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    decades of inequality and civil abuse. Reparations should be given to many races not just African Americans. African Americans have went through a mass amount of suffering for centuries‚ mental and physical stress. African Americans have suffered for centuries prior to “freedom” and were continued to be treated with extreme prejudice and a mast amount of inequality. It isn’t just about reparations for African Americans‚ it’s far much

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    Norma Sklarek Was The First African American Women To Earn An Architect’s License In The State Of New York. Not Only Did She Build A Lasting Career In A Field Dominated By White Men. She Was Also An Advocate For More Women In The Field. Later In Her Career‚ She Started Her Own All Woman Architect Firm. Norma Sklarek Was Born On April 15‚ 1926‚ In New York City. Sklarek Was A Bright Student‚ Who Did Well At Hunter High An All Girls Magnet School That Catered To New York City’s Smartest Students. She

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    That’s White People Stuff: Plastic Surgery‚ Body Modification and the African American Community That’s White People Stuff: Plastic Surgery‚ Body Modification and the African American Community Body modification has existed around since the beginning of time. Modifications have generally been used to mark the social position of an individual in a manner visible and recognized by other members of society. That similar modifications are interpreted very differently from one culture to the next

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    contemporary African American identities based on how they represent themselves. This is due to the fact it promotes an unhealthy lifestyle towards attitudes and behaviors of American Youth. In addition‚ it teaches African American youth to use profanity. Furthermore‚ American youth do not have a role model when listening to hip-hop. To began with‚ hip hop promoted an unhealthy lifestyle. African American youth look up to hip-hop

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    Analyse the relationship between African American Cinema and Hollywood exploring the effect on ethnic representation in 2 key films Today on the surface at least it is possible to say that black actors have reached stardom comparable to and in some instances well beyond their white counterparts. Will Smith is the current favourite for the blockbuster action movie moving away from his ethnic buddy movies such as Men in Black and Wild Wild West. There have been Academy awards for actress Halley

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    Gender Differences in the Educational Expectations of African American Youth. Despite considerable gains in the African American population over the past 30 years‚ males have made less progress than females‚ particularly with respect to higher education. At Excel High School‚ gender education achievement gaps exist amongst all ethnicities‚ however the gap between girls and boys widens significantly when looking particularly at African American students. According to the 2008-2009 data information

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    Music is the voice of the struggle of African Americans. It has propelled the black culture to voice their feelings on brutal reality of the world. From the past to the present‚ African Americans still face circumstances‚ for example‚ police ruthlessness‚ bigotry and correspondence issues. These subtitles are the standard issue with the African American culture in this day and time. Music gave a spirit for African Americans to express their dissatisfaction and agony managing different issues to lash

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    Joel Blackmore WHY DID SOME AFRICAN AMERICANS REJECT NONVIOLENCE? Black protest in America in the 1960s developed into two opposing stances‚ the non-violence of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the violent protests of the urban poor blacks and black power organisations in the North. In the early 1960’s the main protest form was the Civil Rights movement. This was predicated on non-violent protest. It fo0lowed the principles of non-violence successfully used by Mahatma Gandhi in India

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    Majority of the African American migrating North wrote letters to the Urban League‚ an organization that has helped many other African Americans migrate north. “Founded in New York City in 1911‚ the National Urban League (NUL) was the most important of the new social service agencies formed especially to address urban black conditions.” (Brown‚ p127) Along with the assistance from the NUL many migrants also wrote to a newspaper designed for African American readers‚ the Chicago Defender. Each migrate

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    From 1865 to 1900‚ African American freedoms were very limited socially. Black Codes said that African Americans could not marry anyone that is white. If someone that was black was not generally attracted to their own race or vice versa‚ they were unable to marry who they wanted to. The Ku Klux Klan burned many houses of African Americans as well as the white people that wanted to help them. If you were in any way positively involved with black people‚ the KKK would find a way to basically ruin your

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