Hugo Black: From KKK to Civil Rights
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15 Pages. Hugo Black was born in Alabama in 1886. After getting a law degree he spent time practicing law and then Black, an active Democrat, was elected to the United States Senate in 1926. Black was known to be a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. The most interesting thing about this man elected to the Supreme Court was that he once was active in the Ku Klux Klan. Once on the Supreme Court Bench however, Black lost all racist and prejudiced views. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Invisible Cultures
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Existence, like culture, is constructed from the experiences of the individual and is shaped by the physical, social, and political contexts of life as experienced by the group. This 5 page paper argues that Ralph Ellison in The Invisible Man, W. E. B. Du Bois in Spiritual Strivings, Leslie Marmon Silko in Ceremony and Amiri Baraka in Blues People each see the theme of invisibility from a cultural conflict based on subjugation, assimilation, appropriation, extermination and, or, dispossession. No additional sources are listed.
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Invisible Man
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A five page paper which looks at race and gender relationships in Ellison's 'Invisible Man', with particular reference to the protagonist's experience of the 'Woman Question' during his time with the Brotherhood. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Is Affirmative Action Constitutional?
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6 pages in length. The real life application of affirmative action is anything but what it was originally designed to address. Double standards are prevalent throughout educational institutions as minority groups have been instrumental in taking advantage of a system that was supposed to offset racial discrimination, not make it worse from the other direction. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Is Repatriation A Viable Alternative For African-Americans?
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7 pages in length. The writer discusses that while America may still house the greatest variety of peoples, there has been a renewed focus toward repatriation within the African-American community. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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J.Anthony Lukas: Common Ground, A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. (1985)
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(5pp) Common Ground: covering a great deal more than its subtitle suggests, is a huge non-fiction study of Boston in the 1970's, when it was under the pressure of court-ordered busing to achieve school desegregation. The three families J. Anthony Lukas focuses on include only a handful of the hundreds of people in a multilayered account of the moral fabric of a city and the vastly different social universes of its neighborhoods. Eventually the turmoil surrounding the desegregation efforts is seen in the context of history, not just national history, or that of Boston, but the history of the little villages cities are made up of, and in many cases even the histories of individuals.
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Jamaica and the Music - mon!
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(6 pp.) According to an internet site labeled "fantasy tours," Jamaica is "eternal summer." So it only makes sense that it would have "hot music." But we also learn, "the island" "has rugged mountain ranges, with Blue Mountain Peak, the highest point, soaring 7,402 feet. It has miles of white beaches, bordered by the blue Caribbean. It has 120 rivers flowing from the mountains to the coast. And it has great central plains, fertile agricultural lands, towering cliffs, magnificent waterfalls, and dense tropical forests." What that tells us is our "hot music," still has a lot of varied cultural influences. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” -- Eulogy for his Father
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This 5 page report discusses writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) Notes of a Native Son and the ways in which it blends the most fundamental issues of race with the heartache of one father and son’s relationship. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain’s “Democracy on Trial” and Cornel West’s “ Race Matters”
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A 9 page overview of the similarities and differences which exist between the ideologies of these two noted authors. While West attributes societal problems to our government, particularly the problems we are currently seeing in the African American community, Elshtain sees those problems as a result of individual choices. West sees advantages in a socialist system of government while Elshtain values the democratic system which is currently in place. No additional sources are listed.
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John Singleton’s “Higher Learning” (1995)
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This 5 page report discusses the 1995 movie, “Higher Learning,” director John Singleton’s third movie, that offers a look into the lives and minds of a group of young people from different countries, races, and social background. They find themselves in integrated circumstances as all enroll in Columbus University. Students who are already dealing with the expectations of high performance in the classroom, on the track, or in front of their friends, are strained to the breaking point by each other’s prejudice, inexperience, and misunderstanding, as well as their own “coming of age” issues and stressors. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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John Stuart Mill and Charles R. Lawrence on Race
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This 5 page report discusses the viewpoints of the 19th century philosopher, John Stuart Mill who was certain that the highest normative principle is that, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness” and the modern writer and legal scholar, Charles R. Lawrence who believes that “racist speech is peculiarly deserving of curtailment.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane and My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
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This 5 page paper considers the experiences presented in Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane and My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan, and assesses the way in which each of the individuals presented viewed the white world relative to the prejudice in South Africa under Apartheid rule. This paper considers the importance or significance of the use of violence in both works and the impacts that violence had in perpetuating the status of both whites and blacks. No additional sources cited.
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