of power within these respective societies is both grand and far-reaching; that cultural communities with an unnatural presence of coercion and tyranny serve as the most powerful over common citizens

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was developed by Benjamin Lee Whorf (a linguist and anthropologist) and Edward Sapir. The theory argues that language is a finite array of lexical and grammatical categories

African American family just as they can be applied to views of families of other ethnicity. In his 1965 report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,"

meaning is, We need a law against that" (Novak). As Jinks (1997) explains, the mere existence of "a law against that" (Novak) more often than not is not enough.

Yet, this position does bring into question issues related to methodology. Methodology in anthropology varies. Many of the scientists live amongst the people they are studying. In some way, this

a pattern of self-esteem and self-perception that will be carried on into adult years. Indeed, college years are considered some of the most crucial periods of socialization because of

places on the face of the earth in which social justice is in short supply and anthropological study occurs. Several of the authors listed appear to focus on Africa,

and my delight in human beings" (Walker PG). Powerful women are a rare breed. Such rarity is clearly depicted in two particularly

Africa was immense when compared to the numbers of the European-descended populace who established political and social dominance, the white elite established discriminatory policies from their earliest presence in the

of preconceived ideas as to how these people somehow innately fall at a lower echelon on the totem pole than our so-called more advanced society. There is an underlying

for the Advancement of Colored People. By his own admission, DuBois opposed the "accommodation" to Jim Crow separatism advocated by Booker T. Washington, opening a new discourse in which establishing

against their will, enslaved them, and then considered them inferior because they were slaves. This exquisitely twisted piece of self-serving reasoning enabled whites to justify continuing the practice.

fight is not over. In order to fully understand the issue it is probably a good idea to first define the terms. What is meant by achievement or success? What

the study of sociology as an organized discipline. For this reason, one can understand much about the state of modern anthropology by studying the contributions and theories propagated by prominent

often caught between the worlds in ways that African men never experience. While they may live in a new reality, the old attitudes and beliefs about a womans place