UNIA was started to help promote blacks in everyone's eyes so that they wouldn't have to be "at the mercy of white people."" ... UNIA also set up a steamship company called Black Star Line. ... The Black Star Line helped the blacks mainly because it provided employment and a source of income. ... The Black Star Line consisted of 3 ships: the Yarmouth, the Shadyside, and the Kanahawa. ... In 1922, Garvey and three officers of the Black Star Line were arrested and charged for mail fraud. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Those few years of lost herding opened James Baldwins' eyes to the fact that he was in need of soul searching. ... In Card's novel, Ender's Game, the reader is forced to see and think through the eyes and ears of a yo0ung genius, Ender Wiggin. In Lucas' trilogy, Star Wars, he use such characters as extra-terrestrials to make the audience think of and respond to normally taboo subjects (such as ethnic tolerance and ethnocentricity). ...

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

Maid in Manhattan, a film starring Jennifer Lopez, induced an array of outlooks and identifications in me. ... Going back to a reading I formerly read, The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media by Stuart Hall, I noticed the racism of pop culture today in this film. ...

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"Generally, he was a harmless, little screwball creation whose eyes popped, whose hair stood on end with the least excitement, and whose antics were pleasant and diverting.""... The archetypes of the 20's and thirties were no longer acceptable, and the few Hollywood "race films- (which usually starred Sidney Poitier), were no longer adequate. ...

• Word Count: 1420
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gaines was a tall and well built man with large brown eyes and a well - being man who is treated with respect. ... In 1971 he wrote the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, made by CBS into the Emmy Awards winning television film starring Cicely Tyson. ...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School