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    affect their perception of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Previously, black LGBT identity and its salience hierarchy have been understood to be organized in a linear fashion, with their racial identity as primary and all else tertiary to it. Scholars have argued that this unconditional prioritizing of the racial identity among black LGBTs occur due to their resentment towards the mainstream LGBT community as well as fear of or reluctance to challenge prevalent homophobic, anti-LGBT…

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    During the early 20th century, many African-American men and women established lifestyles for themselves, in which would help improve their community, as well as develop independence among the black population. Taking place in the city of Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, many African American scholars, engineers, doctors, lawyers, inventors, bankers, teachers, and businessmen emerged from the momentous " Black Wall Street", creating a group of intelligent wealthy high-profiled individuals. The…

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    The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, James Anderson was published in 1988. It address the historical narrative of the education of African Americans in the Southern states of America. It paints the portrait of the persistent oral culture of African Americans. As a historian, he creatively paints the picture of the culture of African American during the Civil War until the Great Depression. After the Civil War, and the emancipation of slaves, the newly freed men and women had a…

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    Black Aesthetics

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    Dutchman was about a man named Clay, an African American, who was lured by Lula, a White American. Lula ridiculed Clay stating that he was a black man trying to dress and act like a white man. He referred himself as a “Baudelaire” when talking about his college days, meaning that he though he was a “white” poet. So he was…

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    Race And Racism In America

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    For decades, scholars have attempted to analyze issues of race and racism in America. W.E.B. Du Bois contributed greatly to the theoretical body of work related to the intersection of race and class. In the early nineteen hundreds he professed: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line. Although the social environment is ever evolving, in today’s twenty-first century society, this statement still rings true. The passing of time has made it possible for a solid…

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    formally declare independence from Great Britain. Thirteen American colonies were at war with the British Empire at the time when this document was drafted and eventually adopted by congress. This document was a critical instrument in history of the United States as this was considered to be the document that resulted in the creation of an entirely sovereign nation made up of thirteen different states of America. Thomas Jefferson, the third American president, was the first drafter of the…

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    role in terms of transforming the research agenda of Scholar working on the history of Afro-American. Wilson, an eminent Sociologist spent most of his career confronting one of the nation’s most perplexed topic: namely the deep and highly persistent inner city poverty in America. In this both highly acclaimed yet highly controversial book Wilson theorizes that the significance of race is waning, it therefore follows that among African Americans, ‘class’ was comparatively more important in terms…

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    internationally before he became in charge of Harvard’s African-American studies department. Additionally, Gates was an exceptional student who continued to excel academically, he graduated with a degree in history from Yale University in the year 1973. He continued to pursue high education at Clare College, which is a part of the University of Cambridge in England. He obtained his doctorate degree in 1979, making him the first African American to even receive a Ph.D. from this University…

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    Model Minority Myth

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    purpose of this research paper is to explore the psychological effects to Asian Americans of being stereotyped as model minority citizens. I am also interested in how the model minority myth impacts social interactions between Asian Americans and other Americans. The model minority myth is one of the most pervasive ethnic stereotypes in American culture. Research has shown that over ninety-nine percent of Asian American adolescents report an experience of being stereotyped as a model Asian.…

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    During the 18th century, George Bancroft published a ten-volume series called the History Of the United States of America. In this series, he summarizes the past historian viewpoint that the American Revolution just played a role in the evolving of human liberty and affairs, also known as the “Whig view of history.” However; during the late 19th century, historians known as the “imperial school” argued that the revolution was more of a conflict constitutionally with the British Empire, rather…

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