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African-American Men and Child Support, 2002.
This paper looks to refute the claim that there is more evidence of failure to pay child support among African-American men than among white men.
758 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 18.95
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The paper uses research conducted on the topic to argue that the minimal amount of disparity between the liklihood of child support payment between black men and white men can be attributed to the considerably higher unemployment and lower compensation of African-American men.
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"Census data specify the race of parents due child support, but they do not specify the gender or race of those paying it. However, nearly all child support is owed by men, and the overwhelming majority of children have parents of the same race. Many mothers do not seek payments from absent fathers. In 1991, 1 million of 2.9 million Black custodial parents had child support orders. The belief that black men are unwilling to pay child support has fueled efforts by Congress to correct the problem. Welfare legislation includes proposals to create state and federal registries to track "deadbeat dads" who cross state lines and take new jobs. States would also be able to suspend driver's and occupational licenses held by nonpaying parents, a step that President Clinton has urged, though critics have argued that suspending driver's licenses could actually have the opposite of the intended effect."
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Incarceration and African-American Men, 2002.
Examines the interaction of high incarceration rates with the health and life expectancy of African-American men and the role of early intervention.
4,562 words (approx. 18.2 pages), 23 sources, APA, £ 82.95
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African-American male adolescents and adults are embedded in a context that is less supportive of their health and well being than of any other group in this country. They have lower life expectancies, high-risk exposure and higher levels of incarceration than any other group.
The paper shows that African-Americans are disproportionately residents of large cities which seem to have higher homicide rates and higher rates of alcohol and drug abuse. When they do drink, they tend to have worse consequences from their drinking, including incarceration and addiction. The paper shows that with incarceration, comes additional problems of exacerbated health issues and exposure to new, life-threatening infections. Services have been cut for education and prevention in prisons and jails. Finally, recidivism rates are longer for African-American males as are jail sentences. The paper argues that improving the health status of African-American males requires a multi-faceted approach, including support of a two-adult family structure, continuing emphasis on the negative impacts of racism, reduction of drug and alcohol abuse, intervention in prison health systems and improved recidivism programs. The paper provides an overview literature on the subject.
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"Results indicated that mortality rates were excessive for both men and women in all of the poverty areas, especially among African-Americans. For example, boys in Harlem who reached the age of 15 had only a 37 percent chance of surviving to the age of 65. The only African-American area study that had mortality rates comparable to those of standardized national rates for white American was the Queens-Bronx area in which the mortality rate for men was 1.18 (Geronimus et al., 1996)."
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African-American Men, 2002.
A study of the high incarceration rates, health and life expectancy of African-American men and the role of early prevention/intervention.
4,837 words (approx. 19.3 pages), 32 sources, MLA, £ 85.95
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This paper discusses how African-American male adolescents and adults are embedded in a context that is less supportive of their health and well being than of any other group in this country. It analyzes how this is reflected by lower life expectancies, high-risk exposure and higher levels of incarceration than any other group. Through an extensive literature review, it shows how African-Americans disproportionately reside in large cities which seem to have higher homicide rates and higher rates of alcohol and drug abuse and how, when they do drink, they tend to have worse consequences from their drinking, including incarceration and addiction. It also examines how a consequence of incarceration, is exacerbated health issues and exposure to new, life-threatening infections, such as HIV. It looks at how improving the health status of African-American males requires a multi-faceted approach, including support of a two-adult family structure, continuing emphasis on the negative impacts of racism, reduction of drug and alcohol abuse, intervention in prison health systems and improved recidivism programs.
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"Alcohol use is prevalent among the African-American male population in urban areas, specifically. As noted in previous pages, this population tends to do somewhat more heavy drinking than its white peers, with that heavy drinking concentrated among the lower income population, and it tends to suffer disproportionately from drinking consequences and alcohol dependence symptoms. In addition, this group is more exposed to alcohol than the general population, with targeted advertising and increased alcohol outlet density (Scribner et al., 1995 & 1999)."
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Prostate Cancer in African-American Men, 2008.
An intervention proposal to increase the probability of screening and early detection of prostate cancer in African-American males.
1,881 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 28 sources, APA, £ 41.95
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This paper discusses how prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in American males and how multiple epidemiological studies have confirmed that African-American males have a higher incidence of prostate cancer, and experience higher mortality than Caucasian males in the United States. It looks at how ignorance of cultural issues, language differences, and prejudice all serve as barriers to access to a uniform standard of health care for African-American males. It contends that to be effective, recruitment of African-American males into prostate cancer screening programs must move from health care provider sites, to community sites where African-American males normally congregate and looks at some of the success stories.
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"Difficulty recruiting African-American men into prostate cancer screening clinical trials and mass screenings is a common thread in the literature review. National trials data with less than ten percent participation rates among African-American men demonstrates that the current approach to recruitment into screening is less than effective (Weinrich, Boyd, & Bradford, 1998). The research demonstrates the possibility of multiple causative factors. In general, the lack of knowledge about prostate cancer may be a barrier to making an informed decision about prostate specific antigen (PSA) and digital rectal examination (DRE) screening (Sellers & Ross, 2003). Informed decision-making implies that the decision to screen will involve both the health care professional and the patient (Sellers & Ross). "
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The Marginalization of Native Americans and African-Americans, 2004.
Examines how post-colonial American history impacted the emancipation of African-Americans and Native Americans, or Indians.
1,065 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 25.95
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Before American society become liberated and independent from British rule, two important events became the catalyst for social and political changes that occurred within the American nation: the American Revolution (1775-1783) and the American Civil War (1860). These significant events in American history contributed to the liberation of America as a nation and the independence of marginalized sectors in America, the native American-Indians and African-Americans. This paper discusses the impact of the American Revolution and American Civil War in encouraging/discouraging the emancipation of the American Indians and African-Americans from prejudice and discrimination in the American society. In addition, this paper also focuses on the implications of the emancipation or non-emancipation of these sectors to the future of American society and nation.
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"However, over time, a strong public sentiment began forming as atrocities against the black slaves were exposed to the American nation. Because of strong public sentiment against black American slavery and continuing conflict between the South and North, the American Civil War erupted, and the anti-slavery vs. pro-slavery conflict ended with the issuance of the Emancipation Declaration of 1863 by then US President Abraham Lincoln. Thus, African-Americans, unlike the native American-Indians, were able to achieve their freedom from American rule and colonization, bringing down social prejudice and discrimination of the African-American sector in the American society and nation."
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African-Americans and American Prisons, 2007.
This paper examines the relatively high number of African-Americans incarcerated in American prisons.
1,313 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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The paper discusses the drive to control American populations through incarceration and notes that this has disproportionately affected the nation's African-American population. The paper shows how nearly half of all inmates in America's prisons are African-American, despite the fact that they make up only twelve percent of the overall population. The paper examines the social and political reasons for this disparity and reveals that a form of racial prejudice would appear to be underlying these statistics. The paper discusses how the mass incarceration of America's African-American population is destroying their community, and the African-American people in general.
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"In a time of great economic and social change, one American industry is booming: the prison-industrial complex. These prisons represent an ever-expanding apparatus of social control (Ward, 2004), one that, according to Julia Sudbury, is focused specifically on regulating, and further marginalizing the underprivileged masses in today's neo-liberal regimes (Ward, 2004). Recent decades' "get tough on crime" policies, such as mandatory minimum sentences, "three strikes" laws, and so forth, have witnessed historically unparalleled rates of incarceration in the United States."
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African Americans and Native Africans, 2002.
A comparison of the different sub-cultures of the African American minority group in the United States.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This paper discusses the history and culture of the recent immigrants to the United States from Africa and the Caribbean. It details how these immigrants are labeled as "African Americans" and lumped into the same sub-culture as the veteran African American population of the United States since the slave-trade. These two population groups are compared for their manners, cultures and social norms. A history of African immigration to America is provided.
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"The African Americans, or Black Americans as they are called, are the largest minority group in the United States, after the Hispanic Americans. This is a racial group whose ancestry is believed to be from the sub-Saharan Africa. However, there are some African Americans who claim to have their roots from the European immigrants, Native American or the Asians. In general the African American populations is usually referred to as Negroes, blacks and Afro-Americans. "
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Mexican-American and African-American Assimilation, 2004.
A comparative analysis of Mexican-American and African-American assimilation in the United States today.
4,544 words (approx. 18.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 82.95
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This paper examines the processes and sub-processes of assimilation. It looks at how sociologist, Milton M. Gordon, viewed assimilation as a collection of sub-processes emphasizing three main processes: cultural;
structural; and marital assimilation. It focuses on cultural, structural, and marital assimilation between African-Americans and Mexican-Americans in Texas and New York, as represented by 1990 and 2000 figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Outline
Introduction
Cultural Assimilation
Marital Assimilation
Secondary Structural Assimilation
Primary Structural Assimilation
Conclusion
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"Oppression has been a part of the patchwork of American history since the nation?s inception, leading to a fairly paradoxical culture in which equality and justice are theoretically cherished at the same time they are questionably practiced, and also in which a legacy of xenophilia, or the welcoming of immigrant contributions to the larger culture, has been mixed with a seemingly contradictory legacy of xenophobia and oppression of minority and immigrant groups. As the result of this historical legacy of oppression, members of a minority group such as African-American and Mexican-American cultures may, over the course of time, internalize the low self-image of themselves that has been traditionally projected by the dominant group as a justification for its oppressive policies."
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The African American's American Dream, 2002.
An overview of the history of the African American's American Dream through the works and ideals of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 36.95
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This paper is an examination of the history of the African American's American Dream. It looks at the history of independence-minded thinking in W.E.B. Du Bois and follows through the civil rights movement with the contrasting style and messages of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. It concludes that the American Dream for the African American has not fundamentally improved over the past one hundred years, and it seems almost more limited now than it was before the civil rights movement.
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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, £ 50.95
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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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Barbeques and African American Males, 2002.
A study of the relationship between men and barbeques, specifically African American men.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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This is a paper on barbeques, African Americans and men. What connection is there between African Americans and barbeques? Why do men barbeque?
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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, £ 48.95
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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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Prostate Cancer in African-American Males, 2008.
This paper explores the high incidence and mortality of prostate cancer in African-American men.
1,720 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 24 sources, APA, £ 38.95
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The paper reveals the disproportionate mortality rates for prostate cancer in African-American men in North Carolina. The paper explains that these statistics are related to socioeconomic, cultural and educational factors that present barriers to screening. The paper discusses how health care providers must collaborate with local African-American leaders to communicate the message that screening is relatively simple and increases the chance of survival of prostate cancer.
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"Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in American males. The lifetime probability of developing prostate cancer for men is one in six (American Cancer Society, 2007). The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that in 2007, twenty-nine percent of all cancer diagnosed in men will be prostate cancer (ACS). The risk increases with age, with more than sixty-five percent of all cases occurring in men over age sixty-five (ACS). Multiple epidemiological studies have confirmed that African-American males have a higher incidence of prostate cancer, and experience higher mortality than Caucasian males in the United States (Weinrich S., 2006). In fact, African-American men have the highest incidence of any ethnic group (French, 2005)."
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Diabetes in the African-American Community, 2004.
Provides an overall picture of the seriousness of the rate of Type 2 diabetes in the African-American community and, especially, for African-American women.
4,618 words (approx. 18.5 pages), 46 sources, APA, £ 82.95
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This paper examines the conjunction of the economic, social, and cultural status of African-Americans in Louisiana and their rates of Type 2 diabetes. African-Americans in Louisiana, as is true across the South and, indeed, across the nation, suffer from diabetes at seemingly disproportionately high rates. However, once economic, social, and cultural factors are taken into account, those rates no longer seem disproportionate. They are tragic, but comprehensible.
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"It must be noted that despite the terrible conditions under which many African-Americans continue to live that they are in general much better off than were their grandparents. We all know that beginning in the early 1960s the Civil Rights brought to the nation?s conscience the terrible conditions under which the majority of black Americans were living and helped begin the steady, if painfully slow, progress toward fuller civil rights and full inclusion in the promise of American citizenship. In large measure as a response to the Civil Rights movement, a number of federal, state, and local government programs were developed and implemented to help combat poverty and the effects of racism on African-Americans (Polednak, 1997, p. 38). While these programs were not directed primarily at diabetes reduction, of course, or even specifically toward improving the health of African-Americans, they tended to do so overall. One of the most important risk factors for early death and for a range of illness from diabetes to cancer to AIDS is poverty. By alleviating poverty, a society also alleviates unnecessary suffering from diseases."
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