As the little boy dreams that he will one day he may, "shade him from the heat till he can bear, to lean in joy upon our father's knee," the little black boy has an inclination toward subordination despite his acting out of love. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Equality: Why We Can't Get There Racial and economic equality in the United States is impossible. Starting with slavery, moving to Jim Crow and culminating with hate crimes and racial profiling, there has been a continuous stream of factors preventing the realization of an equal American societ...

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We then must look into whether the characters are choosing racial identity based on the recollection of their mothers in Maggie, or the inclination to ascribe negative characteristics to another race. ...

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Other repetition in this essay includes the time and time again use of, "making a dollar out of fifteen cents." (368) The repetition of this quote is important because it gives the reader a physical image of the " inclination to make something out of nothing- (368) in order to show that cool is not just the blind acceptance of the popular culture, but instead something the black community has learned to do thorough history. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate