Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. ... African American women writers helped with the setback of these stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American experience, and especially African American women's experience and their search for identity in the American mainstream society. ......

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. ... Gerber in "Pudd'nhead Wilson as Fabulation,"" Mark Twain was not really a novelist - he was more of a "new journalist,"" who spun yarns that reflected American life as well or better than any "realistic- novel or overt political propaganda. ... In the private arena this meant wholesale intimidation, beatings, and lynching of black Americans, who didn't "give up the road."" ... Both blacks and whites (and every infinite gradation in be...

• Word Count: 3141
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This ultimate challenge is highlighted in Dubois' novel "The Souls of Black Folks" in which he shows that there is not one but two souls that each African American has inside of him. ... In his novel, Dubois plays on the idea of identity and self-awareness (Dubois and Griffin 2005). ... During the Harlem Renaissance the issue of race became a central issue as "the first movement in which public discussions about the representation of black people in fiction reach a crisis point" (Bernard 408). ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel su...

• Word Count: 3543
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The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... The most recent statistics show that blacks are arrested and incarcerated for drug use at a much higher rate than can be accounted for by their rate of drug use. Blacks constitute some 35% of those arrested for drug possession, 55% of those convicted of possession, and 74% of those sentenced to prison for possession. ... The study also found that black-on-black crime or Latino-on-Lati...

• Word Count: 3114
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The films of this period were mainly low-budget films which were screen on location to utilize the natural beauty of the arid Sertão where these films took a realistic view at Brazil's social condition and portray poverty, drought and race discrimination which where beautifully highlighted in black and white and play out by non-professional actors. ... However, starting from 1908 and lasting a period of four to five years the period Bela Epoca (golden age) were born where it was characterise by low-budget, black and white silent films where the producers were not constrain by any polici...

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Throughout his novel, Said identifies several dangerous assumptions made by the West about the Orient that had the chance, given the influence of the West over the past 2000 years, to materialize and contribute to the manifestation of complex issues within the Orient. ... Loti, while articulate in his descriptive details, could be described as conflicted, as he presented many contradictory claims throughout his novel. ...

• Word Count: 4296
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate