... to go public to white and black audiences. "Silences are being broken, lost things have been found" says Toni Morrison about the African American literature that was beginning to come out (Morrison, 254). Before the slave trade and while in the new world blacks always had culture even if they didn't ... literature is the key into sociology. First, African American literature is "based on its culture, its history, and the artistic strategies (Morrison, 251)." That is why Harlem Renaissance literature is one of the key aspect in bringing alive the African American culture. Second, was ... ...

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... Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (Biography.com; Zora Neale Hurston). These specific pieces of work became a great influence on well-known writers such as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara. Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. The ... ...

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... , 2004). Hip-hop figures are a source of hope and inspiration to those that have been marginalized and ignored in society. Hip-hop has always been committed to the others as Toni Morrison declares, " what unifies hip-hop throughout the world is its emergence from the others within the empire, who ring profound changes in the nations discourse ... (Morrison, 1996). Many rappers consider themselves as educators and see at least a portion of their mission is to promote consciousness (Morrell and Andrade, 2002). Often Rappers take on the role of ... ...

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