Setting in "The Bluest Eye" Time 1940-41 The novel is divided into the four seasons Place Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's home town) It is more preciously set around Broadway, Twenty-First and Thirty-Fifth Streets. At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... The Breedlove appartment used to be a storefront the furniture was dilapidated no love and comfort (no good memories) cold (like the cold atmosphere) a brutal family life The MacTeer...

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It makes us more sensitive to the world, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds." ... To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb Alabama in the 1930s. ... This novel opens up people's eyes to what small towns were like in the 1930s. ... It shows how things are in different places. ...

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Before this play was released the roles from black people on stage were mostly small and often times not serious roles. ... At first Walter was against moving out of their small and overcrowded apartment. ... Walter does not tell any of his family members and contemplates to himself whether to accept the money and stay in the small apartment in the "ghetto" or to start a new life in the white neighborhood. It is a difficult decision for Walter to make but he ultimately decides that he and his family must leave the poor, run downed area and begin fresh in a new place. ...

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Afro-American students began to realize how to harness the small power they had. ... Though a small inconvenience, it makes a big impact when the reasons behind it are so outrageous. ... One of the most common places to find a drinking fountain is in a school, whether it be a grammar school or a high school. ... If it were not for him many of the marches and demonstrations which won them their rights may have never taken place. ...

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Some families settled near-south in areas like Southern Illinois while other families continued to places like Chicago and Detroit. ... The prison list in this small town can be quadrupled, but the mislabeled "War on Drugs" has been the main culprit in the disproportionate increase of African American males' encounters with the justices system. ... In small towns, authorities have a limited number of crimes to address. As a result, small amounts of drugs, coupled with lack of money and lack of education, often lead to ominous encounters with the justice system. ...

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I took my camera, packed it into a small bag which I had. ... Due to my curiosity of discovering new places, I had begged him to take me with him. ... After spending the night socializing with the black Indians I begun to feel guilty about the way of life the people from my home place live. I imagined if I was in my home place and strangers visit us to inquire about our history, nobody will give them a warm welcoming and hospitality like the way the black Indian treated us. ...

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Although she is satisfied with her appearance, she still wishes that she were smaller: "I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked pancake" (Walker 90). ... Dee believes they should preserve family heirlooms, the quilts, by placing them on display. ...

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To many, the small efforts they were making may seem minimal but in Anna Cooper's mind they were just the begin of how the world was going to open up to women. ... They were once thought of as just housewives, Kitchen workers, nursery worker, caregivers of prisoners, and the women had a place. ... They wanted nor of what has been offered in life they stated to feel the unreachable is now attainable are not the one's place on men of society but the limits they place on themselves. ...

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Emma Lou is carrying the prejudices instilled in her in the small town of Boise, Idaho where she was surrounded by fair skinned people and the faith of the blue veins in the idea of "Whiter and whiter with EVERY generation" (11). ... Harlem is represented as a place where black people of all color are supposed to be able to find freedom through segregation from the predominately white world, but even in these circumstances, Emma Lou cannot recognize the composite nationality of her people. ... Thurman is showing a common view of 1920's society in a small segregated town and giving the r...

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Woodward was born in 1908 in a small town in Arkansas named Vanndale. ... One of the books main focus is showing how the Jim Crow laws and segregation was a result of social and political events which took place in earlier years, and that is was not a natural result from southern traditions or mores. ... Everything was now in place for the Jim Crow Laws and segregation to take lift. ...

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In the middle of the changing atmosphere, a small group of black men and women began a public relations campaign to promote what they called the "New Negro" movement. ... Harlem was a magical, transforming place then, and that was especially true for the forsaken civilians who went to New York in search of a greater opportunity. ...

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Many public places like schools and restaurants were segregated. ... Incident - Countee Cullen Once riding in Old Baltimore Heart-filled, head filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me Now I was eight and very small And he was no whit bigger And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue and called me, "Nigger." ...

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It was a place where black actors, both men and women, could work, learn, and perfect their skills. ... New York was very excited to be the founding place of this big up and coming thing. ... No other place had a bigger spotlight on black entertainment. The Harlem Cotton Club is where most of the performances took place. ... Since then, Freedom has grown from a small community theatre to an award winning, nationally recognized regional theater. ...

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One of the most troublesome areas of racism is in places of education. ... A small percentage of them taught themselves to read and write and they began to teach others. ... Even though education was instituted for African Americans, which was a step in the right direction, it was a very small step and still didn't give blacks the education they deserved. ... This is just one example of the racial prejudice in colleges, even in a small college of 9,000 students. ...

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All slaves were free and had to go find a new place to live and a new place to work. ... To blacks living within post- Reconstruction South, Washington offered industrial education as the means of escape from sharecropping and allowed blacks to become self-employed, while owning their own land, or small business. ... They settled in a very small house with many other black and very poor white neighbors. ...

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As one of the few attorneys in the small, rural hometown, Finch is called upon by the county court to defend Tom Robinson, a black laborer. ... But because this story takes place in the south where many people are racist he was accused of the crime. ... Prejudice is a strong word; it is as black as the night, as black as the soul of a small town called Maycomb. ...

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Racial Attitudes and Social Mores in the South from 1900-1950 The South in the early 1900's was a place of civil unrest. ... With Jim Crow laws, the segregation of public places became a widespread practice. One of the first places that this was apparent on was the railways. ... (Class discussion) There was a small majority of whites however, that did not follow the predominating views of the south during this time period. ...

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This movie takes place in the 1980's in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York, a mainly African American community. ... The police show up after Smiley sets the place on fire and choke Radio Raheem to death which makes an even bigger mess. ... It's kind of an awkward situation because of all that happened the day before, but they try to make small talk. ... In my opinion, he places them side by side to compare the two quotes with how similar, but also very different they are. ...

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How placing a black Bart Simpson on a t-shirt, was more than supporting the show, it was taking a whole culture and letting them relate to it. ... This show takes an affluent family, the mother being a lawyer, and the father a doctor and places them in an upscale neighborhood of a city environment. During the time the show was running, this was not considered the norm, but perhaps just a small population that black culture as a whole was not aware of. But what the show was trying to do was take the idea of a stable nuclear family and attempt to place black characters in it, with an intended au...

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Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. These primary determinants affect everyone, everyday of their lives. I realized this when my family moved from southern Californi...

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Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Natchez, Mississippi on a small farm much in the same manner that his hero, Bigger Thomas, began his life. ... Bigger Thomas, the hero and the protagonist of the novel, experiences escape which takes place within an urban maze that has come to be called black ghetto. ...

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Sylvia Landry, a light skinned black woman living in the North, returns to the South and dedicates herself to teaching at a school for the children of black sharecroppers. Despite the efforts of Sylvia and the founder of the school, Reverend Wilson Jacobs, the school is overcrowded and in need of mo...

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Some of today's conflicts have taken place among discrimination of nationality. ... The lawsuit alleges that despite the fact that women comprise over seventy two percent of the hourly sales, and only a very small percentage of women hold supervisory and managerial positions. ...

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And last, but not least, he showed us a sense of hope, because no matter what, even in the darkest times, he would still keep at least a small bit of hope in him. ... He puts the reader in a mood of disgust, not against the book, but against the people in the book and the racism that takes place in the book. ...

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Locke believed that the Old Negro, " had long become more of a myth than a man,"" and, " for generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being "a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be "kept down-, or "in his place-, or helped up, to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden-, and that is exactly the image that the New Negro was going to alter. (87) The New Negro was, " moving forward under the control largely of his own objectives."" ... He foretold how, "Harlem, as we shal...

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