African American Literature
Examining the Portrayal of Family in Twentieth Century African American Literature: Theory and Practice for the High School English Classroom
... century African American literature on the theme of family ...The literature in this unit allows students to explore numerous questions about family: What does it mean to be a family? Who can ...
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Reading through the Lens of Music: African-American Literature and Music
... is African-American by constructing in this way what is ...and literature are creating a form of free expression for African-American literature; a free form probably going ...
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Staging Civil Rights: African American Literature, Performance, and innovation
... Staging Civil Rights builds on this triangulated paradigm of revealing in which literature and performance can “furnish forth” that which is new, that which more closely approximates a certain “truth.” It takes ...
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"Reciprocity is everything": The Female Journey to Elective Bonding in African-American Literature
... the African- American ...by African-American women – Gayl Jones’s Corregidora (1975), Opal Palmer Adisa’s It Begins with Tears (1997) and Pearl Cleage’s What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary ...
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To Belong or Not to Belong?: A Literature Review to Determine the Past, Current, and Future States of the African American Canon
... Hughes asserted that self-love and love of community must start within the writer and each must choose his or her own path from the richness of Black culture to express it; however, the older generation of critics and ...
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Afro-American Literature: The Howard Contribution
... This new requirement for undergraduate students at the university raises again the question of the place of Afro-American courses at Howard—a question which goes back to the beginning of the university in the ...
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THE AFRICANITY OF AFRICAN LITERATURE AND ORALITY OF AFRICAN ORATURE IN A WORLD OF CHANGE
... Literature constantly depicts man and his environment and the true origin and story of man and his environment can best be told through their ...literature. Literature across ages and continents has ...
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Comparative Study of the Idea of Mother in Contemporary African and African-American Poetry
... The Yoruba proverb says, "mother is gold." Most of the images of mother in contemporary African poetry derive their emotional intensity from traditional culture's reverence for m[r] ...
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Improving the Academic Achievement of African American Males: A Case Study of African American Male Perceptions of Attempted Instructional Strategies
... When African American children fail, drop out of school, or are suspended from school, neighborhoods are put at risk because these youth become vulnerable to engaging in crime and ...
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Transcendentalism. ENG 11: American Literature
... center of the universe - and in an individual can be found the clues to nature, history and, ultimately, the cosmos itself.. It is not a rejection of the.[r] ...
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The Role of African American Women in American Society (XIX-XX Centuries)
... Diaries played a huge role in the Civil War years. “It stimulated more women and men to keep diaries than any other single event in American history. Unlike diaries writing, since the late nineteenth century, most ...
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Using Adaptive Intelligence and African American Learning Styles to Improve Literacy of African American Students of Low Socioeconomic Status
... African American students of low socio-economic status take the back seat where literacy is ...these African American communities, on a flawed and outdated educational ...
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Twitter Universal Dependency Parsing for African American and Mainstream American English
... For each model in each of the cross-domain set- tings, we calculated the LAS on the 250 tweets drawn from highly African-American tweets and the 250 from highly White tweets (see §3 for de- tails); we will ...
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African American males . . . educate or suspend?
... many African American males that attend high schools throughout the United States are the victims of unfair suspension practices at the hands of teachers and school-based ...of African ...
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Victims, Victors, or Bystanders? African American College Students\u27 Perceptions of African American Agency During the Civil War
... Multicultural education continues to be the norm in most history classrooms in America today (Banks, 1989, 1995; Newby et al., 1996; Willis, 1996). Often, state boards consult multicultural theoretical frameworks when ...
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Annotated Bibliography of African American Carillon Music
... notable African American recordings include those by Louis Armstrong, Grant Green, Richie Havens (at the 1969 Woodstock festival), Claude Jeter, Dar- lene Love, Wynton Marsalis, Lou Rawls, Paul Robeson, Ike ...
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Phonological and phonetic characteristics of African American English
... European American varieties ...European American varieties but is characterized by a resetting of pitch at its ...European American females showed a greater range of pitch than European ...
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Exploring the Sexuality of African American Older Women
... older African American women have a greater shortage of men than all other ethnic/racial groups, largely due to higher mortality rates for African American men than African ...
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Annotated Bibliography of African American Carillon Music
... how African American women are disproportionately affected by gun violence, yet their stories are rarely ...these African American women are encoded in the soprano voice at the beginning and ...
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