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Nathan Irvin Huggins' "Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal In Slavery": How African Euro-American Cultures Contributed To The Creation Of A United States Slave Culture
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5 pages in length. Defined as a spiritual wandering or quest, the significance of Nathan Irvin Huggins' title "Black Odyssey" speaks to the notion of struggle amidst pursuit of a life embraced by freedom. Indeed, Huggins' treatment of how African-Americans evolved from the slave trade is indicative of a much more significant challenge than most will ever realize; in essence, the author illustrates the dichotomy of slavery within an otherwise free and democratic society by transporting readers back in time when the color of one's skin was the only determining factor that cast the black community into enslavement. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCslav.rtf

National Endowment for Black America
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A 4 page analytical essay in which the writer argues that a National Endowment for Black America would be a private institution-the private, race-specific branch of a strategy whose public branches are race-neutral. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Affirmal.wps

Negritude
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5 pages in length. The social, cultural and political events that helped to shape the concept of Negritude for Leopold Sedar Senghor, Leon Damas and Aime Cesaire were vast and far-reaching when it came to sculpting their individual interpretations of the word. In short, the birth of Negritude was the birth of Black Consciousness and the Harlem Renaissance, which was hastened by the need for the African community to be recognized for its beneficial and inherent contributions. Spawning a significant literary movement in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s comprised of French-speaking African and Caribbean writers, Negritude opened up an entirely different view of blacks that had never before been considered. The writer discusses what Negritude represented to the individual writers. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TLCnegri.doc

NEGRO SPIRITUALS AND THEIR IMPACT
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This 3 page paper discusses the impact of the Negro Spiritual on American culture and musical forms. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBspirit.rtf

Nelson Mandela and Self Identity:
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This 14 page paper discusses the life of Nelson Mandela in terms of his autobiography. Furthermore, this paper considers the relationship between the self and the social through references to relevent social sciences literature. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
Filename: GSNelson.rtf

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga: The Theme of Colonialism
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This 6 page paper assesses the theme of colonialism as it is presented in Tsitsi Dangarembga's work Nervous Conditions. This paper assesses the importance of colonialism in defining the characteristics of the protagonist, and then defines the correlation between Dangarembga's views and existing perspectives on colonial rule in Africa. No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHColon4.wps

Nonfiction and Fiction: African American Evolution
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A 5 page paper which examines three works which have contributed to the evolution of the African American. Two of the works are nonfiction and one work is fiction. The works discussed are “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” by Douglass, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs, and “Beloved” by Toni Morrison. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAslvafr.rtf

Northern Blacks/Civil War-A Historiography
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An 8 page research paper that offers a brief historiography of the impact of the civil war on northern blacks. The writer offers examples of historical scholarship from the nineteenth century, but largely focuses on contemporary scholarship. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khhisnb.rtf

Northup's Twelve Years a Slave
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This 6 page paper examines this work by a former slave. The story involves a man named Solomon Norhtup who was kidnapped and sold into slavery during the mid-1800s. This memoir serves to relay a great deal of information about slavery. An overview of the work is provided. No additional sources cited.
Filename: SA51512.rtf

Notes on Frederick Douglass' "Narrative"
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A 4 page paper discussing Douglass' necessity of making his white audiences understand that he was not highly unusual among the slaves of the South. Though not "typical" at all in his level of intelligence and his insight into the true nature of events and conditions, Douglass nonetheless competently won white audiences to his point of view in convincing them that his ability to escape and to speak to them was as attributable to circumstance as to his own abilities. The paper also addresses Douglass' theology and his need for writing the Appendix to explain his position on Christianity. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSDouglass2.wps