Toomer was a middle-classed and educated mixed-race man, making it highly probable that he would have been called this slur as well, as he did not want to be 'confined' by his race as a Negro man. ... As just like sugar cane stalks, which grow in the south, black Americans derive their nourishment from the soil. ... Before transatlantic slavery, Caribs the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean islands had their own slaves, who were forced into slavery mainly due to what we would now consider to be classism. ... The main economic force driving the transatlantic slave trade was t...

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O'Connor lived in a time period when, "Racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans to keep African Americans in a subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites. ...

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Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

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This identity contrasts with a sense of belonging linked with citizenship within a political state, or present orientated affiliations to specific groups demanding professional, occupational, or class loyalties (De Vos, 1995: 34). ... The second part of the construct, identity, has Latin origins and is derived from the word identitas; the word is formed from idem meaning same according to Clark (1947: 187). ...

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After the foreign policy defeat of Ronald Reagan in relation to the passing of the 1986 Anti-Apartheid Act, the setback in administration policy which was derived from growing electoral strength of African Americans was rising Republican concern over the issue of race in US foreign policy. ...

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