dependent and built on one society but is inapplicable to another. Finally, the idea of "individualism" within the United States has become so profound that those who are wealthy within

biotic community existing upon it may be conveniently viewed as an ecosystem" (McGee et al, 2004, p. 317). By comparison, Blochs interpretation of the importance of ritual is the manner

has ruling power in India for a long while, but today little British influence can be seen there. Colonialism does affect anthropology, but it does not affect all dominated

status for African Americans in relation to the dominant nature of Caucasian European-descended Americans. Theoretical framework Sociological theoretical perspectives relative to minority relationships to dominant groups encompasses a

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,"

"It is against this double hegemony of a History with a capital H and a Literature consecrated by the absolute power of the written sign that the peoples who

black women were treated as opposed to the white women. She writes: "Such were the unusually fortunate circumstances of my early childhood. When I was six years old, my mother

fall into the camp of individualistic thinkers: they believe that the sources of poverty can be traced to characteristics of the poor themselves, whether that be "lack of a

in African American populations, while whites have noted a decline in hypertension in the last five years. In addressing the problem of hypertension, then, it is necessary to consider

us that we were inferior at the same time they told themselves that they were superior. These statements, repeated often enough, come to be believed by those involved, and it

compare it to what it took for a white individual to become a general. That could be also a topic of research that could be applied to todays military in

and the legalized discrimination of the first half of the twentieth century, they are both "directly and indirectly affected by a resulting cultural memory that prizes connection and social connectedness"

with the differences and similarities are going to be far different than those of this particular writer and as such this writer cannot describe their experiences in any realistic fashion.

indicated that students behaved differently when in an all White campus environment than when in an all Black campus environment" (Collins, Steward and Neil, p. 80). Collins and the others

both grand and far-reaching; that he has received tremendous support from other outspoken prominent African-Americans speaks to the reasonable assertion that Africa should - and can - be safeguarded for