Hughes piece, "I Too," is a perfect example of identity as a theme. ... This poem tells the story of an African slave who is told to eat separately from a white family when company is over. ... Hughes wrote this piece while he was stuck in Genoa, Italy after he had lost his wallet and passport. ... Anne relays a statement given by a fellow poet of Hughes from his piece, "The Negro Artist and Racial Mountain.... This piece of information about his early life goes to show where his fighting spirit came from. ...

• Word Count: 1169
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Horrible things went on at a Slave Auction causing children and married couples to separated and or pulled apart. ... I could not imagine how disturbing it could have been to watch your child be sold and just separated from you. ... After reading this African American Literature piece, it showed me the horrible conditions of the slaves were and which pain and sorrow they had to live with. ...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Everybody wants a little piece of lan". ... As he says in one section "suppose you couldn't go in the bunkhouse an" play rummy with the guys," which just lets you know how separated he is from almost everything and how he is in need of at least some human contact. ...

• Word Count: 500
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

During this time in the southern states, black people had to use separate bathrooms, drinking fountains, sections in restaurants, churches, and even go to separate schools. ... The novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee has numerous accounts of racism and prejudice throughout the entire piece. ... There were separate schools, water fountains, restores, even churches. ... Throughout the novel, we see each separate person and his personal narrow-mindedness. ...

• Word Count: 1427
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Huckleberry's journey deals with racism, accepting those of a separate race, coming of age, and the search for freedom. ... The societies expectations allowed whites to be ignorant to the mistreatment of blacks and treat them as if they were a piece of property. ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

William Faulkner touches remarkably on all of these ideas in his piece entitled Wash and another work, Victory Mountain. ... Though marginally separated financially they still operate on the old southern ideas of class. ... Though there was a change after the war, they were inside and Sutpen was now in a chair while Wash was sitting on any piece of scrap left, the change was only minor. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I can't tell you more, but read the book, and the piece in the last September's Reader's Digest and you"ll know who I really am" (Griffin, 37). ... The distance between them and me was far more miles than that physically separated us. ... They would live on separate sides of the cities. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

After learning about Ruth's upbringing, he decides to visit her hometown of Suffolk in order to piece together her childhood. ... This reflects the theme because it shows how these two people, Ruth and James McBride, both face these separate obstacles in life, one being the death of Hunter Jordan, and the other one being James McBride's drug dependency, and yet, they are able to persevere through these events. ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Centuries later, even after the Civil War (the war that was so called fought to "free slaves" but in actuality was fought over power and control by two separate factions of the ruling class) Africans were still resisting. ... In this document, a police officer gives his account of the women's reasons for striking, "They swear they will never wash another piece for less than one dollar a dozen, but they will never get it and will soon give in....

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Many black leaders (such as pastors) and even some white leaders (such as Abraham Lincoln) began to favor a separate black nation during this tem. ... However, in response to the horrid conditions of "separate but equal" (Jim Crow Laws), in 1878 blacks organized the Liberian Exodus Joint Stock Steamship Company which took repatriates to Liberia. ...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School