Arguing About Affirmative Action
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This 10 page report discusses Affirmative Action, primarily from the point of view that it should be abolished. Negative arguments are presented in the first half of the paper. The second half refutes those arguments Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Article Analysis: Diversity
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This 4 page paper explicates an article entitled "How Corporate America Came to Recognize Diversity, One Pepsi at a Time," about the success of Pepsi's African-American sales force. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Articulations of Race
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A 6 page research paper/essay that explores the debates between essentialist and instrumentalist conceptualizations in regards to classes and nations and race (Dufour). Basically, essentialism is the belief that specific categories of entities will share a specific set of characteristics, which can be viewed as their “essence.” Contemporary proponents of identity politics oppose essentialism and consider that ethnicity, rather than consisting of fixed traits is a social construct. This examination of literature explores the various ways in which race is articulated, specifically focusing on the differences between those perspectives that are essentialist in nature and those that are instrumentalist, i.e. constructivist, in nature. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Audience Reaction and the Realism of Cinema
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A 5 page discussion of the impact of realism on audience passivity or action when viewing a film. Notes that audiences are the targets of cinematic production, production which combines both audio and video into a medium which require the human element in order to be experienced. Indeed audiences are impacted by both the audio and visual aspects of film. The consequent reaction can vary from one of passive reception to active participation. Uses "The Color Purple" as an example of a film which elicits a significant degree of audience reaction. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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August Wilson’s Plays and the Black Experience
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A 5 page paper which examines how August Wilson’s plays comment on the Black experience and the culture. The plays discussed are “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Fences,” “Joe Turner's Come and Gone,” and “The Piano Lesson.” No additional sources cited.
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Bambara's "The Lesson" And Wolfe's "101 Dalmatians" - How The Narrators Reveal The Struggle To Create And Maintain A Positive Identity In The Face Of A Mainstream Culture That Ignores Or Rejects Them
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10 pages in length. Coming to grips with the harsh reality of racial bias and cultural privilege is a hard pill to swallow for adults who have, by the time they are old enough to forge their own way into the ethnically prejudiced world, learned to some extent to deal with such inequity. However, inflicting innocent, naïve children with the cruelty of racial divide is just about the most unforgiving act inclusive of the many hard lessons youth must learn. Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" and George C. Wolfe's "101 Dalmatians" recount the shocking moments when each story's protagonist was forced to digest an ugly truth so painful that it served to alter the very direction their respective lives ultimately took. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Banks' Black Intellectuals
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This 5 page paper provides a general overview of this work on black intellectuals through the ages. A discussion on race in America is included. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Barriers Faced by African-Americans In Professional Sports Management
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This 15 page paper looks at the barriers that have Blacks have faced and continue to face in working in management roles in professional sports. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Bebe Moore Campbell: Your Blues Ain't Like Mine.
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(5 pp) The time is the fifties in the rural South; every one had a "code," often in is racially imprinted, but it can come from one's family just as well, and it certainly may not have anything to do with the person that you want "to be" when you grow up. We will look at that historic puzzle and its remnants in Bebe Moore Campbell's novel Your Blues Aint Like Mine. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Being Black or Latino in America
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A 7 page research paper that addresses the persistence of racial inequalities in the US, with a particular emphasis on the public school system. The writer examines Ronald Takaki's 'A Different Mirror,' and Jonathan Kozol's 'Savage Inequalities,' two books that depict what it is like to be born black or Latino in the United States. Takaki's book discusses American history from the standpoint of these two minorities. Kozol makes it clear in his book that inequalities still abound. No additional sources cited.
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Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"
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This 7 page paper discusses Bennett's book "Before the Mayflower," a history of Black Americans. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Betty Friedan, bell hooks And Alice Walker: Contributions To African-American Society
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10 pages in length. There have been myriad contributions made to forward the progression of the African-American society, however, one might readily surmise that none have had both the power and influence to enact such change as what has come from the literary world. Betty Friedan, bell hooks and Alice Walker are but three of numerous printed voices who have played an integral role in significantly impacting positive change amidst an otherwise racially ruled society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Billingsley's Black Families in White America
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This 5 page paper examines this 1968 classic work that disputes the controversial Moynihan Report. The black family is highlighted but general changes in family life are duly noted. No additional sources cited.
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Binge Drinking, Ethnicity, and Race
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A 10 page paper which first defines binge drinking as the drinking of excessive amounts of alcohol in one episode and then identifies it as a phenomena is of serious concern in that it is not only life threatening but is increasing on a world wide basis. Asserts that while alcohol consumption man be decreasing among adults in many countries, the propensity for youth to engage in binge drinking appears to be increasing. Contends that an individual’s propensity for binge drinking is believed to be directly related to their ethnicity and/or race. Summarizes several studies which would appear to support that contention. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Black And White, Incarceration, Discrimination
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This 8 page paper argues that racism and discrimination that is imbedded in the social reality is reflected in the statistics of prison populations where blacks and other minorities are found in disproportionate numbers. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Black Children in Eugenics Theories
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A 14 page research paper that examines the eugenics theories formulated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to rationalize white supremacy by picturing blacks as inferior. The writer discusses how these quasi-scientific theories always interpreted data to support racial bias, with a particular focus on the use of black children in such literature. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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