Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual"
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A 5 page paper which examines the arguments presented by Cruse in his book "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual." The paper contends that Cruse's arguments are incredibly valid. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAcruse.wps

History of the Zoot Suit
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A 5 page paper which examines the history of the Zoot Suit, its significance and its continued influence on African-American popular culture. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TGzoot.rtf

How Frederick Douglass Would Define Human Nature
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A 5 page paper which considers how Frederick Douglass would define human nature (something he failed to do in "My Bondage and My Freedom"), compare this definition with those offered by Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Black Codes, to determine why these authors make their respective claims about human nature and analyze what larger arguments are being made about the issue. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TGhunat.wps

Invisible Cultures
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Existence, like culture, is constructed from the experiences of the individual and is shaped by the physical, social, and political contexts of life as experienced by the group. This 5 page paper argues that Ralph Ellison in The Invisible Man, W. E. B. Du Bois in Spiritual Strivings, Leslie Marmon Silko in Ceremony and Amiri Baraka in Blues People each see the theme of invisibility from a cultural conflict based on subjugation, assimilation, appropriation, extermination and, or, dispossession. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTblkinv.wps

Is Repatriation A Viable Alternative For African-Americans?
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7 pages in length. The writer discusses that while America may still house the greatest variety of peoples, there has been a renewed focus toward repatriation within the African-American community. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCrepat.wps

J.Anthony Lukas: Common Ground, A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. (1985)
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(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. Anthony Lukas focuses on include only a handful of the hundreds of people in a multilayered account of the moral fabric of a city and the vastly different social universes of its neighborhoods. Eventually the turmoil surrounding the desegregation efforts is seen in the context of history, not just national history, or that of Boston, but the history of the little villages cities are made up of, and in many cases even the histories of individuals.
Filename: BBlukas.doc.

Jamaica and the Music - mon!
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(6 pp.) According to an internet site labeled "fantasy tours," Jamaica is "eternal summer." So it only makes sense that it would have "hot music." But we also learn, "the island" "has rugged mountain ranges, with Blue Mountain Peak, the highest point, soaring 7,402 feet. It has miles of white beaches, bordered by the blue Caribbean. It has 120 rivers flowing from the mountains to the coast. And it has great central plains, fertile agricultural lands, towering cliffs, magnificent waterfalls, and dense tropical forests." What that tells us is our "hot music," still has a lot of varied cultural influences. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BBjahmus.doc

John Singleton’s “Higher Learning” (1995)
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This 5 page report discusses the 1995 movie, “Higher Learning,” director John Singleton’s third movie, that offers a look into the lives and minds of a group of young people from different countries, races, and social background. They find themselves in integrated circumstances as all enroll in Columbus University. Students who are already dealing with the expectations of high performance in the classroom, on the track, or in front of their friends, are strained to the breaking point by each other’s prejudice, inexperience, and misunderstanding, as well as their own “coming of age” issues and stressors. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: BWhigher.wps

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