Also the author use the theme and literature to define their poems. ... The vernacular or native language that authors used in these two poems are kind of uneducated, in Miss Rosie author used the words of native language like (when I watch you wet brown bag of a women) {13}, and in poem of Mother to son author used the words of similar like educated (So boy, don't you turn back and don't you fall now__ ){14,17}. ... Both authors life time are in 1900 century, they have same tones they wrote Fiction and poetry, both of them are African American, they both had tensions in their life, ...

• Word Count: 546
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic. ... This day was portray in one of his essays called, "Notes of a Native Son". ... His move was not only the desire to distance himself from American prejudice, but to see himself and his writing beyond an African-American context. ... In 1983 he accepted Professorship of Literature and Afro-American Studies at the Five College Network in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... Delving into his own life, he provided a look at the black experience in America through such works as Notes of a Native Son a...

• Word Count: 925
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Since 1863, at least fifty-eight riots in America have been related to racism (Duncan 6). Winona LaDuke tells of more than 1,000 tailings and slag piles from uranium mines dumped in Native American Din land (3). ... Although it is called "The Civil Rights Movement," it is only a section of a greater American struggle for civil rights. ... America's first black man to earn a Ph.D. ... - Published literature against certain Jim Crow laws was illegal and punishable by six months imprisonment (83)...

• Word Count: 3013
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. ... This line is a sort of leitmotiv in slave literature, because of its incisiveness and clearness. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transformed them into slaves and created a new kind of man: the African American. ... The meaning of Middle Passage is not confi...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Introduction As a native New Yorker, I can remember growing up in Harlem on 112th street and St. ... The fear of race riots in the South caused large number of African Americans to move North. ... According to researchers, Harlem did become the capital of Black America. ... It was through literature that the promoters of the New Negro consciousness discussed their ideas and goals for the black community. ... This new sense of pride also emerged in the form of literature, music, and theater. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

African-American women had been under the racism and sexism of their environment for centuries. ... Even during slavery, African-Americans did indeed still manage to stand tall in the public eye. ... CHAPTER 3 Chapter 3 discusses the prejudice that African-American women faced. ... False science has somehow been able to dictate literature and the recording of history. ... The second stanza represents the attitudes to African-Americans over the course of the past few decades, when African-Americans have experienced a relatively significant rise in status. ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School