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African American Communities/New South
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A 3 page essay that draws on Armstead Robinson's essay "Plans Dat Comed From God," which addresses the question of how newly freed slaves managed the problems of self-support. Among other findings, Robinson's research shows that there was a distinct schism in the black community in Memphis during the Reconstruction era. Robinson maintains that during this time "urban communities developed a split institutional personality," which mirrored emerging social-class distinctions within these communities (73). No additional sources cited.
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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 and Child Rearing
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This 4 page paper discusses the impact of African-American culture on child rearing, and what educators and workers might do to educate families about it. Bibliography lists 4 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.
Filename: PPblkAd3.rtf

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.
Filename: RAafamedu.doc

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.
Filename: khaaev.rtf

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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African American Families: Resiliency and Pathology Perspectives
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of basic pathology and resiliency perspectives regarding African American families. This paper provides an overview of the perspectives presented in the current literature, especially as they relate to the tendency to evaluate African American families in terms of their dysfunction and pathology rather than resiliency. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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