"Honky," by Dalton Conley, tells the story of a young man who must come to terms with his whiteness in an African-American/Latino ghetto. ... In the case of this memoir, Dalton Conley's skin color proves a difficult life he must face in the racially tense climate of New York City in the 1970's and 80's. ... Even in his own neighborhood in New York City, he realizes what a nightmare it is to grow up in the crime-ridden neighborhood. ... Dalton says, "As I walked the streets of Berkley on my first day, I noticed that this university town was run down in a different way than ...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It was at this time that Baldwin published his first essay, "The Harlem Ghetto". ... The Harlem Ghetto's echo, The Fire Next Time (1963) was another grueling and spiteful account of racism in the United States. ... He also began to write of his newfound observations of New York intellectuals and the racial and sexual tension among them in, Another Country (1962). ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Good Times appeared on 1974 (Ingram "Good Times") Florida and James Evans were lower middle-class blacks, with their three children in a high-rise ghetto on the south side of Chicago. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... The Huxtable residence, in New York City, where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. ...

• Word Count: 1691
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterdays and today's school drop outs are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did and they inevitably move into more and more, worse and worse, illegality and immorality. ...

• Word Count: 2034
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Social scientists have documented the rebellious spirit and acts of protest by blacks as they lay shackled in the holds of slave ships, labored in the fields of southern landowners, and settled into the urban ghettos. ... The NAACP had been founded in New York eight years earlier and had previously focused most of its organizing in the North. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The rise of black ghettos in northern and western cities may have complicated the problems of segregation and discrimination, but they also were grounds for encouragement for movements like the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

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