Hate crimes has been a tragic part of American history. Hate crimes are violent acts consciously directed against people, property or organizations because of the group to which they belong are identified with. These crimes have also been associated with how long sentences should be for these c...

In her book, Fair describes many significant ways in which people usedress, music, and sport to challenge the inherited social order, and toredefine race, ethnicity, gender, and class. The book covers the time fromthe end of WWII back to the 1990s. During that time, Zanzibar experiencedrapid...

Since arriving on the shores of the United States, the experience of the African American individual has been a turbulent, convoluted struggle for full rights as citizens. Through the use of many strategies, blacks in the United States have reached parity with whites in terms of social and political...

Claude McKay was a born in 1890 in Jamaican. The novelist and poet waswell educated having studied at both Tuskegee University and the Universityof Kansas. As a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance, McKay is bestremembered for his racially themed poetry with popular works such as thevol...

What starts with pandemonium concludes with pandemonium in this story about spending a lifetime completely unnoticed by society. The Invisible Man by Ralph Waldo Ellison traces one African-American man's constant struggle to be "seen" by his Caucasian peers. It describes the drawbacks and benefits o...