Northeast or Midwest. Even by 1900, approximately 90 percent of all African- Americans still resided in the South. However, migration from the South has long been a significant feature of

"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

has always been hard, soft and heavy metal, but today, there is pop, hardcore, indie, alternative, punk, metal, and so on. Further, the rock of the sixties was more folksy

of several notable Southern black writers emerged. Among this emergence was the work of Langston Hughes. Trussell (2003) writes that Hughes poetry rang out in the literary world:

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

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

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.

Trobrianders. "Argonauts" is considered the founding document of economic anthropology. Emphasizing the primitive exchange system of the indigenous peoples of the

into much of the work he produced prior to 1930, however, as he so eloquently put it, in spite of himself. It was during this early era of his writing,

understand these networks (Gray and Nybell, 1990). Within these networks, various people may share the responsibility of child care of "nieces, nephews, or grandchildren" (Gray and Nybell, 1990, p. 513).

by a group called Hubbynet (2004). The author discusses how interracial marriages are looked down upon by society and how this can cause problems for the cultural identity of the

center in every persons mind to illustrate how barbaric the human race can be to its own and to hopefully learn from such historic faux pas so they never happen

as retinopathy, kidney failure, and even amputations are more likely among this component of our population (Skelly, Leeman, Carlson, et. Al., 2008). Diabetes is ranked as the fourth leading

African Americans as compared to their white, Anglo-European counterparts in the United States. Research Questions The following research questions will be addressed in this study: 1.

doing so through an incorporation of ebonics, a communication style that originated in fact with African Americans. Advertising, by all credits, is a