All of us, who might have probed space, cured cancer, or built industries, were, instead, black victims of the White's social system (Malcolm 1). ... In relation to curing cancer, building industries and probing space, Malcolm refers to the vision of the American society. ... Yes, that raping, red-headed devil was my grandfather! ... My mother's father! ... If I could drain away his blood that pollutes my body, and pollutes my complexion, I'd do it! ...

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• Approx Pages: 15
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"Power is expressed in the monopolization of space and the relegation of weaker groups in society to less desirable environments" (ix). ... Claude McKay illustrates the struggle of black people in a very racist environment in his poem "Enslaved," "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, for weary centuries despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West; and in the Black Land disinherited, robbed in the ancient country of its birth, my heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead, for this my race that has ...

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

Hence, Walker has discovered that they find their freedom and independence here: And yet, it is to my mother - and all of our mothers who were not famous - that I went in search of the Secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated but vibrant, creative spirit that the black woman has inherited, and that pops out in wild and and unlikely places to this day (Walker, 1996: 2319). ...

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

Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." Marlow and his shipmates, including the narrator whose descriptions of the scene fill the few breaks in Marlow's stories, loll on the deck waiting for the tides of the Thames River to change. To entertain his compatriots, Marlow begins to tal...

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