However, if any of those new ideas were to perhaps come from the mind of an African American it would be shunned and never brought into mainstream by white America. ... Other countries in the world have grown to accept African Americans as they have other ethnicities in the world. W.E.B Du Bois had a very modernistic perspective on the world. ... According to Alison Ravenscroft of Australian Feminist Studies, "The New Critics in the1980s: theirs was a conservative modernism, envisaged as an almost exclusively white male practice. ... That is not for me to say, but be brave! ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The kids from the Point only dislike Aborigines because they suffer from a bigoted view of the world, they learn from the stories about "Wild Nungas" told in the front bar. ... "BOONGS PISS OFF had been there for months" shows that prior to Dumby's entrance into Blacky's world, he had no initiative of removing the sign, but now through his changes it has become and urgent priority. ... Gary makes many new friendships with Dumby and his relatives, who help him to understand what it's like to feel rejected. ... Creeping into his father's room to gain possession of the shed ke...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" It is time I awaken to a better understanding of how I interact in the world and be aware of my own internal processes. ... Although it was validating to read about, the concept of Intersectionality was not a new one for me. ... The only answer is yes, although perhaps today, being touch wiser and hopefully braver, I may have found those words or reason; but maybe not. ... Today, I realize how profound that event was and what I learned about myself which includes facing the pain of my experience with oppression; of child abuse; of being female in a patriarch family and the world; and o...

• Word Count: 1267
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Native Son - Richard Wright #1 Post-Reading After Bigger Thomas, the central character of this novel, has "murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body,"" he thinks that he has "created a new life for himself. ... It gave Wright an opportunity to express his thoughts and feelings to the world. ... As a result of this exposure to the white world's hostility and aggression towards blacks, most of Wright's books portray both racial discrimination and the black response to that injustice; such as Black Boy and Native Son. ... He wrote Native Son to share his t...

• Word Count: 2344
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Since so much of black culture is intertwined in hip-hop, both old and new representations alike, it is an important source of pride, esteem and escape for the black community. ... Hip-hop has always been committed to the others as Toni Morrison declares, " what unifies hip-hop throughout the world is its emergence from the others within the empire, who ring profound changes in the nations discourse (Morrison, 1996). ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Resistance among Africans can be traced all the way back to the 1600's in Africa when they were captured and bound together on slave ships to face the harsh realities of The Middle Passage and The New World. ... " (Pg. 173) Trice bravely fought off fifteen men to protect his son. ...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School