Racism in Huck Finn Ever since it was written, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn has been a novel that many people have found disturbing. Although some argue that the novel is extremely racist, careful reading will prove just the opposite. In recent years especially, there has b...

Affirmative Action programs promote equal representation of minority groups in the American workplace and public schools. It seeks to remedy the effects of discrimination of specific groups through the force of laws and regulations. In practice, affirmative action can be a passive effort or an agg...

RESTORING THE BIOLOGICAL FAMILY AND THE HUMAN FAMILY: WHITE MALE HEROISM IN THE PATRIOT, GLADIATOR, AND AMERICAN HISTORY X Recently Karen Schneider has argued that in the second half of the 1990s, the genre of "action-thrillers" changed. Whereas in the 1980s the white male hero of suc...

Film critics, industry flaks, and even some black entertainers have tumbled over themselves shouting the praises of Hollywood for picking three blacks for its top awards. They repeatedly toss around the words \"history-making\" to describe the feat. It isn\'t. In 1973, Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield...

If one is to discuss and problem solve an issue, he or she must first know what the issue is truly about. Affirmative action is defined as the equal opportunities given to women, minorities, and small groups so they will have the same tools, education, and allotment to achieve their goals in li...

The Slaves' And The Slaveowners' Views Of Slavery "That face of his, the hungry cannibals Would not have touched, would not have stained with blood;-- But you are more inhuman, more inexorable, Oh! ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania."ShakespeareI chose the topic about slavery...

Affirmative Action As Nick Catoggio went to his mailbox, he knew that his acceptance letter from Harvard University had arrived. Although Nick was nervous, he knew that his hard work in high school had gained him admission into one of the world's most prestigious ins...

In the times of slavery, there were two popular stereotypes of a black female – the loyal mammy and the promiscuous temptress. The former represented an "adamantine, kind, unattractive, and sexless woman" and it justified "abusive treatment of black women on the grounds that th...

Evangelicalism and Liberation To fully analyze and comprehend the effects evangelicalism had on nineteenth century white women and the twentieth century African American an understanding of where this theology evolved from is imperative. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a theology c...

Affirmative Action TodayAffirmative Action programs promote equal representation of minority groups in the American workplace and public schools. It seeks to remedy the effects of discrimination of specific groups through the force of laws and regulations. In practice, affirmative action can be a ...

DIP/MA in BLACK THEOLOGYCan Black Theology create New Black Men?W G SINCLAIRINTRODUCTIONSince the emergence of Black Theology in the 1960s, attempts have been made to characterise it in various ways, one approach seeks to characterise it in terms of its recent history, that is, of its origins in th...

The relationship between media depictions of athletes and actual athletes' persona is extremely complex. There are a number of interacting variables which influence who will be affected, by what material, and in what way. These include: the context in which the athlete is portrayed; the age of ...

If You Get to Heaven Befo' I Do; WEB DuBois's Construct of the Doctrine of Blackness "But back of this still broods silently the deep religious feeling of the real Negro heart, the stirring, unguided might of powerful human souls who have lost their guiding star...and seek in the g...

The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar's final novel, presents a far more critical and disturbing portrait of black America. The work centers on butler Berry Hamilton and his family. After Berry is wrongly charged with theft by his white employers, he is sentenced to ten years of prison labor. His remaining ...

The Color Purple-Walker's Portrayal of MenAlice Walker was made responsible for creating a great deal of conflicted opinions and emotions when she wrote and published the novel, The Color Purple. These opinions grew to a greater scale once it transubstantiated to motion picture format, courtesy of S...

Black Like Me by, john howard GriffinThis paper is a review of the book Black like Me by John Howard Griffin. The book tells the story of a white boy (John Howard Griffin) and his journey through the Deep South as a Black man. He journeys from New Orleans to Alabama in search of a true understand...

*NOTE* This essay was written in a comparison between Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) and a person.Small Town WarfareMany events can happen in a person's life that can affect that person deeply: a death of a family member, moving to another town, conflict between family, an introduction of a person in...

Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state government...

Spike Lee's representation of the severed relations between the racial groups that co-exist in the community of Bed Sty throws the question of "what is the right thing to do" and also "is there such thing as truth," right into our faces forcing us to grapple with them. With the presentation of oppos...

BLACK RAGE: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS Outline Thesis Statement: Throughout the history of the United States, as seen through an analysis of African-American literature and rhetoric, black rage has not only existed, but has grown. As the momentum toward equality is clearly evi...