Hughes word choice in his list of similarities is meant to go from simple human nature/needs to more opinionated interests, showing that through our deepest roots we are like. everyone must eat, sleep, drink, and can feel love. then knocks down the racial stereotype that blacks lack work ethic, can't read, (thinking they are not smart enough) and have awareness of how life is meant to be. finishing with interests that usually come with ones culture; Bessie and bop usually being interests of an african american (1) fitting into what a white man would expect of him but surprises people with...

• Word Count: 1440
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• Grade Level: High School

Once IM leaves the Men's House, he spots a black man named Peter Wheatstraw, who is the first one who brings IM back to his southern roots by asking him questions in a less educated manner, similar to the way that African Americans spoke in the south. Wheatstraw purposefully acts this way because he is hoping it will remind IM of his "southern folk roots.... " Since the beginning of the book, IM wishes not to relive the past because he is ashamed, yet Wheatstraw indirectly lets him know that his black roots will always be apart of him. ...

• Word Count: 1967
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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...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People who are fond of creating generalizations are those who wish to fit the story into a neat, little box. Those people that make generalizations might tell us that a piece of fiction must have one or more characters with whom the reader can relate to. The reason being the person on the page is li...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict, aside from the Civil War, to occur in the history of mankind. It was a war waged on land, sea and air that lasted for approximately six years. Cities lay in ruins due to aerial bombing and hometown battles, which spread destruction over l...

• Word Count: 1278
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• Grade Level: High School

Racial discrimination is a crucial element of American civilization. Even after African-Americans gained their freedom from slavery after the end of the Civil War, they still faced a strong racial prejudice from the majority of white people throughout the nation, since the 13th Amendment of the Unit...

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• Has Bibliography

Slavery and the American Experience More than any other history of race relations in America, the struggle between white and black Americans is by the far the most complex and long standing. Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Af...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Shifting of Class and Color lines in the South: A Look at the Impact of the Civil War The Civil War did more than its share of turning worlds around. Throughout the United States there was a reformation of class structure that was not just reserved for the newly freed black population: the a...

• Word Count: 1688
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Tar Baby," by Toni Morrison, manages numerous issues and subjects. However the focal point of the novel is the contention between its fundamental characters Jadine and Son. Really, the author has figured out how to portray an incomprehensible circumstance when two persons adore one another, or they...

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The novel "Black Boy," written by Richard Wright takes you back in the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by hard discipline. It seemed that the more Richard had gained in life, the more he was hurt. Richard was alienated from his environmen...

• Word Count: 1641
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

For years experts have argued over the topic of how evils we have committed in the past affect us currently. One specific evil that garners a large amount of attention is slavery. While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even toda...

• Word Count: 1706
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to capture and illuminate the hardship and bitterness African American women had to face in the early 1900s. Walker's story is filled with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, physical abuse and verbal abuse, prejudice, the oppression of women,...

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For a while now African Americans have been searching for acceptance among society. Through modernism, many of today's innovative ideas have developed. Modernism is a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas. However, if any of those new ideas were to perhaps com...

• Word Count: 1517
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Cultural Divide By Courtney Ulrich Throughout history, the clash of contrasting cultures has never resulted in a positive conclusion, but rather racial segregation and the arrogant use of stereotypes in all aspects of life. Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil,...

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The pass system despite it having age old roots within South Africa from the early days of colonization to control the movements of slaves took a new form in the few years before apartheid and during apartheid. ...

• Word Count: 2088
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Oppression and marginalization of youth minorities over thirty years ago had led to the creation of the music and culture that is known as Hip-hop. Experiences of discrimination and hardship translated into rhythm and poetry became the widely renowned music genre that the world has come to know. Hip-hop stands today as a global icon and a redefining phenomenon that garner a huge audience with high levels of interest. With Hip-hop's increasing popularity, the reception of this culture has been widely interpreted by diverse audiences of different races and is highly relevant in terms of its...

• Word Count: 2033
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. The story is told through the life of a little girl, Scout Finch, and her relationship with the main characters her brother, Jem, father, Atticus, friend, Dill housekeeper, Calpurnia, and her dealings with the township people and events that happen in her town. It highlights racism, prejudice, injustice, socioeconomic status, ignorance and tolerance. In the 1930, actual events that were happening in the country included the Gr...

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

Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. Most of the chapters progressed chronologically ...

• Word Count: 1854
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate