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Racial Uplift: Acculturation to the Dominant Culture in Contending Forces by Pauline E. Hopkins
October 27, 2011 - 3306 words | African-American Studies » African-american Literature
Domestic fiction reigned in women’s literature during the nineteenth-century. These narratives defined ”True Womanhood,” where the female exemplified four pillars: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. They are meant to reject the public... Read Article »

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African-American Literature Literary Criticism Acculturation Dominant Culture
Remembering Tuskegee: Comparing Two Approaches to Studying the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
October 13, 2011 - 2809 words | African-American Studies »
History selectively chooses which events in our past gain notoriety in the present. This selectivity has some basis in the events’ significance, but it is also related to our natural curiosity about the past. Unfortunately, for many, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments... Read Article »

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Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Civil Rights Ethics Institutional Review Boards Fred Gray Susan Reverby
Duke Ellington's Jazz Narrative of the African-American: Black, Brown, and Beige
June 29, 2011 - 1954 words | African-American Studies » Jazz
To assume the task of narrating the history of an overtly oppressed race is a daunting responsibility. Nonetheless, Edward Kennedy Ellington undertook this task in composing the multi-movement jazz suite Black, Brown, and Beige. Originally debuted at Carnegie Hall... Read Article »

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African American Studies Duke Ellington Jazz Mahalia Jackson
Vehicles for Story: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on Defining African Literature, Preserving Culture and Self
May 20, 2011 - 3011 words | African-American Studies » African Literature
The historic 1962 conference at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda brought together scholars and writers from various parts of the continent to discuss the state of African literature: who should write it, what it should depict, and – of central importance... Read Article »

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African Literature Chinua Achebe Ngugi Wa Thiong'o African Culture
Slavery and Religion in the Antebellum South
January 24, 2011 - 2554 words | African-American Studies » Slavery
For many decades, scholars have debated the importance of religion in helping slaves cope with the horrible experience of slavery in the antebellum South. However, the way they treated the subject differs and the conclusions they reached are varied. From the early... Read Article »

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Slavery Slaves And Religion Antebellum South Religion Of Slavery American Slavery African American Traditions
The X Factor: How Malcolm X Internationalized the Civil Rights Movement
April 15, 2010 - 2051 words | African-American Studies » Civil Rights Movement
“You don’t do any singing, you’re too busy swinging”[i]. Thus spoke Malcolm X. He promulgated the new paradigm of anti-nonviolence[ii] he helped popularize during the 1960s. It had been around a decade since Brown v. Board of Education overturned... Read Article »

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Movement CRM Martin Luther King John Lewis Pan Africanism
Slavery Plays Jump-Rope with Racism: Examining the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
December 10, 2009 - 4303 words | English » Phillis Wheatley
Children’s literature in the context of this research paper (and hopefully too in the eyes of the majority) is the ultimate escape; it is neither box nor leash nor constraint of any sort. It is the one genre of literature that does not hold itself to a predetermined... Read Article »

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Racism African American Studies Slavery Children's Literature Phillis Wheatley Marilyn Nelson Emett Till Phillis Wheatley
Stamp Paid and the Power of Self-Actualization in Beloved
November 12, 2009 - 2803 words | English » Beloved
A character in Toni Morrison's Beloved whose crucial importance to both the plot and thematic intent of the book is Stamp Paid. He is a character with limited space devoted to him, but whose every action is a catalyst for the book as a whole. He is a highly admirable... Read Article »

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Toni Morrison Beloved Self-Actualization Slavery Race Identity Stamp Paid
In Search of Manhood: The Black Male's Struggle for Identity and Power
November 3, 2009 - 5143 words | African-American Studies » Discrimination
Within the cultural framework of America, the systemic structure is characterized by White male patriarchy that allows for Black males to have the ability to negotiate the way in which they have been socialized and institutionalized to think, act, and behave because... Read Article »

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Black Men African-American Males Identity Patriarchy Manhood Oppression African American Black Struggle For Identity And Power
Sermons in Sociolinguistic Skins: An analysis of Wharry's study on discourse markers in African-American sermons
October 22, 2009 - 1722 words | African-American Studies » Sermons
In her article, “Amen and Hallelujah preaching: Discourse functions in African American sermons,” Cheryl Wharry examines the use of “sermonic expressions” by African American preachers to denote textual changes, to mark rhythm (a feature commonly... Read Article »

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Sociolinguistics Sermon African American African-American Ebonic Cheryl Wharry Discourse Discourse Marker
 
 

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