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...
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 ...
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. ...
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 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. ...
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. ...
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 first and most interesting point worth examining in William Wells Brown's narrative is how the title of his book is written. ... In Chapter XI, Brown writes of his first attempt to escape slavery by traveling to Canada and then adds, "American democracy behind, liberty ahead....
The book is written by Mildred D. ... The book reflects this as one section reads: ""This folks so bad in here. ... Due to the lack of legal protection for black people, guns and weaponry feature highly in the book. ... Also in the book, every time a "white" entry is written under the race of student, a capital "W" is used. ... The book then goes on to explain how Lillian Jean pushes Cassie into the road. ...
AgFund Response I read the AgFunds story the week after you mentioned it in class and then reread parts of it today. The whole subject is an uncomfortable one without a doubt. The delay in response is due primarily to two reasons. First of all, I didn't want to insult your intelligence with a ...
"Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness," (pg.45) what would drive a girl of such a young age to be so consumed with a seemingly adult problem? Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is the story of young black girl growing up in a small town in Ohio, duri...
He explains the position that Booker T. ... This chapter, and particularly this passage, (149-150), is a perfect example of the problem facing a black person at this time when it came to entering the society on the same level as white people, which is related to the problem of the veil. ... He also attacks the position that Booker T. ...
"There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting." Whe...
