Often, Washington is angrily deferred to as an "Uncle Tom" where Dubois is championed as the true hero of African-American ideals. ... We must look for the source of the disagreement in what they tell us they see - what they base their most fundamental premises on. ... What one feels is that he is not the hero of his own story, that in fact the hero exists in the personified form of a principle - a principle called "Freedom", defined by Washington, temporarily exemplified by him throughout the course of the story. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, Du...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, however Mark Twain wrote it after the Civil War itself. ... Huck's comments regarding Jim only deepen the portrayal of how African Americans were perceived by white Southerners. ... Growing up in the antebellum South, Huck embodies racist ideals and struggles to show moral development in order to break free of the ideas that are not truly his own, demonstrating to students how to find his or her moral standards. ... My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, ˜Let up on me "it ain&#x...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In literature, African American writers have been telling the story of their multifaceted experience and history. ... 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. ... Despite being situated up in the hills, it is called the Bottom and it started to be called this way as a "nigger joke...The kind white folks tell....... The novel Sula illustrates how important the role of a mother is and can be. ... At this moment, Nel is...

• Word Count: 5084
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate