... existing of African Americans (Hillstrom, 1999: 581). Saar's work in the field of assemblage grants her much attention as well as her almost politically driven controvertial work such as the piece entitled The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972). It depicts a doll made to look like a "typical" or stereotypical American black woman, but strangely carrying a broom in one hand and ... , feelings, and behavior that is due to ethnic group membership. Naturally, the ethnic group tends to be one in which the individual claims heritage (Phinney, 1987:10), Ethnic identity is separate from one's pers...

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... colonization because of the hopelessness they saw in their situation in America. Many black leaders (such as pastors) and even some white leaders (such as Abraham Lincoln) began to favor a separate black nation during this tem. After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, not much militant Black Nationalist activity stirred as a result of terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan and lack of ... political interest. However, in response to the horrid conditions of "separate but equal" (Jim Crow Laws), in 1878 blacks organized the Liberian Exodus Joint Stock Steamship Company which took repatriates ...

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