Affirmative Action’s Continuing Relevance
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A 4 page paper discussing the current relevance of affirmative action initiative in light of organizations’ discovery of the benefits of the diverse workforce. The goal, however, should be to discourage discrimination of any kind. In this light, businesses should strive to build workforces more diverse than the law requires. Not only is it good for business in general, it also allows the organization greater freedom in hiring so that it can first select candidates based on qualification, rather than on demographic characteristics. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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African American Cultural Continuity
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A 5 page paper which examines African-American cultural continuity and how it has remained essentially the same since the 1960s. The African-American community is examined from the inside and outside -- how they regard other cultural groups and how whites and Hispanics view them. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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African American Culture in the Media: Ebonics and Advertising
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A 4 page discussion of how African American culture is being reflected in the media. Television advertising is particularly interesting in this regard in that there is a greater and greater tendency to produce advertisements using ebonics, a form of communication developed by the African American community. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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African American Distrust of U.S. Government Medical Policies
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This 7 page paper argues that given past history, and in particular the event known as the "Tuskegee experiment" or the "Tuskegee study," blacks' fears of government medical policies are understandable. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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African American Education
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A 10 page paper which discusses the general conditions of African American education, both past and present. Issues addressed include the miseducation and diseducation of African Americans, reasons behind the approaches, history of African American education, relevancy to today's education system, and what the current conditions of African American education are. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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African American Education/Before and After Jim Crow
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A 10 page research paper that examines the state of black education before, during and after the era of the infamous 'Jim Crow' laws, which served to keep blacks oppressed in the South and which provided public education with the 'separate but equal' philosophy, which was such a travesty of justice.. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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African American English Vernacular/Evolution
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An 8 page research paper that explores the evolution of African American English Vernacular (AAEV) as a dialect of English, discussing the controversy among linguists over its origins, as well as its linguistic structure and similarities between AAEV and West African languages. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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African American Experience: Before and After 1865
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A 6 page paper which discusses how the African American experiences changed in 1865 as it concerned laws and specific court cases. The paper discusses reactions from African Americans in relationship to these changes. One of these changes involves the emancipation proclamation, reconstruction, civil rights struggles in the 1860s and the 1960s. One of the most famous court cases discussed is that of Plessy v. Ferguson. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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