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Richard Wright and John Griffin, 2006.
A comparison between Richard Wright and John Griffin.
2,010 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper reviews, discusses and compares the authors, Richard Wright and John Griffin. The paper focuses on issues relating to being African-American, religion and education.
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"He, like Wright, felt fenced in by the Jim Crow mentality that still existed in the South, a century after slavery had been abolished. Talking with black men as an equal, the black men finally told him the truth. They talked about how hard it was not to find a rest room, and to be denied the use of public facilities. The shoe-shine man in the French Quarter that Griffin had paid as a white man never recognized him, even when he revealed to him who he was. He felt the backlash of blacks when he tried to be polite to white people, and realized that blacks felt prejudice, as well. The hatred and fractured society the blacks (and whites) lived in, in the South, created what he called "fragmented individualism," created from having to think of oneself first as a member of a sick society, then as a person. This constant switching back and forth from the abnormal social life to a personal life where one could not remain true to oneself, created an individual with multiple personalities."
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Gangsta Rap Music, 2007.
This paper discusses gangsta rap music and violence towards women.
1,396 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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In this article the writer notes that the term gangsta rap began its rise to popularity when the controversial single "Gangsta, Gangsta" by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude) hit the Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart. The writer explains that rap music is an expression of minorities' frustration with poverty, drugs, and sexual harassment, yet some includes explicit lyrics about violence and sexual abuse that many critics believe can easily mislead impressionable teens who are the main patrons of this type of music The writer maintains that gangsta rap music is essentially the vocalization of sentiments that have lived long within the political environment of the African-American community. The writer concludes that to feel empowered, African- American males attempt to keep women subordinate.
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"African American men have historically enabled themselves with the power and authority to determine the black political agenda, and have consistently abused that power and defined the boundaries of the imagined black nation in terms of a sexual politics that institutionalized male domination and the subordination of the feminine. For example, Alexander Crummell suggested that one of African American women's main political duties was to protect their virtue and maintain sexual purity, and Stokely Carmichael asserted that the only position for women in his movement was prone."
"Ice Cube held women and gay men in contempt in "Amerikkka's Most Wanted," and in particular the fictional violence against women, with lyics such as "bitch-killah" in "The Nigga Ya Love to Hate," and the misogynistic "You Can't Fade Me," which is a venomous mother's -baby-father's-maybe tale that concludes with a murderous fantasy."
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Sexism and Racism, 2007.
An argument against the points made by Laurence Thomas in his article entitled "Sexism and Racism: Some Conceptual Differences."
1,112 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper presents the writer's personal response to the essay by Laurence Thomas, entitled "Sexism and Racism: Some Conceptual Differences." It argues that Thomas presents an impractical argument, an exercise in rhetoric and semantics, based on subjective analysis. The writer then points to numerous flaws in the specific points that Thomas tries to make and suggests that since Thomas' essay was written, attitudes have changed dramatically.
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"And here is still another consideration: taking the position of a chauvinist in order to explain what sexism is ruins his argument in the first place. For example, on page 247 he says in the "traditional male role" a "real man" is one who "wears the pants around the house." This is an old-fashioned concept and has little to do with a man being "sexist" except for the fact that the writer himself seems to have chauvinistic ideas about the man-woman genre."
"Meanwhile, some of the arguments spelled out by Laurence Thomas have value, but others are completely innocuous. How can he say that "sexism" is "unlike racism" because it "lends itself to a morally unobjectionable description"? Both sexism and cultural bigotry are morally objectionable. Both are examples of the cultural confusion in our country."
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Americans of African and Asian Decent, 2007.
A comparison and contrast of the immigrant experiences of African-Americans and Asian-Americans.
895 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper highlights the commonalities and differences in the immigration and integration process of African and Asian-Americans. The focus is on the hardships endured by both groups. The author points out how both groups endured difficult voyages to reach America, although the Chinese paid a fee to come while the blacks were brought against their will. Also illustrated is the racism both groups endured upon their arrival to America, which often included violence. The author concludes that although both groups have gained freedom and rights in modern America, they still face prejudice and racism in various parts of their lives.
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"Asian Americans and African Americans both had to immigrate to the United States, they were not native to the area. African Americans were some of the first immigrants to arrive; most of them were initially brought here against their will to serve as slaves in both the North and South of the eastern United States. There are records of slaves and free blacks living in the U.S. in the 1700s and by the early1800s, there were thousands of blacks working as slaves on the great plantations of the South."
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Black Politicians, 2006.
A discussion regarding the racial, cultural, situational realities and challenges facing black politicians.
1,362 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper reviews Toni Morrison's essay describing Bill Clinton as "the first black president". The paper then goes on to discuss how black politicians in general run not only against an actual human opponent or opponents, but also must face the reality of being black in a society that still holds plenty of prejudice against African-Americans, stemming from the days of Southern slavery.
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"Morrison has a powerful and relevant point; black (and/or quasi-black) politicians are seldom if ever scions of the predominantly white power elite, e.g., an Al Gore; George W. Bush; Evan Bayh, Lincoln Chafee; or a Kennedy son, daughter or grandchild -at least not in America. So, as Toni Morrison also implies within her 1998 essay, a black politician in America is seldom if ever "anointed" to office in the way that all too many white ones have been historically (think Adams; Taft; Roosevelt Kennedy), and continue to be nowadays. The two most recent examples of successful white politicians whose fathers (after whom they each, moreover, is named, thereby even increasing, even more, voters' connection of this name to that of (most of the time, anyway) a powerful (white) Washington insider whose son (or sometimes daughter) has simply decided that now is the time to enter the "family business"."
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Baldwin and Ellison, 2006.
A review of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man".
1,581 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper reviews and discusses James Baldwin's book "Sonny's Blues" and Ralph Ellison's book "Invisible Man". The paper takes a look at how these two literary works depict the Black Man's struggle throughout the 1940s and 1950s. The paper also discusses their struggle for financial independence; for equality; for self-expression and self-hood.
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"Then he goes home (to the projects). Even here, however, the relative stability of wife and family are there to greet him. The narrator has not managed to escape his and Sonny's upbringing altogether, but he has managed to avoid certain pitfalls Sonny obviously has not. However, the existence (and mention by Baldwin) of such public housing projects anyway, and the fact of Baldwin's unnamed narrator's living there, in fact underscores the 1950's-era (pre-EEO) efforts by the government to counteract prejudices against blacks in housing and other areas) the guilt-laden older brother of the title character, Sonny, who is an accomplished blues pianist but also a heroin addict. And now the narrator knows from the newspaper that Sonny was arrested last night for possessing and selling heroin. The news causes the narrator, as he leaves school for the day, to begin to recall his and Sonny's childhoods, teenage years, and young adulthoods, and also vividly reminds him of his own strong feelings, inculcated in him by their late mother, of brotherly responsibility toward Sonny. "
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Blacks in WWII & Vietnam, 2007.
This paper discusses the injustice done to black Americans during World War II and the Vietnam war.
3,476 words (approx. 13.9 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 98.95
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In this article, the writer discusses how different were the two circumstances in World War II and the Vietnam War for black soldiers. The writer examines what is being said about those wars today and the African American soldier's participation in them. This research paper puts a microscope of comparison and contrast on the issue of black soldiers and those two wars. The essay determines that the available books, journalism and critical writing about the black experience in Vietnam is far more useful in terms of doing research on the experience for blacks than materials on WWI.
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World War II, Vietnam and Black Soldiers
Purpose of Study
Opening Statement
Assumption
Discussion of Findings - Black Soldiers and WWII
Discussion of Findings - Black Soldiers and Vietnam
Recommendations
Conclusion/Summary
Works Cited
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"War is hell. The cliche still works, years after someone first uttered those words. It always will work whether it be Iraq, Vietnam, or Omaha Beach. But when you're black and fighting a war for a nation that excludes you from the mainstream of its social and political life back home, as it was true for blacks in WWII, it's a double dose of hell. Because, in the case of World War II, if you're black, you know when you get home the same injustice and roadblocks to justice await you. You know that jobs for African Americans will not offer the same opportunities for advancement when you get home, schools for your children will not be as modern as schools for white children, and even the right to vote may be in doubt. All those unpleasant realities notwithstanding, the African American soldiers fought hard and long and bravely in WWII, and in the end, whether immediate recognition was forthcoming or not, whether social justice was just over the horizon or not, those troops and their families knew the sacrifices they made were many and exemplary."
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Civil Rights Laws, 2007.
This paper discusses the emergence of civil rights laws in the 1960s and their influence until today.
921 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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The paper discusses how the decade of the 1960s was one of the most momentous, since major anti-discrimination laws were passed to clarify the rights of all people. The paper relates that civil rights laws, passed in 1957, 1960 and 1964, promised voting and employment equality, but were enforced poorly or ignored. The paper discusses how the fight for equal rights for all individuals regardless of race, creed, religion, color or gender continues in the United States until today. The paper concludes that the decade of the 1960s will always be known as one of change and evolution.
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"Some scholars say that because the framers of the U.S. Constitution were a relatively group of white men, many of whom had been educated at the country's best schools and were from some of the best families, the document produced was biased in various ways. For example, in 1987 Justice Thurgood Marshall said that the Constitution was "defective from the start," that its first words--"We the People"--excluded "the majority of American citizens," because it left out blacks and women."
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, 2007.
A discussion of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois' impact on the civil rights movement in America.
1,248 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper discusses the influence of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois on the American civil rights movement. The author argues that their outlooks are still alive today in debates concerning issues such as racial and class injustice and the role of leadership in the African- American community. The paper gives a brief biography of each man and his respective philosophical outlook. The author highlights where Washington and Du Bois' philosophies diverged, and their ultimate impact on racial equality in America.
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"The dispute between Washington and Du Bois polarized the leaders into two distinct sides, Washington's conservative supporters and Du Bois' radical philosophy (Two). Du Bois' strategy of agitation and protest led directly into the Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. Washington's philosophy is often associated with conservative African Americans such as Justice Clarence Thomas and the Nation of Islam (Two). "
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Project Proposal Racism, 2007.
This paper offers a project proposal on the issue of racism, focusing on students in the United States.
1,988 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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In this article, the writer notes that racism is an insidious social problem that has its roots so far back that defining when such issues came to be would be impossible. Furthermore, the writer points out that there is a great deal of idealism surrounding the current state of racism in Western society. The writer maintains that many people are under the mistaken impression that it does not occur any longer, or when it does, uneducated and backward outsiders usually perpetrate acts of racism. This proposal demonstrates a need to have a better understanding of the occurrence of racism on the college campuses in the United States. The writer suggests a study that assesses the identification of both subtle and overt acts of racism that minority students experience daily.
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Introduction
Subjects of Study
Ethical Consideration
Measurement
Data Collection Methods
Analysis
References
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"Fox's work discusses the difficult nature of discussing race in a college setting, as facing the realities of racism in an open environment can be charged and even emotionally debilitating to all who are involved, but her particular point is the stress it places on the instructor, who is given the task of mediating often deeply held beliefs, that are in conflict with the real people involved. Challenges to open, honest and still civil conversations about race are many and yet the needs for such conversations are also countless. Race relations in the United States, and elsewhere will not improve if they are ignored, with the well meaning idea that they are innocuous and or non-existent in society today. In another comprehensive work on racism in education, speaking of the secondary education level, and the education system in general in the United States, Donaldson discusses the curriculum trap for minority students."
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Self-Affirmations and Prejudice, 2007.
This paper investigates the effects that positive self-affirmation has on stereotypes.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper discusses how prejudice and negative stereotyping has devastating effects on individuals' self esteem and self worth, which extends to societal problems on a larger scale. The paper presents a study that investigates whether positive self-affirmations influence the likelihood of individuals holding prejudicial and stereotypical beliefs and if suggested self-concepts are projected onto others who are often stereotyped. The paper shows how the findings match the hypothesis that the promotion of self-integrity through suggestion of a positive, self-affirming belief acts to reduce or diminish prejudicial belief of others.
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"What functions do stereotypes and prejudice have for individuals that believe in them? Numerous research studies have shown that holding prejudices results in an increase in perceived self-worth and self-integrity (Fein & Spencer, 1997; Govorun, Fuegen & Payne, 2006; Newman, Duff & Baumeister, 1997; Seibt & Forster, 2004). In other words, holding prejudicial beliefs that are consistent with commonly held stereotypes led to individuals' feeling better about themselves, or having an improved self-concept. This phenomenon was investigated in detail by Fein & Spencer (1997), who sought to examine the role that self-image plays in the maintenance of negative perceptions of others and prejudice."
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