Almost a decade later, Sam and his friend Willie can start a conversation with an adult and they can understand everything discussed, even if it does not directly relate to baseball. A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have make of them. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he snatched the book from me and threw me on the floor' 'I never saw where the whip came from; never even saw the first blow coming. ... Slave owners believed blacks couldn't hold the ability to own knowledge; therefore, they were restricted to any sort of reading or writing by law. ... Dana found it easy for ...

• Word Count: 1077
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literacy, in its turn, was denied from slaves because it would have given them access to perspectives on their condition and the ability to articulate and spread them among the reading public of the North. ... He decides to fight back by diverting the violence that was afflicted upon him by his master - "at this moment - from whence came the spirit I don't know - I resolved to fight"(Douglass 343), and later he adds "This battle with Mr. ... However, later he adds that "[t]he fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. ...

• Word Count: 1523
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From the late eighteenth century commentators began to associate The Tempest's plot, language and characters with Europe's exploration and colonization of America. ... New editions of The Tempest created a different atmosphere for reading it as a paradigm of exploitation by taking Caliban as a more a less "noble" slave. ... The view prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century took Caliban as an symble of imperialist oppressors whereas the view prevalent in recent decades took him as that of oppressed natives. ...

• Word Count: 2369
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Slavery in America in the late 17th century was a direct result of labor shortage and economic development in the English colonies. ... In addition, one must also understand events and concepts of specific time periods by reading history books such as Foner's book. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The features of the man, his hair, color and dentifrice, his 'subhuman' characteristics so widely pleaded, were only the later rationalizations to justify a simple economic fact: that the colonies needed labour and resorted to Negro labour because it was the cheapest and best.... In Williams reading he says "a Mississippi dictum will have it that 'only black men and mules can face the sun in July'"[Wil441], this way of talking about and referring to African men in this time really set the tone and societal norms that this way of speaking about another huma...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate