Black/Standard English Black English or Standard English? ... This language was titled "Black English." ... It makes a statement about police brutality in the black community and ties it back to the brutality of blacks in the history of the country. ... On another note, while arguing the point that these are racist cops, why is such a harsh separation of "black and white standards" evident? ... To say that these cops killed a boy strictly because of his color is a dangerous statement. ...

• Word Count: 956
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This passage goes on to note how black people laughed and tormented him. ... The black boy still sees himself as Weddel's master and he refers to him as such in many passages, "Wait Marsa Soshay," he screams to Weddel (Mountain Victory 774). ... Furthermore, the consideration of the treatment of the black boy by the Union man Vatch will help reveal the deep rooted racism the north has for the black race. On more than one occasion Vatch refers to the boy as a nigra and dismisses him. ... Faulkner represented the plight of the black man through many characters and situations in these two...

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

Mallon is quick to note that, in Ernest J. ... In his story Gaines creates a society denying black men the opportunity to provide for their families, the opportunity to be treated equally under the law, and the proper respect of being called " Mister" instead of "boy," but it is a private or internal struggle more than any public or external debate that creates the real identity crisis for the young black man in Gaines" story (Meyers 414). Gaines shows this harsh struggle by writing about, James an eight year old boy forced to grow up by his mother, Octavia. ... Though t...

• Word Count: 1070
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• Grade Level: High School

Indeed, Joe's life is shaped very much by the women he encounters as a young boy; the dietician and Mrs. ... It is interesting to note as well, that it is the dietician who causes Joe to be taken out of the orphanage, the only home he has even known, by telling the matron of the orphanage of Joe's mixed heritage. ... Joanna is theoretically a member of neither the white race nor the black race. ... Likewise, Black people avoid Joanna because she is White. ... Claiming his Black blood now would be an acceptance of damnation, whereas to Joanna at this point it would be her only salvat...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School