The same Anthology goes on to say that major happenings in the history of African Americans such as the slave trade and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment are times in which African American people collectively adopted an identity as a path to restoration and healing (Gates and McKay, 1996). ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel such as "A Raisin in the Sun" or "The Souls of Black Folks", you cannot immediately assume that this story represents every single African American family across the United States. ...

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