African American Culture Essays
African American Life After Civil War
IntroductionAfter the end of civil war in 1865 African-Americans started a new life. There was a change in relationship between the white Americans and Mulattos, in…
Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes’ Approaches…
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Booker T Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were the two great leaders of the black community. They however…
Symbolism in A Raisin in the Sun
Symbolism plays a crucial role in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun to illustrate the impacts of prejudice on the realization of success. Hansberry wrote…
Police brutality against African Americans
ABSTRACTThe historic tragic deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement officers has been a subject that has generated public debate and heightened the…
Booker T. Washington
IntroductionBooker Taliaferro Washington was one of the primary African-American leaders of the 19th and the 20th centuries. Mr. Washington is best known as the Educator. He…
Repairing America after slavery
At present, after numerous efforts to make sure that there is civil rights movement, the African Americans record the highest number of infant mortality rates, unemployment…
Claudette Colvin
As a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement, Claudette Colvin has cemented herself in the American history books warranting her enshrinement through a statue. Her most…
Criticism of ‘Sonny’s Blues’
Sonny’s Blues is a short-story reflecting on the struggles of African-American youth in America and especially Harlem. The short story centers on the life of the…
Reconstruction exploratory essay
Goals of African-Americans in the South, whites in the South, and white NorthernersReconstruction was one of the turbulent and controversial eras in the American history. The…
How the African American culture and racism affect Fences
IntroductionThe play Fences by August Wilson is set in the 1950s and focuses on the life of Troy who is a 53-year-old struggling to make ends…
Freedom and equality in the 20th century
The Civil Rights Movement saw African-Americans designing strategies that they deemed suitable in helping them fight the discriminative laws (segregation) in the United States. One of…
The male figure in Fredrick Douglass’ “The Heroic Slave”
Black slaves were subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of their slave masters. White slave masters had to reduce the black African slaves to inferior…
August Wilson’s Fences Analysis
The 20th century experienced a substantial amount of literary production that explored the cultural experiences and events of the dynamic time period. Some of the most…
African Americans in film and television
IntroductionThe United States has become increasingly diverse over the years. However, television programs and Hollywood films tend to paint a different picture since the people of…
Social-ecological model and cancer
IntroductionThe prevalence of certain types of cancer seems to vary among various subgroups concerning race, ethnicity, and age among others. Breast cancer particularly is the most…
African American Women and “Colorism”
INTRODUCTIONBackgroundIdeally, the term “colorism” is based on the belief that one type of skin color is more superior to another (Hersch, 2002). In many cases, the…
Racial profiling of African American males in New York
AbstractRacial profiling is a common offense that is committed by the law enforcers against the African-American males in the United States. Racial profiling refers to the…
Special needs students in poor urban schools
Special needs children are children that need assistance because of a medical, mental or a psychological condition so as to be able to learn and develop. …
Comparison between African Americans and the whites during the Great…
The great depression began in 1929 and ended in 1939. It was one of the most horrible economic regressions in the industrialized world. The great depression…
Ethnicity in the United States
In the society, a person’s identity is ascribed to various aspects such as behavior, mode of dressing, culture, religious beliefs, and origin. When combined together, all…