During the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, well-educated African-American people began producing literature that explained the horrors of racism. ... After World War I, huge numbers of African-Americans migrated to the industrial North from the South; this movement is referred to as the Great Migration. ... " This beautiful piece of literature shows the frustration of Claude McKay and his race that has been deemed powerless to the white culture. McKay shows that black people were forcefully taken from their home land of Africa and were turned into slaves for white people. ... Irene is t...

• Word Count: 2640
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Prison Literature in America. ... The difference in numbers over two decades reveals the corrosive effect of our incarceration epidemic on the health of the African American community. ... In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... The funding of Higher Education and corrections and its impact on African American men makes perfectly clearly the society's investment priority's producer commensurate results. ... Mississippi made it a crime for African Americans to be unemployed or drunk, or to have run away, neglected chil...

• Word Count: 3043
• Approx Pages: 12

Late 19th - Century American Literature Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson as a critique of 19th Century hierarchies based on racial segregation Mark Twain: Mark Twain was born on November 30th of the year 1835 in Florida, Missouri. ... For the following years Twain's literature became rather dull and negative. ... The reintegration of slaves, African Americans, had failed and certain laws were set up in order to maintain the divisions between black and white. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

All the '58 stereotypes are in abundant supply: mellifluous judge, evil, smirky prosecutor, drunken law professor, cynical divorce lawyer pal, good ol' dog, morally pure African-American, Cro-Magnon white racists.... 'CME' stands for Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, a branch of the methodist believe founded by former slaves in 1870, which up until today describes itself as "[c]omposed primarily of African Americans" (Lakey), seperating itself from the white majorities. ...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The steady loss of orientation of the social and political position of African Americans in America and the growing exodus of blacks from their homes in the south to the northern cities are issues that the Harlem writers tried to work through in their stories and poems. ... But the writers of the Harlem Renaissance started out to do something about this desolate situation in America and they expressed their point of view with the help of literature. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School