In her novel Sula, Toni Morrison immerses the reader in the rich and diverse lives to be found in the black community of Medallion. ... The ill treatment of blacks is brought into the novel's present day with the story of Shadrack, a World War I veteran and shell shock victim. ... After even the skinniest of immigrants is chosen before him, Jude finds the need for another person to recognize him and his manhood and to share in the pain a racist society has burdened him with. ... As the novel progresses, the line between life and death slowly blurs. ... Even the distinction between good an...

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According to another important historical context, blacks were immigrant from the South. ... According to Black American Literature Forum "Walter White was something of a renaissance man, writing two novels and promoting the arts among black peopleHis two novels were written during the 1920s, and his greatest effort to help black writers and artists came during that decade, tooWhite's efforts on behalf of such writers as Langton Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude Mckay, and Nella Larsen were important to their careers" (Huggins 154). As we can see, Whites wrote two novels to promote...

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On the night of February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx. ...

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