1. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
Parallel to the disagreements of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the civil rights movements of the 1960's, African American leaders W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington had different strategies to move towards African American progress. Du Bois illustrates his disagreements towards Wa...
Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Other chapters were more random and the examples went back and forth in time which caused me to re-read the introduction to refresh my memory on what the chapter set to prove. ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ... Their need for belonging grew and the fo...
The relevance of the issues discussed in the book today, concerning education of any color should begin with the people themselves. ... Reading this book helped and challenged me to express myself through words. ... For example, in chapter seven my football coach and then teacher had us write chapter summaries about thoughts on the book. ... "Have black churches become the dumping ground for uneducated people carrying the bible, you be the judge," as stated in chapter seven of the novel entitled Dissension and Weakness. ... The book speaks on its own and when you start reading it, yo...
I found this book very disturbing yet, engrossing at the same time. ... Morrison used many metaphors like this one through out the book. ... In one section of the book Morrison starts talking about Cholly, as a young boy and you don't realize it is Cholly until further on in that chapter. ... In another chapter of the book it starts describing another person and telling about his background, I thought "Why do I need to know about someone named Soaphead Church who "likes" little girls because they are pure and clean?"... So, when I was reading the story it took me until the end of the ...
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". ...
That's why this is a excellent book. ... After reading somewhat one third of the book, so after reading the republicans bash portion of the book, one thought that Moore had taken somewhat of a polital stand. ... Throughout the book Moore's gives suggests about how to change society to the better. ... But you'd think that reading chapter after chapter about what's wrong with america would get you down, cause a lot of these problems are dead serious matters, that concerns not just the american people but the whole world, but this book doesn't get you down, not one bit, y...
From the book, "I finally made up my mind I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name raise a moustache, and let the world take me for what it would;-(Chapter 10). ... In the book the ex-colored man experiences the good and the bad of both races and perceives them as basically equal. ... "There were two immediate reasons of my forced loneliness; I began to find company in books and greater pleasure in music" (Chapter 2). The ex-colored man wanted to "bringing glory and honor to the Negro race" (Chapter 3). ... All through the book he sh...
It is appropriate that each chapter of the book souls of black folk begins with a sorrowful way of freedom or grievance. ... Each chapter with a song, but the words of the actual text flow like as song as well. ... Each chapter has it's own story, just as every song has it's meaning. ... This book did a good job of illustrating the world of both the educated and non-educated African Americans, and how in many instances education did not make a difference. ...
Within these parts are chapters that pinpoints specific rules that are carried through politics. For example, in Chapter 1 of the Alliances section, Matthews starts off with his first rule that says "It's Not Who You Know; It's Who You Get to Know.... Based off the few chapters of the first part of the book, Chris Matthews focused on clarification of what alliances are like in politics. ... Lastly, in chapter seven of part two, Matthew closes this section of the book by explaining that it is better to respond to insults than ignore them. ... I think this book should be read by...
James Johnson ends his book, "The Autobiography of and Ex-Coloured Man" with a paragraph containing the statement, "[these men] are men who are making history and a race. ... Glimpses of strong opinion and lecturer style appear throughout the book. Chapter 2 begins with a long passage dealing with the disparities that cause problems between black and white men. ... Furthermore, Chapter 7 goes into a dialogue about "the club" that extends beyond commentary to adopt an educational element. ... Because it lies in the relative beginning of the book, one may assume that this tidbit of education...
In the final pages of Morrison's book, Nel decides to accept and understand how Sula chooses to interpellate herself. The title of the final chapter, 1965, is significant for a few reasons. It represents a leap of twenty-six years from the preceding chapter, a noteworthy amount considering that previously the largest time gap between chapters was just ten years. ... The two opening sentences of the final chapter disagree with each other: "Things were so much better in 1965. ... In 1966, postmodern author Leonoard Cohen's book, Beautiful Losers, demands an end to "genital imperialis...
In chapter five when Lily overhears August and June talk about her, she is offended when June says "But she's white.... In chapter seven, Lily meets Zach, a negro teenage boy who works for August. ... Towards the end of chapter seven, the beginning of chapter eight, Zach gets arrested when he doesn't rat out who threw the glass bottle at the police officer. ...
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. ... Therefore this is the fulfillment of his dream described at the end of chapter one. ... According to the teaching at the college he has already earlier denied it in the Trueblood episode in chapter two (cf. ...
In the book Bone Black, Bell Hooks gives a vivid look into her childhood. ... In the next few chapters she discusses how they were brought up to fear white people. ... Every chapter of this book tells another story of how she has become the person she is today. I would recommend this book to people, because it is very well written. ... I think that this is a book for all ages because it's a concrete book. ...
Tyler's book, "African-American Life in Louisville. ... At the beginning of the second chapter, "Lincoln Institute", the school Berea Hall is depicted. ... There was one in particular that rose above all the rest, and the title of chapter six of Mr. Tyler's book sums up the connectivity African Americans found through this activity perfectly, A Community of Faith. ... Tyler's book, Community Businesses. ...
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. ... Chapter 2 Mr. __ is gone for the entire weekend, chasing Shug Avery around town. ... Chapter 3 The beginning of this section is marked with the arrival of Mr. ... Chapter 4 Sofia is put in jail because when the mayor and his wife make racist remarks to her, she loses her control and punches the mayor's wife. ... Chapter 5 In this section, Shug and Mr. __ begin flirting again. ...
The first chapter of WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER describes a "race man", a politically active member in the community. ... CHAPTER 3 Chapter 3 discusses the prejudice that African-American women faced. ... CHAPTER 4 One of the more interesting paragraphs of Chapter 4 was how attempted "scientific studies" tried to show the hereditary patterns of different races of human species. ... This ties along with the main theme of chapter 1 and the first stanza of STILL I RISE. ... CHAPTER 5 In discussing prominent African-American icons, the topic once again turned to Ida B. ...
It appears so in the book, that religion knows no race, and therefore is very accepting to anybody, no matter who it may be. In this case, in Chapter 6, the author tells about his past experiences going to Church with his family, and recalling his mother's true embrace of Christianity, her singing voice, the fact that she was the only white person there, and how odd and exaggerated Reverend Owen's sermons were whenever going to Whosoever Baptist Church. ... Later on in the book, when the family of Ruth McBride and her children move to Delaware, James McBride becomes increasingly invo...
Although black is said to have good and positive attributes, rust represents the negative perception of their character and is reinforced numerous times throughout the book. ... The falseness of the pipe's exterior also alludes to the Optic White paint in the Liberty Paints plant in chapter 10. ... Later in the book IM says, "If only I knew who it was.... When the bank says "Feed Me" later in the chapter, it desires more fake money that is being stuffed into its mouth. ... In Chapter one, IM experiences the "battle royal," where he first participates in a fight b...
The announcement of the formation of the church was coupled with the publication of a 511 page screed titled "Nature's Eternal Religion- The book was a centerpiece for the church. ... At age twelve he bought and read the book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."" When he finished the book he was a sympathizer of Adolf Hitler. ... He joined the "church- and maintained contact with the home chapter in Otto, North Carolina on a regular basis. ...
Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... Further, dividing the book are small excerpts from the "Dick and Jane" primer that is the archetype of the white upper-middle class lifestyle. ... The excerpts from "Dick and Jane" that head each "chapter" are typeset without any spaces or punctuation marks. ... Morrison unpacks the metaphor throughout the book, and, through Claudia, finally explains it and broadens its scope to all African-Americans on the last page. ... The importance of this book goes beyond its val...
One of the first symbols in the book is the "ancient bicycle" his mother rides after his stepfather dies. ... McBride always thought his mother was odd, and this symbol of the bicycle helps prove it. 4) The main conclusion The Color of Water concludes with McBride closing the last chapter in his search for his identity and his mother's uninformable past/life. ...
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 ...
