Academic papers on Black Social Issues, Politics & Philosophy

Black Political Power in the United States: Where To Next?
A nine-page research paper on the problem African-Americans have had in gaining economic and political parity in the United States, with particular reference to the institution of 'majority-minority' voting districts. Included is the failure of the...
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Dr. W.E.B. Dubois, A Leader Among Leaders
A well written ten page paper on one of the greatest Black leaders in American history. Follow his career from being the first African American to earn a Harvard Ph.D. to Ghana where he eventually renounced his US citizenship. His idea and literary...
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Topics in Philosophy
This 5 page paper contains two parts, the first of which is a mock dialog between Mill and Nietzsche regarding morality. Issues pertinent to individuality and power are included. The second half of the paper contains a review of an article written...
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Frederick Douglass, Citizenship And The Dred Scott Decision
Two documents - the 'Fourth Of July' speech by Frederick Douglass in 1852 and the opinion of Justice Taney in the Dred Scott versus Sanford case of 1857 are, in essence, declaring the same thing - that blacks of the pre-Civil War era do not have...
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Traps in History
(3 pp) Author, James Baldwin claims that, 'James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare
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J.Anthony Lukas: Common Ground, A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. (1985)
(5pp) Common Ground: covering a great deal more than its subtitle suggests, is a huge non-fiction study of Boston in the 1970's, when it was under the pressure of court-ordered busing to achieve school desegregation. The three families J....
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Desegregation: A Work in Progress
( 5 pp) The federal mandate of racially integrated schools began over forty years ago. Some schools, particularly in the South, were able to ward off compliance, for decades. Unfortunately, the desegregation of schools has been predicated...
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Substance Abuse, Poverty And The African American
This 9 page paper addresses the relationship between poverty, substance abuse and being a Black American in terms of how treatment may address these issues in a productive manner. The viewpoint of systems theory as well as personal construct...
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Urban Crime + Racial Residential Segregation
(8pp- text and outline) The question posed: does urban crime increase when or where racial residential segregation exists. The unit of analysis is segregated neighborhoods. The independent variable is segregation of race. The dependent...
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Race and Class as Related to Theories of Inequality
This 5 page report discusses Harry Kitano
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Boston Irish/ Racial Tension
A 5 page research paper that examines the causes, and history, behind the busing crisis in Boston relative to school integration in the mid-1970s. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Freedom And Amistad
This 6 page paper explores the idea o freedom as presented in the Amistad incident and pertaining to slavery as well as the rights of the individual. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Criminal Sentencing: White, Black, and Mental
(8 pp). What we will be looking at in this discussion are basically two issues, that have somehow become enmeshed: According to Davis (1998), more than 70 percent, of the imprisoned population, are people of color. It is rarely...
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Urban Crime + Racial Residential Segregation.
(8pp-includes outline) The question posed: does urban crime increase, when or where, racial residential segregation exists? The unit of analysis is segregated neighborhoods. The independent variable is segregation of race. The...
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Creating & Defining the African American Community: Family, Church, Politics and Culture
(5 pp). This is a tutorial speech written for someone who has been asked to moderate an evening during Black History Month. Bibliography lists 3 sources: many quotes from prominent blacks.
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