Saar's work in the field of assemblage grants her much attention as well as her almost politically driven controvertial work such as the piece entitled The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972). ... Naturally, the ethnic group tends to be one in which the individual claims heritage (Phinney, 1987:10), Ethnic identity is separate from one's personal identity as individual, although the two may influence each other. ...

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Many black leaders (such as pastors) and even some white leaders (such as Abraham Lincoln) began to favor a separate black nation during this tem. ... However, in response to the horrid conditions of "separate but equal" (Jim Crow Laws), in 1878 blacks organized the Liberian Exodus Joint Stock Steamship Company which took repatriates to Liberia. ...

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