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". ...

• Word Count: 3585
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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. ...

• Word Count: 2972
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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. ...

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

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. ...

• Word Count: 4173
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• Grade Level: High School

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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This book is available for readers in 4 libraries. ---. ... "Reading references" at end of each chapter in both items. "Record illustrations" at end of most of the chapters of The Negro and his music. This book is available for readers in 2 libraries. ---. ... This book has been reprinted and anthologized countless times. ...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

This book is available for readers in 4 libraries. ---. ... "Reading references" at end of each chapter in both items. "Record illustrations" at end of most of the chapters of The Negro and his music. This book is available for readers in 2 libraries. ---. ... This book has been reprinted and anthologized countless times. ...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. ... Part I Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks To Slavery CHAPTER ONE What is Race? ... CHAPTER TWO Race and The Bible Many people are familiar with biblical stories and many religious ideas, and for the most part many of the stories and ideas agree. ... However when looking at the Midrash writings of the Biblical text as talked about earlier in this chapter, it states that Noah cursed the children of Canaan and not just Canaan itself. ... When Noah cursed Ham, he cursed his posterity as we see sta...

• Word Count: 3801
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... There are different reasons stated for the permanent or temporary removal of "A Time to Kill" from the libraries; when asked about the book banning in his home state of Mississippi, John Grisham himself assumed that it was because of the "graphic rape scene" in the first chapter. ... In a similar fashion, the seperation of churches in the district is d...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book "of Mice and Men" I am going to look at 3 different characters and compare them and how they cope with this disease. ... Crooks The most lonely character in the whole book. ... In chapter 4 Crooks gets the chance to be horrible to some one else. ... The characters all speak in a 1930's American style, like in chapter one when George says to Lennie We ain't got any' and An' watta I got?'. ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population then whites, so when the votes came about the blacks were voting for the republicans whom would be fighting for black people&#x...

• Word Count: 3198
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• 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
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• 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

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: 3712
• Approx Pages: 15
• 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
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Late 19th - Century American Literature Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson as a critique of 19th Century hierarchies based on racial segregation Mark Twain: Mark Twain was born on November 30th of the year 1835 in Florida, Missouri. His first job was as a printer and 1856 as a steamboa...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School