 3100
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

The Octoroon, only considered second amongst antebellum melodramas, is a play written by Irish author Dion Boucicaut. The play focuses on the Plantation Terrebonne, the Peyton estate and its residents, namely it's slaves. During the time of its premiere, The Octoroon, inspired conversations about the abolition of slavery as well as the overall mistreatment of the African Americans. Derived from the Spanish language, the word 'octoroon' is defined as one who is 1/8th black. Zoe Peyton, "The Octoroon", is the supposedly "freed" biological daughter of Judge Pey...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This was written as an analysis of the Atlanta child murders of 1979 and 1980. ... It also called the African American man to the civil rights battlefield and forced the white man to look at and analyze himself through a critical looking glass. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One critical effort began in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, when a black activist named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. ... Precision, production, craft, and repair If an analysis was done to compare the statistical measures of today, verses that during the 1930, during the Great Depression, the numbers would be off the chart. ...

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Self-inflicted Prejudice and Pain In The Blacker the Berry, Wallace Thurman makes a critical analysis of the racially divided American society of the 1920's through the self-inflicted color prejudices of a young black woman. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance wa...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the nature of the sea and its meaning. ... In his analysis of a slave ship, in 1829, the Reverend Robert Walsh pointed out that "The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18 and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls, into the second t...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in America. ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate