1. African Americans in the Modern World
According to Alison Ravenscroft of Australian Feminist Studies, "The New Critics in the1980s: theirs was a conservative modernism, envisaged as an almost exclusively white male practice. ... According to Ravenscroft, "Where once modernism was celebrated for carrying the past forward, it now tends to be seen as writing against the narratives of Western history; where once modernism upheld the value of traditions, now it critiques Western phallocentrism for refusing raced and gendered differences.... At a certain time in history there was not really a problem with race. ...
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- Grade Level: High School