The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. ... In the begin of the twentieth century only few Blacks had managed to enter the middle-class. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... In the South, mostly African-Americans of the middle-class took an active part in the struggle for integration in the American society. With the help of the Christian church they managed to ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel can be looked upon as a strong censure of the bigotry and sexism that defrauded African- American women in the American South. ... Introduction "A male dominated society of the early twentieth century in America defined gender roles which each individual would subscribe to. ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. ... Womanism is the counter-revolution, the realisation, that 'feminism' does not recognise the perspectives of the Black women. ... Set in the backdr...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many black Americans believed that through the installation of America's first black President, Barack Obama, a change was really going to come. ... Some could argue that America shows some similarities to a racial caste system. ... According to The New Jim Crow, the racial caste system began before America was even a nation. ... When the American Revolution ended, the Constitution was drafted. ... After slavery, the Jim Crow Laws were next in creating a caste system in America. ...

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