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. ... 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! ... (quoted by Ernest Allen Jr.)...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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

The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... 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...

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