Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments James H. Jones is the author of "Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment." The book was copyrighted in 1981. For two years, in 1974 and 1975, Jones worked closely with Fred Gray, the civil rights attorney who brought the class action suit o...

Nancy E. Turner's novel, The Water and the Blood, focuses on Frosty Summers' life during the Second World War. The war gives Frosty Summers, an open-minded girl with a dysfunctional family, the chance to escape from her hometown Sabine and experience a better life in South California. She ...

In Todd Clifton's funeral speech, IM attempts to liberate himself through the use of rhetorical language. He breaks free of the Brotherhood's "blueprints" by speaking with no set framework, going against the brotherhoods belief in social vs. racial equality by implying Todd was a...

Last of the Mohicans: A Dying Generation The Last of the Mohicans is one of five novels in the Leatherstocking Series, all of which were written by James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper is known to be "one of the nineteenth century's most popular story tellers" because he "presented a...

Last of the Mohicans: A Dying Generation The Last of the Mohicans is one of five novels in the Leatherstocking Series, all of which were written by James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper is known to be "one of the nineteenth century's most popular story tellers" because he "presented a...

Proposal: Would there be a benefit for interracial children having a multiracial box on any application as means of identifying interracial children. Abstract Despite growing numbers, public images of interracial people - who have been part of the American landscape since the first Africans...

Colors bring exuberance and flavor to writing. They capture the reader's attention and fill the novel with expressive and inventive symbols. Toni Morrison possesses an extraordinary artistic talent with writing. Phrases like "blood red squares of velvet," "berry-black lips," and "jungle-r...

Blinded by Hatred The Searchers, filmed in 1956, is considered to be a true masterpiece of American filmmaking. Filled with beautiful images of Monument Valley, its secluded open spaces capture the beauty and the isolating danger of the frontier. This movie tells the emotionally compe...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X sent a message of hope to its audience. Here was a chronology of the life of a black man struggling to first cope and then break away from the white world. Regarded as an extremist by critics for his earlier calls for voicing his then radical thoughts, Malcolm X'...

There are many similarities in plot and theme in Langston Hughes' "Father and Son" and D. H. Lawrence's "The Prussian Officer." While each story is told in a very different style, the general tone is similar in each. The focal point in each story is a relationship between one man in power,...

Flannery O'Connor's short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge" is set during the early 1960's in the South. Not only was this the time of integration, but also, in a sense, the South's moral renaissance - a time to let go of the primitive prejudice and evolve into a tolerant society. However,...

Response to "Demystifying Multiculturalism" Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial issues in education, I believe. Not only is it used in education anymore but also used in government, corporate leaders, and even media. Linda Chavez's, "Demystifying Multiculturalism...

To Kill a Mockingbird: Symbolism of the Mockingbird "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (Lee 90). Harper Lee, a creative novelist, uniquely quot...

Plessy v. Ferguson This was a petition filed in the supreme court of Louisiana in 1896, by Homer Plessy, the plaintiff. He filed this petition against the Honorable John H. Ferguson, judge of The petitioner was a citizen of the United States and a descent meaning he had b...

According to the Webster's Dictionary the definition for assimilation is, "The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture" (13). In the novel Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko provides a reflective examination regarding the effec...

'Double Consciousness' in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man While Johnson was a highly celebrated and versatile literary figure, his most well known work is The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. Even though this title suggests that this work was his story, it was actually a...

Amy Goldich In his Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, James Weldon Johnson explores the meaning of "passing" in an American society. The reader never learns the name of the narrator in the novel, but you learn that it's of little importance. The crisis throughout the novel centers on the ...

Would Anyone Care for Some Puddin' on Their Head??? In Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain takes the different types of irony- verbal, situational, and dramatic- and uses them as an escape. He tries to explain the life of African- Americans through the satire of Caucasians. Set in antebellu...

The Racist Malcolm was a racist, violent Black Man. He has been an anti-white all through his previous life as he had confessed, and has remained the same even after his pilgrimage to Mecca. His thoughts and emotions deny the White man, and he still sees them as hypocrites who try to benef...

Light in August by William Faulkner is a story about three character's lives-Joe Christmas, Lena Grove, and Rev. Gail Hightower- blended to show the consistent struggles. A theme of Light in August, a man's past experiences mold his present and future, is concentrated on Joe Christmas and his rac...

Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson is a controversial commentary on race, identity and social determination. The action of the novel takes place in a small town in Missouri, called Dawson's Landing, in a society in which the relationship between the white people and the black was st...

Which is better: a controlled environment or a free one? For many centuries people have fought for control like the Romans or the Germans while others have fought for freedom like Gandhi or Malcolm X. While all of these examples have been great and famous I believe that a free environment is better ...

Television programs and feature films present an extremely accurate image of my race. As a matter of fact I find myself always taking adventures in time through a telephone booth or trying to find my car the day after a night of binge drinking. In case you didn't notice, I am being facetious, b...

In 1932, The America Government conducted a study of a group of 399 young healthy black males who were part of an U.S. Public Health Service experiment of black men in the late stages of syphilis. The men in the experiment for the most part were illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest coun...

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...