W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes
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A 10 page paper which compares and contrasts the search for black identity in W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Souls of Black Folks” and Langston Hughes’ “The Big Sea.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAhughe.rtf

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Experience
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This 3 page paper looks at W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk as well as what ideas about being black had come from there. The essay goes on to express ideas about the black experience in general. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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W.E.B. duBois' "The Philadelphia Negro"
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A 7 page paper discussing duBois' seminal work. DuBois did not maintain the objectivity of today's researchers in describing his conclusion. His theoretical contribution is that urbanization and concentrated poverty have ill effects on the black race. It contributes to in inordinate overrepresentation of females to males, and it is instrumental in providing a skewed view of employment and employability. Confined to menial jobs, black women were able to find work as domestics but black men had far fewer choices. The same remains too true today. Though details have changed, the overall structure has not. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSphilNegro.wps

W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Souls of Black Folks”: A Structural Functionalist Approach
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A 5 page overview of the meaning and intent of this early twentieth century work. Written from a structural functionalist approach, this paper attempts to use DuBois’ work to define black existence within context of the white society beside which it exists. The author of this paper contends that the ethnic relations illustrated by DuBois were a manifestation of white societies’ tendency to keep their own “family” strong by either weeding out, or preying on the cheap or even free labor of blacks. Blacks, on the other hand, set up their own internal way of interacting with the world which served to preserve their own society. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPduboi3.rtf

Yet I do marvel
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(8pp) examines prominent leaders and movements within a segment of African American literature. Time frame begins with the Abolitionist Movement, includes Larsen's …Tragic Mulatto, and concludes with the Harlem Renaissance. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BBblklit.doc

“Black Moses: The story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association” by Edmund David Cronon
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This 6 page report discusses the life and accomplishments of Marcus Mosiah Garvey who, between 1916 and 1927, led the largest movement in history against racism, against the domination of blacks by whites everywhere. Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) serve as a meaningful connecting point for understanding black America’s centuries-long battle for liberty, fairness, and equality. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWbmoses.rtf

“Coming of Age in Mississippi,” “Black Boy,” and “Native Son”
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A 10 page paper which examines “Coming of Age in Mississippi” by Anne Moody and “Black Boy” and “Native Son” by Richard Wright as they involve finding identity in a hostile society. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAmood.rtf

“Gulliver’s Travels” and “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”
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A 5 page paper which examines the evil effects of greed in Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” and Frederick Douglass’ “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
Filename: RAduggul.rtf

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and “Beloved”
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A 3 page paper which examines how Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” offers the readers a look at slavery that seems to work off of Harriet Jacobs’ non-fictional work “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” No additional sources cited.
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“Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X”
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A five page paper which looks at the philosophies and ideologies of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X, and the ways in which their views regarding black separatism and the promulgation of black culture within a multi-racial community differed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: JLgarveymalcolm.wps

“Mrs. Child’s Reply”
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An 8 page paper which summarizes Lydia Maria Child’s “Mrs. Child’s Reply,” written in 1859 as a reply to accusations from Mrs. Margarette Mason, wife of senator James. M. Mason. In addition to the summary the paper discusses similarities between Child’s work and Linda Brent’s (Harriet Jacobs) “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAchilds.rtf

“The autobiography of Malcolm X and Race Matters”
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A paper which compares the ideas and theories put forward in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Race Matters, by Cornel West, in terms of the ways the two writers view the separatist movement, integration, the need for positive action by blacks, and the role that religion plays in the interaction of different races and cultures.
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