"In the late 1970's and early 1980's hip hop became the expression of a new generation squeezed between the fading promises of civil rights era policies and inner city blight spawned by black middle class abandon." ... Many of the generation grew up in working and middle class realities framed by affirmative action corporate opportunity, suburban flight, school desegregation, and other post civil rights era policies and trends. ... The majority of the listeners of hip-hop music derive from working class in the social order. For the lower class case studies show that the mentality of ...

• Word Count: 1557
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Derived from the Spanish language, the word 'octoroon' is defined as one who is 1/8th black. ... She is a woman who has all the social graces that come along with being a middle-class or upper-class white woman and yet Zoe is nonetheless subjected to slavery.  ...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is derived from black American oral culture 4. It is derived from black American musical traditions. ... In the aftermath of an untelevised revolution, hip-hop continues in the tradition of its ancestry and pervasively force-feeds America the ugly truth about racism and class disparities experienced exclusively by African-Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Young children could see pretty black woman and men dressed proper and portrayed in high-class society roles rather than in rags and impoverish. ... Sambo is a stereotype that was derived from slavery. ...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toomer was a middle-classed and educated mixed-race man, making it highly probable that he would have been called this slur as well, as he did not want to be 'confined' by his race as a Negro man. ... As just like sugar cane stalks, which grow in the south, black Americans derive their nourishment from the soil. ... Before transatlantic slavery, Caribs the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean islands had their own slaves, who were forced into slavery mainly due to what we would now consider to be classism. ... The main economic force driving the transatlantic slave trade was t...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

She is constantly reminded that her father deserves no respect because of the deep black color of his skin, and Emma Lou's stepfather's "only satisfaction in life was the pleasure he derived from insulting and ignoring the real blacks" (16). As founder and leader of the blue veins, her grandmother teaches Emma Lou that she was not a part of the superior class, and her mother sees Emma Lou's birth as a tragic mistake she would never escape. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

O'Connor lived in a time period when, "Racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans to keep African Americans in a subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites. ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In their minds, the North served as their Canaan and is recognizable in certain spirituals, "a distinctive musical genre derived from the fusion of the Anglo-American style of hymnody with the distinctive rhythms and concerns of the slave community".12 Slaves saw that the story of Exodus contradicted the White-American notion that blacks were meant to be kept in enslavement and seemed to prove that the fundamental ideas that slavery was built upon were against the will of God and would come to an end.13 Some scholars believed that much of the African heritage that slaves had prior to thei...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her first name was derived from the ship that carried her to America, The Phillis. ... They had a confrontation in 1935, and in 1936, she was fired-- ostensibly for missing classes and mistreating lab equipment. ...

• Word Count: 2366
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This identity contrasts with a sense of belonging linked with citizenship within a political state, or present orientated affiliations to specific groups demanding professional, occupational, or class loyalties (De Vos, 1995: 34). ... The second part of the construct, identity, has Latin origins and is derived from the word identitas; the word is formed from idem meaning same according to Clark (1947: 187). ...

• Word Count: 3101
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the foreign policy defeat of Ronald Reagan in relation to the passing of the 1986 Anti-Apartheid Act, the setback in administration policy which was derived from growing electoral strength of African Americans was rising Republican concern over the issue of race in US foreign policy. ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate