The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance. ... In one of Toomer's uncollected poems the poetic voice remarks 'my seeds were planted there o, south'14 suggesting that Toomer felt there was a debt that was owed to the rural south for his artistic development. ­­­­­­ The book comes full circle, starting in the south, moving to the north and back down to the south again. ... As just like sugar cane stalks, which grow in the south, black Americans derive their nourishment from the soil. ... The...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

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. ... " (215) the narrator expresses his erupted identification with the black race of the South. ...

• Word Count: 2972
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

Jim Crow laws were also in effect at this time and designed to limit the power of blacks in the South. ... The book has a character named Jim who is a slave. ... Twain shows in the book how people are racist towards him and how they mistreat him. It is not a racist book because in the time era that the book was set it was a way of life. ... One example is in chapter fourteen; Huck is talking to Aunt Sally about a steamboat explosion, "It warn't the grounding that didn't keep us back a little. ...

• Word Count: 1091
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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.... IM even gets eggs for breakfast instead of biscuits and grits in order to hide the fact that he is from the south. ... When the bank says "Feed Me" later in the chapter, it desires more fake money that is being stuffed int...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8

He explains the position that Booker T. ... He is still treated as a lesser person in the South regardless of his education. ... 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 was quickly put in check when he spoke with the judge, and once again was forced to relize how things really were for the blacks in the South. ... He also attacks the position that Booker T. ...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• 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
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

The civil rights movement emerged in the South, where a rich protest tradition existed. Most slave revolts occurred in the South, and the majority of Garvey organizational branches were in the South as well. ... Although, this movement established about 30 branches throughout the country, it gained little ground since money to support black advancement was primarily going to Booker T. ... Today the NAACP has over 500,000 members and 1,800 chapters across the country. ... Once word got out other cities around the south began bus boycotting as well such as Tallahassee, Florida. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• 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

In contrast, there's a book named A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki that tells America's history in a unique voice, from a minority side. ... In first chapter, Ronald Takaki did explain the stereotypes and prejudices of white people. ... In his book, A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America, we seem to think that America is full of white people and they're the majorities. ... Besides, I think not all Americans are from Europe, some are from Africa, Asia, South American, and many more, which Takaki will agree with me since he h...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). ... Finally I would say that Mark Twain was both influenced by the opinion of his parents, but also by the general attitude people had towards slaves in those days and especially in the South. ... This is a stereotypical description of small towns of the South in those days: "Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave-worked grain and pork country back of it."" (6) The reader soon learns that this innocent image is just upon the surface and in the depth we f...

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