Further, Equiano's narrative is that of a man struggling to find his identity. ... However, through the course of the narrative, it is seen that Equiano successfully persevered to shape an identity in spite of the world. ... This creature combined the elements of water and air, as Equiano eventually combines the elements of himself, to transform and find its identity. The hope for freedom and liberation is apparent throughout the text, and becomes an important aspect of his identity. ... Throughout his life, however, Equiano gains a sense of identity and the same ability to transform. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her understanding of the Saint Domingue and the Haitian revolts against Melville's Benito Cereno demonstrate that these events united the doubts of African identity. ... In "Reinventing the Present," Iyunolu Osagie connects the collective literary and cultural memory of Diaspora African in drama and art as an representation into the politics of identity and the reconstruction of black identity in the African Diaspora and Sierra Leone. She reminds us that African identity came into question as a function of the need to control a huge, racially identifiable free labor force. Iyunolu Osagie ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Secondly, the impact of colonial powers creating colonial states and the depredation it had left on African minds, identity and people. ... In Pre-colonial Africa, people had several identities at the same time. ... The notion of identity within pre-colonial Africa was fluid and flexible; it tended to change with the environment of the individual. ... Not only did the colonial state provide a simpler way of understanding identity, the colonial state provided religion and schooling systems in order to conduct the behavior of the colonized subjects. ... It can be seen that the main Holy Grail...

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Even though Douglass states how religion was used in a negative way towards the slaves in his book, he does however differentiate Christianity identity. ... From this separation of the two, it is evident that Douglass defines his Christian identity outside of the realms of the white Christian identity. ... Washington discusses about the same idea about how Douglass distinguishes his own Christian identity verses the white Christian identity. ...

• Word Count: 1984
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The quest for identity is another prevalent theme of slave narratives, but there are differences in formation of identity between the two authors presented here. ... Such details as birth dates, family ties among slaves and parentage, which are basic for constructing an identity, were withheld from slaves in order to prevent them from establishing a sense of self that could lead to alliances or organized rebellions. ...

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But the key point is that the debate was not so resolved as built into the fabric of our national identity." ... In fact, the complete opposite has been built into our national identity: we have become entangled in every world affair possible. ... Although the issue of neutrality was one that was not built into our national identity, slavery and assumption of state debts certainly were. ...

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Thus we can say that, Douglass' Narrative feats very well Lejeune's definition of classical autobiography not only because it is written from the first person singular perspective but also because the author, the narrator, and the protagonist share a common identity. ... For this reason our concerned in this part is to study how out of this nothingness, this non-identity, Douglass was able to forge his own sense of himself. ... In order to demonstrate that we shall first explore the relationship Douglass established between language and identity. ...

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Links via relations to other family members in other villages created the kinship ties and the same sense of identity similar to slaves in North America. By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... All of this adaptation was necessary to the survival of the slaves but did not eliminate the slaves need to maintain a certain sense of their own cultural identity, achieved by learning to integrate their own norms of behavior and beliefs with those of t...

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There was an effort by the slave owners to remove the identity of the slaves. ... A new name signified a denial of the slave's former identity and a confirmation of the owner's power7. ... Music played a significant role in African cultural identity during colonialism. ...

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Double-consciousness refers to the idea that the Negro in America must look at himself through the lens of a white person, or in other words take on the consciousness of the white American, as well as his native identity. ...

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One possible answer draws on the different values of societies around the Atlantic and, more particularly, the way groups of people involved in creating a trans-Atlantic community saw themselves in relation to others in short, how they defined their identity. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... Because Amerindians died in large numbers, and insufficient numbers of Europeans were prepared to cross the Atlantic, the form that this demand took ...

• Word Count: 4994
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Kenneth Stampp was a professor of History at the University of California, Berkley. Stampp was known for countering the arguments of famous historians about the characterization of slavery. He is best known for his revised assessments of three central chapters in the American experience: slavery, th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois conti...

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Abraham Lincoln's human nature develops from his love for nature itself: "Cutting and splitting trees gave Lincoln an identity; at the point of contact between calloused hands and ax handle, he began to develop a mature sense of himself and his relationship to the world" (Fiege 161). ...

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The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. Therefore I am in favor of reparations for African Americans. The effects of slavery have been an enduring issue within the Black community. Many of us are cognizant of the harm ra...

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When one imagines the trans-Atlantic slave trade, it is easy to see the typical vision of European men probing the wilds of Africa for selections of potential slaves. Though this is what frequently comes to mind, this mental image is not entirely accurate. History often likes to portray all Africans...

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The Afro-centric idea Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998 Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin the African Diaspora: African origins and New World identities Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. ...

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Historical Incidents That Triggered the Gilded Age Immediately after the civil war, forces on both sides of the battlefield breathed a sigh of relief as the worst conflict man had ever conceived mercilessly concluded. Many failed to realize that more uncertainty and change was on the verge of...

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Caliban, the original monster and barbarian in The Tempest, has been far removed in both time and interpretations from the original one Shakespeare created four hundred years ago. Having been portrayed in literary criticism as a giant fish, a grotesque monster, an American Indian, an African slave, ...

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It has become evident that our service, Women's Community Center, is experiencing a growth in the number of Asian women using our facility. A review of the case notes has revealed symptoms and histories that would indicate that many of these women may have been trafficked into Australia for the purpose of sex slavery industry. As a social worker, at the Women's Community Centre, there is a need to research issues surrounding this cohort of women and the best practices that may be implemented to support them without causing further risk of harm. I ask that the board of Women's Co...

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The Preservation of a Precious Culture The institution of slavery was very trying for newly captured Africans. They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. Once in the new world and on the...

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