Introduction With the publication of his novel Invisible Man in 1952 Ralph Ellison certainly had his masterpiece. ... Washington The first chapters of the book describe the narrator as an innocent and naive boy attending a black college in the South. ... Even if that means denying his own black identity. That black identity is not possible in the white dominated American society is pointed out by Ralph Ellison - talking about his novel afterwards - reasoning that "whites have a monopoly on individuality and intelligence, and in order for a black man to lay claim to his own, he must neces...

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Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. ... African American women writers helped with the setback of these stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American experience, and especially African American women's experience and their search for identity in the American mainstream society. ......

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This ultimate challenge is highlighted in Dubois' novel "The Souls of Black Folks" in which he shows that there is not one but two souls that each African American has inside of him. ... In his novel, Dubois plays on the idea of identity and self-awareness (Dubois and Griffin 2005). ... During the Harlem Renaissance the issue of race became a central issue as "the first movement in which public discussions about the representation of black people in fiction reach a crisis point" (Bernard 408). ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel su...

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While the women cooked and gossiped, the men talked and boasted, and the whole thing appeared incredibly dramatic and magical through a young boy's eyes at that time. ... History of Black Power "Black Power" evolved from slavery. ... King and Carmichael to uphold the rights of "Black Power". ... King before hand told blacks that it was a nonviolent march. ... The "Black Power" march was over some blacks were injured, but the result was a positive. ...

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The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... The most recent statistics show that blacks are arrested and incarcerated for drug use at a much higher rate than can be accounted for by their rate of drug use. Blacks constitute some 35% of those arrested for drug possession, 55% of those convicted of possession, and 74% of those sentenced to prison for possession. ... The study also found that black-on-black crime or Latino-on-Lati...

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Song of Solomon CHARACTERS: Macon "Milkman" Dead - the protagonist of the novel. ... The woman tells her the boy's name is Guitar. The nurse spells out the name of the building where the security guard is and tells the boy to run and get him. ... While as a Black man he can't get the prime properties, he is able to get land no one else thinks about and land that no one wants to sell to Jews or Catholics. ...

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