Heavily drug and sex influenced rock, was hard and heavy to the culture. ... The Alternative Movement in the 90's, Blink-182 and Green Day, broke, giving a genre not as strong as grunge or rock, but not pop. ... And together this combination of anti war and pro-black made an entire peaceful movement and its relationship with the music of the time changed the music and the culture. ... The alternative movements claim to fame is creating music that, while its punk or rock, it has pop roots. ... In conclusion the music of the 60's and 90's changed their culture and now there is sti...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Pop's, who is my grandfather, came from Jacksonville, Florida. Pop's would narrate many historical events that took place in Harlem, which brought us to the turning points of Harlem. ... Certainly Harlem was a culture center for Blacks, but it was also during this period in the 1920's that Harlem emerged as a slum. ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Where once their existence was hardly acknowledged, black Americans have stormed the scene of pop culture. ... Their art isn't just about having a voice; it's also about celebrating their mere blackness, their culture, simply their way of life. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

As a child Baraka deeply affected by his pop culture heroes he created his very own comic strips and science fiction tales. ... After the death of Malcolm X he argued in the "Legacy of Malcolm X, and the coming of the Black Nation," that black people are a race , a culture, a Nation.... He felt that the Black artist must express his American experience in forms that spring from his own unique culture and that his art must be evaluated by standards that grow out of his own culture. ...

• Word Count: 2297
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• Grade Level: High School

Walker and Marshall write about an identity they have found with these women because of their exposure to the African culture. ... Walker's and Marshall's identification is related to the African-American culture that they have been exposed to throughout their lives. ... Walker identifies with this potential and she expresses their creativity and culture through her own writing. ... In fact, Walker may have been referring to women who were living during the time when Hurston was writing: "Most writers of her time wanted to reject the South because of its racism; few wanted to celebra...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the late twentieth century, South Africa was a country devoid of many of the freedoms that we in the United States take for granted. In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights of more than half of the country's population. It ordered a strict and conformist code of separation on its black citizens. The black community in South Africa could no longer live, work, or enjoy innumerable parts of South Africa. ...

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