The story is set in Lorain, Ohio, the town where Morrison was born in and grew up in. ... One reason why she wrote "The Bluest Eye" is because someone would actually be apologetic about the fact that their skin tone was different than other kids. ... We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.... It exposes our tendency at times to equate race and class. ...

• Word Count: 1083
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(resist.com) His comments on the United States have a very racist tone. ... (whiteracist.com) His view is that all cities and towns should be white run and that all businesses should be white owned. ... "We always stress the inportance of our POWs. ... These racist movements are poisoning our society and sucking up our children. ...

• Word Count: 1468
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Near six o"clock on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grady County in southern Georgia" (Rampersad 10). ... Race will not just be a huge factor in sports, but in every aspect of our society. ... Are our beliefs in twenty-first century America still so archaic that we cannot hire a person with a skin tone other than white or someone other than European descent to coach our professional and collegiate sports teams? ...

• Word Count: 1632
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Well's father was also a race man in Mississippi who refused to be intimidated by the politics of his town. ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way that attitudes towards African-Americans have been embedded within our nation's history. ...

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