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The Garvey Movement and Black Nationalism, 2005.
An examination of whether the Garvey Movement succeeded in establishing Black Nationalism either as a practical strategy, or as an ideal for African-Americans.
1,744 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper examines how the term 'Black Nationalism' emerged as a sociological phenomenon for African-Americans in the early 20th century and how at the heart of this movement was Marcus Garvey with the U.N.I.A. and the 'Negro World.' It looks at how, although there is no dispute that Garvey was a key figure in Black Nationalist politics of this era, the extent to which Garvey-ism established Black Nationalism either as a practical strategy or as an ideal for African-Americans, is open for discussion.
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"The Black Nationalist ideals of the Garvey Movement became practical strategy through the organisation's economic programme. Garvey envisaged that real political freedom would only be realised by an independent economic base. Garvey called for African Americans to 'go out and acquit ourselves like men in the economic arena.' Independence with 'emphasis on race first, self-reliance and nationhood' would first have to be an economic independence. Garveyism sought to awaken the millions of blacks in the U.S., the Americas, Africa and elsewhere into one vast diaspora of production, trade and political co-operation, with eventual autonomy for the black race."
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Black Muslims and Nation of Islam, 2001.
This paper examines the black Muslim and Nation of Islam movements within the larger context of religious life in contemporary America.
3,345 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper describes the daily lives and culture of the black American Muslim and Nation of Islam communities. The paper defines these groups and their customs and religious rituals. It illustrates the historical leaders of the black Muslim movements, including in depth biographies of Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan. The paper discusses the missionary and racist elements in these movements.
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"Religion is important to many Americans not simply because they believe that their faith will bring them to a better world in the afterlife or because it will guide their actions as a moral and good individual here on earth but also because it provides them with a sense of self-identity. Religion tells people who they are, how they are different from other people, to which community they belong. This may be especially true for black Muslims. This paper examines the black Muslim and Nation of Islam movements within the larger context of religious life in contemporary America and the context of the daily lives of black Americans as we enter the 21st century.
It may be helpful for us toe begin with some basic definitions. Black Muslims are simply those followers of a predominantly black religious movement in the United States who profess Islam as their faith. Not all of the followers of this movement are in fact black, although nearly all of them are black or have a black member of their family (such as a spouse or child) who is involved. The movement encompasses not only spiritual and liturgical aspects of life but political and wide-ranging cultural as well, including an emphasis on economic cooperation and self-sufficiency for black communities and individuals. "
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'Shades of Black - Conrad Black, his Rise and Fall', 2006.
A discussion and review of Richard Siklos's well written biography of Conrad Black's career, "Shades of Black - Conrad Black, his Rise and Fall".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews "Shades of Black: Conrad Black - His Rise and Fall", Richard Siklos's well written biography of Conrad Black's career and dramatic collapse after 2002. The paper explains that Siklos interviewed more than 200 persons before a 1995 edition of which this volume is a revised expansion featuring another 50 interviews. Siklos also spent hours speaking to Black, indirectly attempting to account for his extravagance and need to impress others, atop his drive for power. Much is revealed through Siklos's notes on Black's wife, the former Barbara Amiel. The paper reports that Siklos leads the reader through a summary of Black's family background, his youth in north Toronto's Bride Path area, his expulsion from Upper Canada College, and later, Trinity College School, before Thornton Hall, Toronto.
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James Cone: Black Theology and the Black Christ, 2006.
An analysis of the term theology and the essential concepts of "Black Theology" as it pertains to James Cone's idea of a "Black Christ".
4,374 words (approx. 17.5 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 115.95
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This paper examines how James Cone believes that if blacks, particularly African-Americans, don't wake up and change the traditional American image of Jesus, they will probably never grasp the true philosophy and mission of Jesus. It discusses how African-Americans must see Jesus as a black man that endured the struggle and how it is the duty of black preachers, pastors and theologians to advocate black theology, which includes the black image of Jesus, for the sake and survival of the African-American experience.
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"When one begins to think about God, questions arise as one lacks significant knowledge of God. When one begins to engage in such a dialogue, or entertains such questions, one has clearly entered the community of theology. The articles states: "The attempt to think about God leads immediately to a host of related question which are included under the term theology. First, there is the question of mans relationship to God, the ultimate source of things? Then we must ask about revelation to God, that is, how does man know what God is like? If God must reveal himself where and how is he revealed?" These are prospective questions that man can't escape when thinking about God or in dialogue about God. "
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Two Nations Within a Nation, 2002.
A justification for slavery.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper argues that slavery was good for blacks. The author explains that the moral justification to slavery used by Southerners was that there was an inherent 'inferiority' in dark-skinned peoples. This meant that 'superior' races had a legitimate right to control them as they saw fit.
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Integrationism and African-American Nationalism, 2008.
This paper contrasts the political ideas of integrationism and African-American nationalism during the Civil Rights era.
1,160 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper explains that, during the black civil rights movement, some leaders favored integrationism, which meant that these activists were willing to work with sympathetic whites to achieve their goal of civil rights. The paper points out that other leaders favored African-American nationalism, which meant the opposite of integrationism. The paper relates that, during the first ten years, the movement was mainly integrationist, as modeled by Martin Luther King Jr. King, who favored using non-violent methods, such as sit-ins, to oppose discrimination. The author continues that, by around 1966, the Black Power movement with activists, such as Malcolm X, who favored black self-determination, was growing. The paper states that the African-American nationalism has been accused of being in favor of black supremacy.
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"There is a sad but interesting common factor that is shared by the integrationist movement and African American Nationalism. Although integrationism was much more moderate than African American Nationalism, both were threatening enough to some people in the USA that the most prominent leaders of both movements were assassinated. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee; while Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem."
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The Plight of Blacks, 2004.
A look at black nationalism through the eyes of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from Reconstruction to today.
2,303 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper examines how Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., all served as role models for the survival and independence of Africans living in the United States, as well as around the world. It looks at how, through the auspices of migration, mobilization, and segregation, black history has become inherently associated with economic class and social standing; the problem inherent within legislating against discrimination is a product of social forces. It explores how the ex-slave was denied social freedom in the denial of a place in white society and how the segregation of the slaves from the minds of the whites was based on an underlying assumption that the slaves were not people. It shows how the rights of equality continue to be an issue, even as they were during Reconstruction.
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"Du Bois felt that Washington was asking the Negro people to give up political power, their insistence on civil rights and the right to higher education (Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 285). He contended that, instead, it should be asked of the nation three things, ?the right to vote?, ?civil equality? and ?the education of youth according to ability? (Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 286). In the United States, the role of the government is often defined by the ruling of the courts. Beginning with the Dred Scott versus Sanford case of 1857, the law seemed to side with the principles of discrimination. It decreed, in essence, that blacks of the pre-Civil War era did not have the rights of an American citizen. In 1866, just after the end of the Civil War, the first Civil Rights Act was instituted to help define the intent of the 14th amendment."
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The "Black Cabinet" Of President Franklin D Roosevelt, 2002.
Examines FDR's informal "black cabinet," the people who served in it and its importance to national culture.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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Examines FDR's informal "black cabinet," the people who served in it, and its importance to national culture. New Deal reforms & black support. Black leaders who advised FDR. The President's motive in using black advisers: to use their ideas to remedy racism & to rely on their opinion on a wide number of other issues. Diversity of "black cabinet." Contribution of educator Mary McLeon Bethune & others. Gains made by the NAACP, National Urban League & National Council of Negro Women as a legacy of the "black cabinet."
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"With the entrance of each new administration we now hear about the importance of making the president?s cabinet ?look like America?. That resemblance is never actually achieved, of course, if only because each American has a different idea of what it is that America really looks like. But amid the complex politics of inclusion ? at least when a Democrat is in the White House it is easy to overlook how far it is that we have actually come just over the course of the 20th century in terms of acknowledging that the differing experiences of different racial groups are all valid and that they must be included in an administration if the country is to be well run.
Many people deserve credit for bringing African-American voices into the mainstream of the national political process. But one of the people who deserves a fair measure of credit is often..."
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Black Entrepreneurship, 2007.
This paper discusses the books 'Black Wealth Through Black Entrepreneurship' by Robert Wallace and 'Black Entrepreneurship in America' by Shelly Green and Paul Pryde.
1,159 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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In this essay, the writer examines two books addressing the topic of black entrepreneurship, Robert Wallace's 'Black Wealth Through Black Entrepreneurship' and Shelly Green and Paul Pryde's 'Black Entrepreneurship in America'. The writer notes that both volumes examine the relative lack of wealth in the black community, despite the removal of legal restrictions on black participation in the business area, such as limitations on ownership, hiring and promotion discrimination, and discrimination in lending and capital provision to minority entrepreneurs. The writer discusses that each book analyzes the specific influences on the black community, and possibly the culture, which contribute to this lack of entrepreneurship and capital ownership.
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"Green and Pryde's book more directly addresses the issue, specifically examining social criteria necessary for a business class to be created and the lack of these phenomena in the black community. The need for resources is a major factor in the creation of a business class and in the encouragement of entrepreneurship among a community, and although the black communities tend to have fewer financial resources than their white counterparts, Green and Pryde note that they are far from impoverished as a class. They note that new economic activity tends to spring up where resources, especially money, are available to support it, but in spite of this, the black community has not seen such a spurt of new business ventures. The black community, say Green and Pryde, is not nearly as poor as its cultural mythology and popular culture would have it believe."
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"The Black Man?s Burden", 2004.
A review of the book, "The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-States," written by Basil Davidson.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses Basil Davidson's book, "The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-States," illustrating the inappropriate path towards nationalism in Africa. The paper presents the author's own account and theory about how, in the midst of an almost politically free African region, its peoples have yet to experience true freedom in the sense that they cannot govern themselves effectively, often falling prey to the promises of nationalism, but failing to live the ideal model of a nation-state.
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"Throughout history, the most marginalized race in most countries in the age of capitalism and technological advancement remains to be the African race. Driven to live a life of bondage through slavery in most Western societies and being colonized in their own land, the Africans have not yet defined their true sense of identity as peoples. Instead, what was developed in their psyche is the feeling that they were indeed a race that would inevitably experience prejudice and discrimination in any society in the world."
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Black Women and Feminism, 2006.
This paper reviews and discusses the historic oppression of black women as well as the existing gap between white and black women as detailed in Bell Hooks' "Ain't I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism."
1,320 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explores author Bell Hooks' theoretical perspective on blacks and feminism. Hooks claims that the major cause of oppression to black women came from many sources including white women interested in their own personal gain at the expense of black women and the black men interested in keeping them as second class citizens. This paper discusses the exploitation of women during the slave trade as one of the pioneering ways in the continuing devaluation of black women. The writer contends that Hooks' novel contains relevant research and subsequent evidence that clearly details why a gap still exists between black and white women. The writer of this paper stresses Hooks' desire for all women to bond together and for the struggle for equality to end.
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"In her research of the exploitation of slaves, Hooks' expertly does not focus on the sexual atrocities committed upon black women. She in fact details the effect brutalizing black women has on the black man, white man, and the white woman. Hooks explores the possibilities of the potential personal gain from dehumanizing black women, some of which include stereotypes/jealousy of the sexuality of a black woman, and "demasculating" the black man (psychological removal of his masculinity) in relation to exploiting 'his' woman. Bell Hooks' research into the hypocrisy of the feminist movement as it relates to white woman is the principal reason why many African American women, myself included, do not want any active participation with the women's movement."
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Black Masculinity, 2004.
A discussion of black masculinity and black male identity.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses black masculinity in terms of class and educational achievement.
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The Black Death, 2006.
This paper explores the spread and impact of the black plague in "Black Death" by Phillip Ziegler.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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The paper looks at the basis of the Black Death as defined by Ziegler and offers a cause and effect of the bubonic plague during the 14th century. By realizing how fleas carrying deadly parasites found their way to Europe on the bodies of rats, one can realize the subtle and dangerous nature of this plague. The paper explains that without proper medical knowledge to stop the spread of the disease, it becomes apparent as to why large populations near seaports died from infestation.
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"This historical study will discover the various causes of the spread of the black plague and how it decimated European populations. By realizing the growing problems of disease carried by rats and fleas, the bubonic plague was carried by these vermin into European ports via sea trade. By realizing the massive lack of medical knowledge to prevent the spread of the disease, Ziegler helps to define why this plague became an epidemic that threatened the very survival of European culture. In essence, this study will analyze the causes and results of this devastating "black death," which spread across Europe during the 14th century."
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The Black Church in the 21st Century, 2004.
An analysis of the influences and issues of the black church, the black family, and faith-based ministries in the 21st century.
4,362 words (approx. 17.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 115.95
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This paper examines the key issues surrounding the African-American Church in the year 2005. The paper discusses what new pastors should be learning as they train to become Christian leaders in their communities. The paper also attempts to answer how an aspiring preacher should approach the many social problems that confront the African-American community, which issues are appropriate for associating with sermons or Bible study, and which are better left to small group discussion.
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"Inside the hard-bound cover of Andrew Billingsley's book, Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring legacy of African-American Families, is to be found pages upon pages of the great wisdom and big-picture vision of a man who is highly respected in the academic and scholarly communities, as well as in the black community. To borrow an old advertising slogan, when Billingsley speaks, people listen; and when he writes, people read, and people think deeply about what he expresses. Reading his books helps a young would-be pastor learn how to tell a story that has plenty of power, honesty and relevance, and yet carries with it some degree of entertaining value at the same time."
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Philip Dray's "... The Lynching of Black America", 2005.
This paper discusses Philip Dray book "At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America", which exposes the killing by hanging of Black Americans for committing no other crime than being black.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that the story told by Dray shows how lynching developed, what it was supposed to mean to those carrying it out and what it meant to those targeted including the whole black community, what it meant to reformers and what it continues to mean today as a symbol and terrible mark on American history. The author points out that lynchers are among those who try to force a focus on African-Americans as victims, with the act of lynching itself a deliberate victimization. The paper states that Dray's book, which is informative and frightening at the same time, tells much about the practice, the people involve and the symbolic meaning this era still has for many in America.
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"The title of Dray's book evokes a police report or legal statement by a coroner, as if the crime of lynching were being investigated and the perpetrators slyly exonerated by being listed as "persons unknown," as if unknown when in fact they are known. That has indeed been the pattern for most of these crimes, with the white power structure in the South in particular closing ranks to protect those who lynched blacks because they did not see this as a crime. Dray gives a good account of the history of the era and of the nature of the problem of lynching at different times in American history, beginning with the extralegal actions of Charles Lynch in the late eighteenth century, from whom the name was derived."
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