He is terrified of himself and every situation that he encounters in the book and the book shows what may happen when one lives by compulsively acting on fear. ... The book then fallows this theme, in the third book; Fate. ... The first time Bradley read the book, it simply infuriated and frightened him. He then picked up the book several years later, and had a different reaction to it entirely: one of sorrow. ... As a book, Native Son is every bit as important as a study of complete alienation, as it is a protest of racism. ...

• Word Count: 2755
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• Grade Level: High School

This book has been reprinted in New York at International Microfilms Press, 1970. ... This book is available for readers in 4 libraries. ---. ... This book has not been reprinted but is available for readers in 37 libraries. ... This book is available for readers in 2 libraries. ---. ... This book has been reprinted and anthologized countless times. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This book has been reprinted in New York at International Microfilms Press, 1970. ... This book is available for readers in 4 libraries. ---. ... This book has not been reprinted but is available for readers in 37 libraries. ... This book is available for readers in 2 libraries. ---. ... This book has been reprinted and anthologized countless times. ...

• Word Count: 2542
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• Grade Level: High School

"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... view of the damage that racial prejudice inflicts on both whites and blacks" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). ... Baldwin finished his long-awaited first book, Go Tell It On The Mountain, during a stay in his companio...

• Word Count: 2618
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In his incisive book, Islam in the African American Experience, Richard Brent Turner takes the reader through the evolution of Islam in black America. ... Part one of the book is called "Root Sources". ... The next chapter in the book is titled "Pan-Africanism and the New American Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb". ... During part one of the book, Turner attempted to bridge the gap between old Islam and new Islam in America. The second part of the book, called "Prophets of the City", begins in the early part twentieth century just after "the Great Migration". ...

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The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance. ... Toomer continually struggled with his own identity 'I wrote a poem called "The First American", the idea of which was that here in America we are in the process of forming a new race, that I was one of the first conscious members of this race'.7 Cane however, was still marketed by Waldo Frank as 'a book about Negroes by a Negro'8 and this slogan appeared in the New York Times and New Book Review. ... The book comes full circle, starting in the ...

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INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. ... PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER The book offers a variety of social commentary, especially on race-related issues. ... "(Stasio) However, despite this presumed irrelevance in the 21st century, the book is still banned in a number of schools and prisons across the southern United States. ... (Baldassarro) It is certainly not likely that a book that has no current-day relevance anymore would receive such a treatment. 4. ... The most extreme form of continued racism in the novel is the ...

• Word Count: 4938
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. ... So the book starts off in South Carolina in the Edgefield County where the American Revolution just ended. ...

• Word Count: 3198
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• Grade Level: High School

Deeply related with this universal appeal of the book is the historical existence of the different options offered to Blacks in the United States by diverse political groups at the time of the setting. ... The Invisible Man's Quest for Identity 2. 1 Disillusionment from the Philosophy of Booker T. Washington The first chapters of the book describe the narrator as an innocent and naive boy attending a black college in the South. ... To achieve this goal he believes "with all [his] heart and soul" (84) in the principles of Booker T. Washington - in the novel impersonated by the...

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• Has Bibliography

After he completed his junior year at Booker T. ... King wrote a book about the Montgomery boycott. His book is called Stride Toward Freedom. ... After this police incident, while at a book signing, King was critically stabbed by a deranged black woman. ...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: High School

The Colour Purple Chapter 1 The first few pages begin Walker's narrative of the life of Celie, a fourteen-year-old black girl who lives with her dying mother and her sister, Nettie. Her stepfather, Alfonso, is portrayed as the villain of the narrative, first demanding sex from Celie's sick mother and then demanding it from young Celie herself. The reader is struck by the colloquial, black-southern language of the text, as well as the graphic scenes of sexual abuse. Celie writes her story in the form of letters addressed to God. It seems she can trust no one else with her...

• Word Count: 4341
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Also, I"ll give my insight on what book and movie I feel can help someone understand the culture of the United States. ... If there's a book that I wanted someone to read so it can help better their understanding of the culture in the United States, it would have to be "Black Power Years". Why, because this book gives a reader an understanding of the birth, positive and negative aspects, just a complete history of the "Black Power Years". ...

• Word Count: 3405
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• Grade Level: High School

The 1830 publication of the "Book of Mormon" by Joseph Smith, officially established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that Smith, under divine guidance, translated a set of golden plates into the Book of Mormon. ... A large portion of the Book of Mormon describes the history of several pre-Christian civilizations that existed throughout America. ... It wasn't until 1880 that the "Pearl of Great Price" became common Holy Scripture and was incorporated with the "Book of Mormon". ...

• Word Count: 3075
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A book can be the window to a whole new world. Books can correct the slant that people see on certain things in their life. Books can correct misconceptions and ill conceived notions of other people, religions, and ideas. Books help people to understand something they have never understood before...

• Word Count: 4036
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• Grade Level: High School

Thurgood Marshall is one of the most inspirational men in civil rights history to date. He is just one of the motivating start buttons to the movement that I think could have been written about a thousand times and still not cover the complexity of his heart, strength and ideas. I believe this is wh...

• Word Count: 4823
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Martin Luther King we shall be looking primarily at the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. as edited by Clayborne Carson. ... It is a book about power, and how he aims to quell the idea that power has to be gained from violence. ... It is in this book that he states the inherent power in "silent protest", an idea that would later have him holding the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. ... The Bible was the most important book in their house but there were many other books as well. ... In terms of his education his schooling consisted of the Atlanta Public school system followed by the A...

• Word Count: 3793
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• Grade Level: High School

The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on ...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is im...

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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. From Christianity to Black Religion 4. Influence of Christianity . 14 Concludi...

• Word Count: 3801
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. Indeed, spirituality is a common thread woven through many of her characters. Morrison has a sharp insight into people as they relate to their Maker and each ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book showed both sides of Harlem, helping create a "Negro vogue- that drew thousands of New Yorkers, black and white, to Harlem's exotic and exciting nightlife and stimulated a national market for African American literature and music. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book-buying public. ...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The United States was founded upon diversity. Racism in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. These slaves were not brought by will, but by force, and they fa...

• Word Count: 3113
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• Grade Level: High School

Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the sta...

• Word Count: 8719
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• Grade Level: High School

The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. Indeed, spirituality is a common thread woven through many of her characters. Morrison has a sharp insight into people as they relate to their Maker and each ...

• Word Count: 3715
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• Grade Level: High School

In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or having darker pigmentation. In the late 18th century during the American Revolution the issue for women rights became prominent. This is what started the feminist movement which is defined as the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography