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The Unfair Self-Esteem Trap Faced by Minority Students

By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton — 2012

African Americans internalize, or come to believe, the negative stereotypes directed against them, and thus suffer from low self-esteem. Twenge and Crocker (2002), however, in a large meta-analysis, have shown that African Americans, on the whole, have significantly higher self-esteem relative to White Americans.

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Black Wall Street Today: The Community Was Not Destroyed

White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

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Rev. Howard Thurman: ‘The Preacher’s Preacher’

Many argue the Black American struggle for freedom and justice in the 20th century was facilitated mainly via two paths: faith (the church) and the law (the courtroom).

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