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African-Americans or Black-Americans?, 2007.
This paper examines the impact of family history stories on African-American students' attitude and behavior.
2,410 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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The paper explores whether documenting and researching Black-American history, especially individual family history, has an impact on Black-American students' attitude and behavior. The paper discusses the move away from an African-American identity to a distinctly Black-American identity. The paper relates that teaching the history and stories of Black-Americans has served to inspire and motivate Black-American students towards a more successful academic life. The paper concludes that Black-American students today are aware that their cultural heritage and tradition began in Africa, yet, informed with the stories of their past, their attitude is that they are predominantly Americans.
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Introduction
Background
Family and Community History and Student Attitudes and Behavior
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"The history of Black Americans is one that began as slavery and oppression. It is only during the twenty years that Black Americans have had the full range of education, opportunity, and social equality to partake in the American dream. It was a long road to that point, and there remain challenges to be overcome, but the road towards overcoming those remaining challenges began with America's Civil War and freeing Black Americans from the condition of slavery. Many have traveled the road on behalf of equality and Civil Rights, and the challenges that remain today are the social and psychological barriers that prevent Black Americans from embracing the opportunities that were hard won on their behalf."
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Treatment of African Americans and Native Americans in Colonial America, 2002.
This paper discusses the treatment of African Americans and Native Americans during Colonial times.
2,265 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 70.95
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This is a paper about the different treatments toward blacks and Native Americans in colonial America by whites. The author looks at the differences and the similarities in the way these two populations were treated.
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"In dealing with "outsiders", White Europeans who controlled the continent held many similar views. These outsiders included the Native Americans and the African Americans. Both peoples were treated in parallel and in opposing ways by the whites in power. The most obvious way that the two groups were treated the same is that they were dealt with in a very ethnocentric way; whites assumed that they were superior to both groups. Both groups were not dealt with in the same way from the onset. Native Americans, who were living in the country long before the whites, were killed, stripped of their land, and mislead as to their future in the new white world. Africans were brought into the country, a large distinction, because whites needed them here. They were at first used as indentured servants, and it was a gradual change that shifted over to slavery. From there on came restrictive legislature, and a view of them as savages. The two groups were both treated differently by whites in terms of how they were oppressed, but the overriding theme in both cases is that the white Europeans saw both as inferior races."
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African Americans, 2002.
A comparison of the portrayal of African Americans in "Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois with D.W. Griffith's 1915 film "Birth of a Nation".
754 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses how in his novel "The Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that the problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color-line and how written in 1903, Du Bois' analysis proved correct for the rest of the century, particularly the first two-thirds of the 20th Century when Hollywood films depicted blacks as inferiors. It shows how a comparison of his portrayal of African Americans with D.W. Griffith's 1915 landmark film "Birth of a Nation" reveals a vivid contrast in the depiction of African Americans. It looks at how Du Bois portrays African Americans as a people who experience racial suffering and injustices, but also as a people with great strengths and resources who must fight as opposed to the film industry which stereotyped them as ignorant savages or grinning, dancing stooges or people who could only hold menial jobs and who lacked morals and intellect.
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"Before the release of "Birth of a Nation" blacks remained for the large part politically indifferent to the derogatory images presented by the film industry. One historian attributes their lack of interest to the deep puritan fundamentalist roots that dismissed film as needless frivolity (Cripps 11). Another reason could be that African Americans had so many areas that required their attention that leaders did not have the time to deal with film. The depiction of African Americans in Hollywood films was horrific, with stereotypes of them as ignorant savages or grinning, dancing stooges or people who could only hold menial jobs and who lacked morals and intellect. D. W. Griffith, the single most influential director of his time, took the stereotypes even further in A Birth of a Nation,@ portraying African Americans as brutal, lusting menaces who represented a very real threat to society."
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African-Americans in Post-War America, 2006.
A look at the injustice and degradation suffered by African-Americans in post-war America, through the eyes of famous African-American authors such as James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois.
1,345 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines the writings of famous African-American authors such as James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, and discusses their experiences and understanding of what it meant to be a Black-American in post-war America. The paper focuses primarily on the work of James Baldwin and his description of the destruction of his race and the injustice and the force to which African-Americans were subjected.
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"Baldwin's experience was that of a black man trying to find meaning and success and identity in apartheid America. Being black--or Negro, in the vernacular of the time--was a crucial fact of life. Baldwin observes the creation and the effects of "the projects," slums, and ghettoes on both the city-dwellers who live there and those who create them in the first place. James Baldwin's "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem" is about one of these 'projects' that has captivated the blacks within the lanes of Harlem. Baldwin desperately and passionately hated the streets of Harlem not for what they were but rather, what they stood for. According to Baldwin the neighborhoods were distinctive in place and culture. They differed from America in all terms and manners. The law, schools, professional associations, and judicial institutions in these neighborhoods, were 'protected by law enforcement not of this territory. Baldwin's "occupation thesis," of course, challenges the American Dream and suggests an endemic basis for social unrest. But, the implication to be developed here is for how we understand law. Jurisprudence rather than policy, ethics, or political theory, is the issue and the challenge is just as compelling."
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The New Deal and African-Americans, 2004.
This paper discusses the New Deal, a set of federal policies targeted at welfare relief and economic development during the administration President Franklin Roosevelt, and its effect on African-Americans.
2,085 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains that the Roosevelts were promoters of human rights and racial equality; thus, part of the goal of the New Deal was to promote racial equality by creating federal agencies to help ease discrimination against African-Americans and to create economic opportunities for the advancement of black citizens. The author points out that, despite their status as free Americans and the general economic prosperity that occurred in the 1920s, African-Americans were still far from being treated as full citizens; therefore, for many black families in the 1930s, the difficulties spawned by the Great Depression magnified already existing forms of inequitable treatment. The paper concludes that, even though the promises of the New Deal engendered hope in the African-American population, which was desperate for social and political change, studies show that the New Deal fell far short of its goal of promoting racial equality.
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African Americans and the Depression
The Promises of the New Deal
After the New Deal
Conclusion
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"This mass migration, however, led to growing racial tensions in the cities. Unemployed whites felt that they should have first priority for the few factory jobs that were available. Many desperate white workers also began taking jobs as janitors and street sweepers -- positions that were formerly reserved for African Americans. This contributed further to the displacement of African Americans from the paid labor force. Furthermore, while limited financial aid was available, white families had priority for any unemployment assistance."
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African-Americans and their Political Progress, 2005.
A discussion regarding the history of African-Americans in politics, focusing on the 'Black Power' movement.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper tackles the impact of African-American political progress in socioeconomic terms. Included in the discussion is the significance of the civil rights movement and the resultant Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The establishment of "Black Power," its vital political significance in economically integrating present day African-American communities into the mainstream American workforce are also discussed.
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"What was the economic basis for exclusion and inclusion of-African- Americans in the political process? African-Americans did not possess sustained economic opportunity until World War II, when most of the white male population was conscripted, leaving jobs on the home front vacant. The primary difference of this opportunity from others in the past was that "earnings" increased post-war (Ferguson 17). The mass migration of African-Americans to jobs in the North during the 1950s and 1960s also contributed to this (Thernstrom & Thernstrom 15). Unfortunately, most jobs were menial - those unwanted by whites - and progression up the ranks was the exclusive "right" of whites. It was a well-accepted notion that unemployment was a major factor in dissatisfaction with the prevailing society and led to extreme events such as riots."
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African-Americans: Their Past and Present, 2007.
This paper discusses the history of African-Americans and their situation today.
2,260 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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The paper documents the history of African-Americans in America until the twentieth century when they were finally granted rights to full citizenship. The paper explores the connection between blacks and crime and the damaging effects of mass incarceration. The paper also examines the portrayal of African-Americans by the media and the situation for African-Americans with regards to employment. The paper shows how blacks are still suffering from their years of slavery and concludes with the hope that as the United States becomes more racially diverse, their situation will only improve.
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"The history of African Americans concerns the story of a group of people who were displaced from their different homelands and struggled through great adversity to adapt to their new "homes" and redefine their traditions and culture. Since arriving in North America, their dreams, thoughts, hopes and actions became responsible for some of the most profound economic, political, and cultural developments in the modern Western world. Black resistance slowly destroyed the political and economic system of slavery and created new forms of democracy and equality for all people of color and women. Black creativity influenced all forms of Western art, music, dance and theater.
Black intellectualism looked at various forms of scholarship in entirely different ways to establish new methodologies and approaches."
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African Americans in the Armed Forces, 2008.
An analysis of the historical hurdles facing African Americans who wanted to enlist in the American armed forces.
6,789 words (approx. 27.2 pages), 49 sources, MLA, $ 154.95
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This paper discusses the challenges that historically faced African- American troops in the American armed forces. It looks at the reasons why African Americans joined the army and the hurdles they faced before they could enlist. It then discusses the problems they encountered as Black soldiers and lastly analyzes the outcome of their fighting for the U.S. armed forces.
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"The answer to this question is of course not uniform from soldier to soldier, any more than it would be for any other subset of soldiers defined by race. Some blacks have gone to war to escape poverty at home, some to leave families they no longer loved, some to prove themselves as full Americans, some because they believed fervently in the Constitution and felt that it was a piece of paper worth dying for. Some because they wanted to be heroes, some because they were foolish, some because they were brave, some because they wanted to live up to the dreams of their parents, some because they had something to prove to themselves. The decision to go to war is a complex one for any thoughtful person, and the nature of race relations in the United States has always made that decision even more complex for blacks than for whites."
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African-Americans in History, 2002.
Examines the pre- and post-Second World War years and how this was a period of growth for the African-American community.
2,145 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper looks at the period from the decades before World War II to the decade after it, in terms of the standing and status of African-Americans in U.S. society. It looks at how this time was one substantial improvement for blacks in the U.S. The paper begins with a brief description of the historical background to this period, the years from the turn of the last century through World War I as African-Americans began to become an increasingly urbanized population and as the country began to move beyond the direct effects of the Civil War and of Reconstruction in its struggle to come to terms with a multi-racial society.
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"We tend to think about two eras in American history as being particularly beneficial to African-Americans in terms of chances of bettering their lives and the increased tolerance and respect for this portion of the American population granted by other Americans ? the period just during and after the Civil War, when slaves were granted their freedom and before the excesses of Reconstruction and the consequent backlash against African-American began and the period of Civil Rights protest and legal reform that swept over the country in the 1960s."
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African-Americans and Civil Rights, 2008.
This paper discusses the differences between the integrationist movement and African-American Nationalism during the civil rights era.
976 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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The paper compares the two approaches to the American Civil Rights Movement: the moderate integrationist movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the more radical African-American nationalism movement, associated with Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party. The paper shows the intense rivalry between these two different approaches. The paper points out, however, that they were working for the same ideal of true equality for African Americans.
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"The Civil Rights struggle was the struggle of African Americans to gain equal rights to whites in the USA. It took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of those involved in the struggle preferred moderate means. A famous integrationist was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the other hand, some activists were more radical. Most of these radical activists did not believe in working with whites. This is referred to as African American Nationalism. Famous African American Nationalists include Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party."
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African-Americans in World War II, 2006.
This paper explores the racism and inequality African-American soldiers suffered both on the front lines, during the war and back at home.
2,050 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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This paper probes the history of the 99th Fighter Squadron, created in 1941. This writer of this essay discusses the racism experienced by the entirely African-American squadron, in which the men were segregated from the white pilots on the base and had to deal with separate barracks, toilets and even drinking fountains. This paper reviews the squadron's involvement in WWII and shows how during the Battle of the Bulge, African-American soldiers finally had the chance to prove their might. While race lines had become fuzzy as the harsh reality of war began to set in, the writer explains how the military dealt with racism, which resulted in General Eisenhower desegregating the army, in 1944, so that black soldiers were placed within existing units on the extremely volatile front.
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"Ultimately, the military's approach to its black soldiers in World War II can be summarized by an editorial in the News Leader, a prominent Southern newspaper, which stated first that "Negro soldiers...must be treated as fellow soldiers and not as vassals or as racial inferiors," but which added the stipulation that "this does not mean that either whites or Negroes are at their best in the same company, the same branch, the same mess." [27] Despite countless acts of courage and sacrifice - many of which have gone unrecognized by the media then and now - the African American soldier was not officially segregated into the US military until after the Korean War."
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Political Economy of African Americans, 2002.
A paper dealing with the economic difficulties faced by African Americans today.
2,314 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper deals with the economic difficulties which African Americans face. It explores reasons for the differences between the economic status of black and white Americans and also discusses possible remedies such as human capital theory and affirmative action.
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"For two hundred and fifty years African Americans suffered the worst slavery to have ever existed. They were taken from their homes and brought to the Americas where they were stripped of their humanity and treated in much the same way as cattle. It was once said that to be a Roman slave in Rome, or for that matter a Greek slave in Rome, was much different from being enslaved to a culture which was completely different from your own and to a culture where you were no longer considered human. This was the brutal slavery that Africans and later African Americans faced. It is now three hundred years, a Civil War and a civil revolution later and still the descendants of these former slaves are left with yet another struggle. While African Americans were able to gain certain rights and do away with the open racism and open segregation, there are still other factors that to this day hold them down from reaching equality compared to White Americans."
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African Americans and Racism, 2005.
An analysis of why African Americans appear to have become passive in their reaction to racism.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper presents an analysis of why many African Americans appear to have become passive in their reaction toward racism in U.S. society, based on research articles and interviews with both whites and Blacks.
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"Forty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, discrimination is alive and well against African Americans in U S society ..."
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The Airline Industry and African-Americans, 2004.
This paper discusses the outlook within the airline industry regarding the job prospects for African-Americans and the overall future of the airline industry.
1,965 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses two problems that the airline industry faces: the lack of representation of African-Americans within the air industry and the shrinking overall outlook for the industry as a whole. The author stresses that the airline industry must turn to groups representing minority interests within the industry, such as the Organization of Black Airline Pilots (OBAP), which remains committed to increasing the representation of blacks in all spheres of the aviation industry, federal and commercial, and in management as well. The paper suggests that, even though there are objections, greater government intervention may be necessary to re-regulate the industry by instituting price controls, rationing fuel at airports, controlling the airports, and bringing in the Equal Opportunity Commission.
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Introduction and Project Objectives
Methodology for Addressing Problem
Strategy for Obtaining Input and Support
Project Plan with Timelines and Deliverables
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"In the past, ?Fly the friendly skies,? the famous and infamous Delta Airlines advertisement used to proclaim to viewers everywhere. But friendly to whom, African American job seekers and consumers could have demanded of the smiling Delta personnel on the ground and in the air, as depicted in the ads when they first ran in the 1970s and 1980s. The customers and the airline personnel alike in the advertisements were largely white, middle-class, and homogeneous in their appearances and depicted lifestyles. If women appeared in these ads in a professional capacity, they appeared as smiling and attractive stewardesses. This was, sadly reflective of the real-life airline industry in general at the time."
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Advancement Empowerment for African-Americans, 2006.
A look at the progress of African-Americans.
2,314 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper explores how the African-American people have developed themselves through legal slavery and other injustices brought upon them by the whites. It looks at how they as a people have developed despite the odds against them. The author looks how every success that the blacks achieved was through wars, strikes and joint efforts of whites and blacks together. The paper concludes with the author's own personal opinion that the fight for equality is far from over. Outline: The Black Family The Family The Concept of Sharecropping Formation of the Black Church Education Black Migration World War II
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"After filing by 38 members of post war separate petition by the Fairfield Baptist Church in Northumberland County in Virginia in 1867 marked the beginning of a social status to the African American on religious matters and separated the whites from the blacks to different churches. The Black Churches spread rapidly throughout the South. By 1895, the various Baptist Associations had formed themselves into the National Baptist Convention of America representing 3 million African American Baptists in the South."
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