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The African-American Struggle, 2002.
A history of the African-American struggle for equality with emphasis on the Black Panther Party.
3,185 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 63.95
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The paper presents a history of the African American struggle starting in the 1850's with the case of Dred Scott. It continues by explaining the status of African Americans during and after the civil war. The paper documents how, in the 1940's and 1950's, African Americans began to challenge the injustices they faced, particularly with regard to education. The paper continues to the 1960's with the rise of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Nation of Islam. The paper focuses on the aims and methods used by the BPP and how the FBI tried to discredit the BPP and other Black revolutionary organizations.
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"In 1954, the Supreme Court legitimately struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson in its Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled that separate educational facilities were intrinsically unequal. Some areas readily embraced integration after Brown, while others submitted only after further prodding from the courts. School administrators rapidly realized that they faced many problems, such as increased violence and increased discrepancy in the abilities of students in the same classroom."
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The Struggle Over African American Cultural Identity, 2002.
This paper discusses the political struggle over cultural identity via "the naming" process, whereby certain social constructions reinforce systems of racial oppression.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, £ 42.95
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Throughout American history, racial identities have been formed by not only politics, but also by the intersection of class and racial boundaries. The paper argues that African Americans must struggle to rid themselves of certain traits that have been internalized from the white power structure. African Americans must work to open a discourse outside of the parameters of language built by white elites. In this way they can shape their own racial and cultural identity.
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African-American?s History and Achievements, 2006.
An overview of the history of the African-American struggle.
2,789 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 57.95
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In this paper the author identifies the roots of oppression and struggle that the African-Americans had to undergo in order to get where they are today. The author looks at the hardships and struggles that the African-Americans had to endure. In particular the paper highlights the migration of the African people to America and how they have built a life for themselves despite all the odds being against them. In conclusion the author again emphasizes the struggle and oppression that the African-Americans underwent in their fight to be accepted.
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"The new black migrants looked upon the established black families with contempt at their dependence on wealthy whites and their false air of superiority over members of their own race. One black migrant who became a successful businessman described how the new migrants supplanted the supposed intellectual of the Northern Negroes. He described the waves of immigrants that were coming in now. Their kids grew up from the fields without access to white-dependent jobs. They had to struggle to survive and make it. "
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African-Americans and Education, 2007.
This paper discusses the progress, struggles and aspirations of African-Americans in education.
1,466 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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The paper relates the history of education for African-Americans and explores problems relating to education legislation. The paper looks at present education issues and concerns for African-American students and examines statistics relating to their drop-out rates. The paper concludes that there has been progress, to a degree, in educational attainment of the aspirations of African-American students, although there are still barriers.
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Introduction
History of Education for African Americans
Noted Problems Relating to Education Legislation
Present Education Issues and Concerns for African-American Students
Statistics Relating to Drop-out Rates of African-Americans
Summary and Conclusion
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"The work of Allen and Jewell (2002) states that: "...the Black struggle for higher education is an apt metaphor for the larger Black struggles for citizenship, self-determination and personhood in this society." The historical account of the African American race in obtaining access to higher education in the United States is characterized by many ups and downs. The aspirations of the African American individual of attaining higher education have been historically unattained due to existing barriers to higher education of Black individuals."
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African-American Leaders, 2002.
An in-depth study into leadership styles of African-American leaders. Mentioned are Martin LutherKing and Malcolm X among others.
6,410 words (approx. 25.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 102.95
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This research studies the ways in which African-Americans become leaders in the United States today, looking at the struggles that they have to overcome in terms of the general level of background racism that still exists in this nation. This paper comes to an understanding of how the particular challenges faced by African-Americans today produce certain kinds of leaders with specific strengths. As a part of understanding how it is that certain African-Americans find themselves called on to be leaders (and how some of them succeed), this paper looks first at some general ideas about leadership, using tenets pulled from communication theory to help us understand why it is that different leaders choose different leadership styles based on the demands of the moment in history they find themselves in.
This paper also looks at some of the most important African-American leaders of the 20th century as a way of attempting to understand if there are cross-generational values, forms of discourse, and styles of leadership that mark most or even all leaders in this community.
Finally, this proposal describes a research design that will allow for a deeper investigation into the ways in which leadership values and communication skills come together in today?s African-American communities to build leaders who are capable of addressing some of the most important issues facing African-Americans today, such as the high incarceration rate of black men, environmental racism, the high rate of single-parent families, and racism, especially by police.
Table of Contents
Preface
Leadership Style
?Hoping Not to Fail"
Research Design
Works Cited
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"It may be tempting to think that all great leaders are the same ? that they come into this world with certain traits that mark them as different from the rest of us. But this is not true: Leaders vary in important ways, and not simply because of differences in their own personalities. Rather, leaders are molded by the political and cultural circumstances of their moment in history ? even as they also mold those circumstances. One of the most important circumstances that molds any African-American leader is the prevalent racism in the United States and structures of inequality that have persisted since slavery."
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Current Status of African-Americans, 2005.
Describes the African-American subculture within the United States and how well African-Americans have adapted to the way of life.
1,466 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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This paper describes the African-American adaptation within the mainstream U.S. culture and the struggles that are still occurring within this subculture as a result.
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"The American cultural landscape includes many different subcultures within its makeup. These subcultures give America its blend of nationality that makes it a strong, and prosperous nation. Within these subcultures, there are several large subcultures that can be used to breakdown the behavioral characteristics of the U.S. society. These categories are white, Latino-American, African-American, Jewish, and Native American. The area that will be focused o is the African-American subculture and how well it has assimilated with the dominant American culture."
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Equality in African-American Literature, 2007.
An examinarion of works by Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison that describe African-Americans' needs for equality and freedom.
1,042 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper examines how African-Americans' repeated struggles to obtain freedom from Southern slavery as well as their quest for social, economic and educational equality with whites, have been starkly and vividly described by a number of African-American authors. It points out that among these are the black educational leader Booker T. Washington; the novelist, short story writer and essayist Zora Neale Hurston and the novelist Ralph Ellison. The paper analyzes Washington's "The Atlanta Exposition", Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" and Ellison's "Battle Royal" in terms of depictions of the African-American struggle toward equality, freedom and self-actualization.
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"The "gradualism" argued for by Washington, in what is known now as his "Atlanta Compromise Speech", as a way of blacks' slowly gaining equality with whites through vocational education, pleased Washington's, mostly Southern white, audience at the 1894 Atlanta Exposition. Southern whites, worried about losing economic ground to former slaves, were happy to accept Washington's views of gradual progress for blacks through vocational education, although in hindsight this was not the best way for blacks to achieve equality with whites."
"Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It feels to be Colored Me" (1928), is written from the perspective of a 20th century African American woman, who feels, more than 60 years after the abolition of slavery, sanguine about being black in America."
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African-American History, 2007.
This paper studies African-American history as a tale of unrelenting dejection, struggle and misery.
3,029 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 61.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the lives of African-Americans after the Civil War. The writer discusses slave labor and the sharecropping system. The writer then discusses the Great Migration in the early 1930s when 1.5 to 2 million African-Americans left the South for industrial cities in the North. The writer studies the Negro-American revolution and black society of the time. The writer then examines how the Great Depression affected the African-American community. Finally, the writer discusses Martin Luther King and racial violence.
Outline:
The Sharecropping System
The Great Migration
New Negro Movement
The Great Depression and World War II
World War II
Non-Violence
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"Slave labor was very important to Southern economy until the 18th century. The hierarchic social structure before the Civil War had the slaves at the bottom and the plantation owners at the top. White landowners, who were the minority, exploited the Black majority. This Black majority had to suffer constant humiliations in the process. The white landowners viewed the Blacks as inferior so as to justify slavery. So as to deliberately justify their underpayment, white landowners must treat or view them as less ambitious and content with a low life status. Whites enjoyed the benefits while Blacks suffered severe disadvantages. The Blacks had no political or legal entitlements or economic rights. Plantation life, especially in the lower South, was difficult and perilous. However, it attracted large numbers of slaves because it offered greater chances of establishing slave families and communities. They often worked under the task system. Under this system, a slave received a task each day and worked until the task was completed. When this happened, the rest of the day became the slave's own time. Each task was extremely hard but the slaves took it because he somewhat exercised some control over the work pace and the length of the work day. They worked in groups called gangs, headed by slave drivers, on crop rows, plowing, planting, cultivating or picking, depending on the season."
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African American Education, 2005.
This paper examines current and past issues regarding African American education.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 10 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper addresses the problems African Americans had in the past and continue to have in the present. The writer discusses the specific difficulties of African Americans then and looks at whether this continues to hold true for African Americans today. The writer examines the specific issues of minorities today. Further, the writer points out that when it comes to the education of African Americans and other minorities, the struggle has been long and difficult, ranging from the early years of slavery and segregation and continuing with the present issues of diversity, standardized tests, and educational funding.
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""Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe it does". This question was asked before the Supreme Court in the Brown et al vs. Board of Education in the 1950s. While many people believe that Brown vs. Board of Education was the first school segregation case, this simply is not true."
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African-American Resistance to Race and Gender Roles, 2005.
A look at the extent to which African-Americans were able to resist stereotypes of race and gender roles, between 1865 and 1896.
1,895 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 12 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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This paper examines how African-Americans struggled to resist stereotypes of race and gender in the face of hostile and aggressive racism and how white southerners had for generations 'owned' their African-American counterparts making the struggle for equality and respect a long and difficult process. It discusses how, although it is important not to underestimate the achievements of African-American women, especially, the vitriolic hostility and fervent racism meant certain white constructed race and gender roles, still live on in the south.
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"The oppressive nature of slavery had had dramatic effects on African American gender roles. As the slaves were property of the plantation master, there was no need for males to act as the family head or providers. Stanley Elkins argues the severity of the slave regime crippled the slave personality, which therefore made slaves unable to partake in any actions that would resemble those of an organised community. Elkins believed that the severe mental trauma resulted in a defensive response, manifested in a loss of individuality, and instead created one uniform psychologically handicapped personality, which he termed 'Sambo.' "
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African American Women, 2006.
A discussion regarding oppression, diversity and the struggle for human rights of African American women.
2,089 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 12 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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This paper takes a look at how the history of African American women is closely aligned to the history of social and racial oppression in America. The paper discusses how the history of this group is linked strongly to the development of the movement in this country against inequality and for civil rights. The paper further discusses how the history of African American women is also intimately bound up with the history and after effects of slavery.
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Introduction
Aspects of Culture and Tradition
Social Work Aspects
Further Research and Resources
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"Among the many other social and health issues that characterize this group are drug and alcohol abuse and dependency. Studies have found that there is a relatively high rate of drug and alcohol abuse among African American, which can be ascribed to factors such as feelings of oppression and social discrimination. (Washington & Moxley, 2003, p.146) As one study clearly states, among the factors that influence drug and alcohol use in this group are"...sociodemographic status, race and ethnicity, interpersonal relationships, and life events....(Lucas, Goldschmidt & Day, 2003, p. 273) Studies also reiterate these points with regard to prenatal alcohol abuse. " Ethnicity and race have been identified as significant correlates of prenatal alcohol use. One study found that that "...African American women were more likely to continue to drink throughout pregnancy than were white women." (Lucas, Goldschmidt & Day, 2003, p. 273)"
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African-American Religion, 2007.
This paper describes the role of African-American churches in organizing the black community during the Civil Rights Movement.
2,351 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This paper argues that African-American churches served as the foundation for the African-American struggle for civil rights during the 20th century. The author traces the history of the churches, focusing on their importance socially as well as spiritually to the community. The author is somewhat critical of mainstream Christianity and its exclusion of Blacks. The paper concludes by citing major Black religious figures in America and acknowledging that religion has impacted African-American history from a highly diverse set of directions.
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"Still, the notion that the Christian Church has been a leading force in the movement towards social change for the African American has not gone unchallenged. Some have contended that the Christian Church as acted as an opiate for generations to the African American people. One critic stated, "Instead of cursing the white man, [blacks] shout at the Lord. Instead of kicking whitey, [blacks] kick over the pew." Those who believe that the African American Church acts as an opiate to the black sub-culture contend that it induces many individuals to appeal to God for social change, when, more realistically, they should be acting to bring about social change themselves; in other words, they believe that the church provides an outlet for black people's frustrations, so they can be directed away from actions that might elementally undermine the current radicalized American social system. Eventually, a scientific study conducted by Gary Marx in the 1960's attempted to find any correlation between the level of religious fervor of black Americans and their associated beliefs regarding the Civil Rights movement: "Specifically, Marx established that in his sample, the greater the subjective importance of religion to black respondents, and the more often they went to church, the less militant they were in support of the civil rights issues." Even more recent theorists have agreed with the assessment of the role of the African American Church in social activism; arguing that it is centrally a device for passivity and control."
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African-American Culture, 2008.
A descriptive perception of African-American culture and its relationship to American society.
1,624 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 36.95
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The paper discusses African-American culture and states that race is about a social construct rather than being biological, since society has a different set of rules for each racial group. Furthermore, the paper states that there is no alternative conceptualization of race that it would advocate, because it is a social construct. This is due to the fact that society has defined what is expected of each racial group, a factor that has nothing to do with biological aspects of being white or black . The paper concludes that despite the struggles, African Americans have contributed to the foundations of American events through culture and music.
Outline:
Introduction
Civil Rights
Music
Conclusion
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"African Americans are settled in the United States, however some do not receive the same education and treatment as white students due to the fact that they are viewed as a minority race Furthermore, because of their lack culture acknowledgement from teachers, sometimes African American students require educational intervention, which is actually lacking knowledge in their culture even though they have settled in the United States for hundreds of years. "The bar graphs below illustrate the divergent fortunes of America's minorities in terms of living in the best neighborhoods. Asian-American are over-represented (compared to their percentage of all Americans) in every category... particularly in wealthy urban neighborhoods. African-Americans are much less likely to be found in either central cities or suburbia. Hispanics have penetrated the nations best neighborhoods more broadly and deeply than Blacks, but are still woefully under represented in America's landscapes of wealth" (A Racial Summary: Great Info & Bar Graphs). Even though African Americans are still considered a minority group, they have made a historical reputation through culture and music."
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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, £ 46.95
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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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