Eventually, American-born composers realized they were facing a dilemma: much of the music and art they were producing from the English past was alien to Americans of non-English background. ... Black Nationalism is the name given to revitalization movements among black Americans. ... (Black Nationalism, 1) (Third Way, 2) Organized Black Nationalist movements appear to have begun with Paul Cuffe, a black sea captain. ... It has fostered a profound nationalism in black youth. ... It captures the black position of struggle, resistance, righteousness, and exploitation in Black America. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As a society, we have made so many improvements in so many different fields, yet the black man is arguably equally if not more oppressed than he was during the civil rights movement. ... This approval provided white slave owners with a lot more power which lead individuals to believe that white supremacy was not only the new belief system but the only system that was right for the American people as a whole. ... As portrayed by an Alabama farmer, "We have the power to pass stringent police laws to govern the Negroes; this is a blessing- for they must be controlled in some way or white peo...

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Still, Bledsoe has no interest in the college's existence to help the black race but rather he sees this institution as a possibility for him to execute power given to him by the whites. He achieves this power by behaving "humbly and respectfully" (90) and through "act[ing] the nigger" (120) towards the white trustees. Even if that means denying his own black identity. ... Washington's ideology the narrator first denies his southern black background when a typical southern breakfast is offered to him in a drugstore. ... " (215) the narrator expresses his eru...

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Betye Saar Betye Irene Saar was born in 1926 in Los Angeles, she is an American artist known for her part in the black arts movement in the 1970s, in her work she challenged negative myths and stereotypes existing of African Americans (Hillstrom, 1999: 581). ... It depicts a doll made to look like a "typical" or stereotypical American black woman, but strangely carrying a broom in one hand and a shotgun in the other. ... Betye Saar inspects her roots by looking at popular representations of the black female in America and incorporates her own ideas by turning the woman (Aunt Jamaim...

• Word Count: 3101
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate