Reading African American literature ranging from spirituals and slave narratives, to works written during and after the Civil Rights Movement provides readers and scholars with a rare insight into the minds and lives of African Americans at that time. ... This not only is true to African Americans but is true to all post-colonial indigenous people whose lives were negatively impacted by contact with Europeans. Like African Americans, these natives search for identity and live with double-consciousness throughout their lives. ... African Americans continued losing their ways of life as soon as...

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black men are affected by the issue of racial discrimination and stereotyping throughout every aspect of life. ... It seems they no longer value their life or the lives of others because no one seems to value it. ... A life of crime then leads to prison or in many cases leads to death. ... Because these do not have a source of income, many of them turn to a life of crime in order to survive. The crimes these men commit not only affect them and their victims but people from all walks of life. ...

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Walker and Marshall celebrate these women's lives and they see them as inspirations to become black women writers. ... Walker's and Marshall's identification is related to the African-American culture that they have been exposed to throughout their lives. ... Every week, regardless of her busy life, she makes time to escape to a spiritual place. For Delia, being at church gets rid of all the misfortunes of her life and she finds some inner peace. ... Hurston, as a writer during her life, can be seen as being ahead of her time because she touches on issues that are sensitiv...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

X and King by the end of their lives were fighting to achieve the same goals but in different routes with same objectives. ... However, he went through several phases in his life, one key phase was after his break with the black Muslims after visiting Mecca. ... Like Malcolm, King went through several periods in his life where he changed his thinking and approach. ... The media portrayed Malcolm X in a negative and incorrect manner because they only addressed one aspect of his life, his contempt for white people, when he is multifaceted. ... In Martin Luther King's and Malcolm X'...

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Rather, it deals with individuals who must deal with the horrors of being slaves, and their responses to their lives. ... Baby Suggs enabled this community by preaching her wonderful words of hope and redemption: "She did not tell them to clean up their lives or to go out and sin no more. ... When the men from the Georgia plantation come north to collect Sethe and her children and bring them back into slavery, Sethe does the only thing she knows to save her children from that horrible life. ... She collected all the little bits of life she had made and carried, pushed and dragged them o...

• Word Count: 3715
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Rather, it deals with individuals who must deal with the horrors of being slaves, and their responses to their lives. ... Baby Suggs enabled this community by preaching her wonderful words of hope and redemption: "She did not tell them to clean up their lives or to go out and sin no more. ... When the men from the Georgia plantation come north to collect Sethe and her children and bring them back into slavery, Sethe does the only thing she knows to save her children from that horrible life. ... She collected all the little bits of life she had made and carried, pushed and dragged them o...

• Word Count: 3712
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Celia's life will reveal the relationship of race, gender, and power in the south. ... In an effort to stop Newsom's sexual advances, secure the lives of her children, and preserve George's affections, she appealed to the family members. ... Like Celia's life, her situation was not any different or uncommon from female-slave daily lives. ... Recent historical documents demonstrate that female slaves were raped or at least threatened by rape once in their lives. ... Having warn him, she only does what secures her life best. ...

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Although slavery is a huge part of this woman's life, it is not what defines her, nor does it empower her. ... He describes America as being a violent and cruel woman who continually takes his life away. ... It is not unusual for McKay to compare life as sexual objects. ... He has endured through all the hardships in his life. ... She does not use her life experiences as a reason to become stronger and appreciate sexual beauty. ...

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• Has Bibliography

The protagonist Celie is diminished and isolated by the men in her lives, first by her father and later by her husband, Mr.________. ... Womanist theology challenges all repressive forces that impede the struggle of black women to survive and to develop a positive, productive life for the freedom and welfare of the family and women. ... Alice Walker's The Color Purple touches on the triple problem of racism, sexism (sexism by black patriarchal men) and classism through the life of the protagonist Celie. ... The Color Purple emphasises on the oppression faced by black women by the men in ...

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Her maternal grandfather lived with her most of her life and acted as a surrogate father. ... Janice has no brother and sisters and the majority of her extended family lives in Michigan. ... Janice lives in a predominantly black neighborhood in South Central, California. ... These values were instilled by her mother and grandfather's teachings and life experiences. ... I will evaluate pieces of Janice's life and identify her development process in relation to Erikson's stages of psycho-social development. ...

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It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome sme...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

He is terrified of himself and every situation that he encounters in the book and the book shows what may happen when one lives by compulsively acting on fear. ... However, one cannot be objective about the era in which one lives, and because of this, I think that Theodore Solotaroff is unable to realize much of the importance of this book. ... Rubin describes the work as a rebellion novel, in that one man decides to gamble his life in order to reject his very role in society. ... His only desire in life is to be able to make his own decisions, and be free to accept the consequences of hi...

• Word Count: 2755
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. Langston Hughes boldly states that "African Americans' lives became significantly better because their lives were changed socially and politically, giving them more opportunities.... Fiehn, on the other hand, correctly states that "the principle of black protest had been established, although it took many years for laws to be changed;" he...

• Word Count: 3529
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A rural way of life that supported an agrian economy based on slave labor was quickly established in the South. ... The Northerners welcomed modernization and the constant changes it brought to their way of life. ... They enjoyed a prosperous agricultural economy based on slave labor and wished to keep their old way of life. ... over all departments of Government and now, as our reward, this slave-holding power comes with sword, gun, and cannon to take the life of the nation and overthrow the great American Government (Long 26). ... From the very beginning of the war, it was obvious that ma...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

In this time period it would be going against the grain for what we know in the present era as the right moral thing to do in which we treat everyone as equal, and in life or do you stick with the majority of people to still be a race focused voter. ... He is a man who has an outdated look on life and black people, especially when Tanner tells the black man he thinks that he's a preacher from South Alabama. ... According to 40 Lives of Freedom, "But the changes in the South, in the context of major political changes internationally, had given rise to a civil rights movement. Black pe...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In one way the ending of Biko's life was a tragedy, but his life, due to the publication of Woods' book, became an inspirational rallying point for black people in South Africa and throughout the African continent. ... In 1948, the Afrikaner Nationalist Party, in its first year of government, drew up apartheid laws to cover every aspect of peoples' lives with the particular purpose of isolating different racial groups (black, Asian, mixed blood, and white). ... We did not see the diurnal effects of apartheid on the lives of ordinary people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. ... I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ... Well's "to sell my life as dearly as possible" philosophy and sacrifice their lives for a cause. ... Robert Church lost his saloon and nearly lost his life. ... The theme of the chapter revolves around the unfair social norms of the time that plagued the lives of African-American slaves. ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. ... In a letter to Frank Waldo he wrote 'my own life has been divided between two racial groups for the most part, ever since, I have lived between two worlds'9. ... Fear is the emotion that runs his life, this is because of his natal-separation from the south 'the earth my mother'15 as well as the black people around him. ...

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Affirmative action is defined as the equal opportunities given to women, minorities, and small groups so they will have the same tools, education, and allotment to achieve their goals in life. ... In the constitution everyone is equal and is to be given the proper chances in life. ... Also, the people who had nothing in life now feel a worth and are able to give more to the ones they love. ... If you cannot have a goal in life to achieve why live, affirmative action allows you to have a chance not an actual job. ... People are viewed differently in life because of skin color. ...

• Word Count: 4281
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• Grade Level: High School

These types of conditions also open opportunities to a wide variety of health problems for tenets, resulting in even further complications for finding employment and life in general. ... This paradox has hindered the lives of many people and they are often denied a taste of middle-class life. ... According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... If Little Billy goes to a private Catholic s...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The Colour Purple Chapter 1 The first few pages begin Walker's narrative of the life of Celie, a fourteen-year-old black girl who lives with her dying mother and her sister, Nettie. ... Eventually Harpo realizes that Sofia is not like Celia and the other submissive women in his life. ... She admits, "For the first time in my life, I feel just right."" ... It seems that she has gotten on with her life, but wishes to return to say hi to those she loves. ... No longer is she the submissive wife who obediently takes a beating at the hands of powerful men in her life. ...

• Word Count: 4341
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

To invent something new or just the feeling of being part of something special makes the lives of people like Aaron Douglas or Langston Hughes so interesting and creative. ... Most writers spent at least some time in Harlem, others like Langston Hughes or Claude McKay, described the New York ghetto life in their short stories; it simply provided a various number of setting for their stories. Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ... They tell us real life stories of t...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many feel the system is administered almost exclusively by whites and designed to protect the white lives and property but provide minimal protection to the life and safety of minorities like Rodney King. ... The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"He was sick of life at home. ... This shows the struggle that Bigger cannot seem to overcome, the fact that he wants a better life for himself but it becomes impossible due to the power the white people had over the black people during his life. ... The reader gets to look into the life of a black person who is truly overwhelmed by white people and the power they have; he wants power in his life over white people but he is too frightened of the power that the white people have over him. ... This piece brings out a feeling of sadness in the reader as McKay illustrates how unfair life rea...

• Word Count: 2640
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Before the Harlem Renaissance, the majority of Blacks lived in the South and were constrained by Jim Crow laws (segregation laws that separated Blacks and Whites), which disenfranchised African American citizens and separated them from Whites in virtually every aspect of public life. ... On the one hand, the very positive notion of a Black vision of American life that drew upon the cultural wealth of Black folklore and interpreted the African past along with the realities of Black American history and the day-to-day experience of Black life, did in fact engender images and stylistic approache...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate