... be utilized in classroom and therapeutic settings involving urban youth. Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. But long before then African traditions established the use of spoken word ... ...

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

... appropriate goal is to know one's place in this society, and that place is not equal--"you've got to know your place at all times." The narrator represents the classic growing young man, unlearned in the ways of the world. Although he thinks of himself as educated, the narrator has simply accepted and internalized the ideas and values taught to ... ...

• Word Count: 769
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Bird Sings," has been deemed one of the most controversial, yet influential autobiographical novels of all time. Although somewhat unappreciated by the general public, this work is held to be a classic work of literature despite its taboo themes and figurative language for its time period. The novel will leave a long lasting impression of Angelou that will evermore be embedded into the ... ...

• Word Count: 673
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... against the demolition of the existing structures." This resembles Scott's argument that restructuring is the "state's attempt to make a society legible, to arrange the population in ways that simplified the classic state functions of taxation, conscription, and prevention of rebellion." By restructuring and enlarging the bureaucracy, the Apartheid regime was able to impose the everyday administration of segregation with out demolition ... ...

• Word Count: 2509
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the Apes was written in the year 1912 as a series in a magazine. The reviews were nowhere near as grand as the book's two years later which labeled it an instant classic. The novel's main themes touch on man's survival and protection of the things that are closest to him as well as the identity of race and gender as symbols of ... ...

• Word Count: 1118
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of Aunt Jemima, perhaps best portrayed the symbolism of the Black Arts Movement. This intellectual work is a creation of multiple images layered one on top of the other in the classic Aunt Jemima box. The background of the box is covered by several smiling Aunt Jemima's "much like a mirror that has been chopped up into several pieces with each square ... ...

• Word Count: 4325
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of their independence. This was their rite to move on to the next level of their life. Maya Angelou's novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is no stranger to a classic novel expressing such a consciousness within the Black community. The exceptional novel illustrates the sheer duality of growing up Black in the American South in the 1930s and 40s. We note ... ...

• Word Count: 952
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... facilities. Police brutality used against the marchers dramatized the harsh treatment of blacks in the United States. King was arrested, but his voice was not silenced as he issued his classic "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" to refute his critics. His speaking prowess inspired African American citizens to rise up and help achieve King's "dream" for America. Death came for King on ... ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Othello, previously blinded by an innate jealousy kindled by his colleague Iago, comes to the correct conclusion after it is too late to make a change. The play is a particularly timeless classic as not only Othello but also his wife Desdemona and her lady in waiting Emelia, who all contradicted the dominant Jacobean attitude system and stereotype so strongly at the start ... ...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate