Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Other chapters were more random and the examples went back and forth in time which caused me to re-read the introduction to refresh my memory on what the chapter set to prove. ... The immigrants were ready to let go of their ties to Ireland, "choose between Ireland and South Carolina, we say South Carolina forever". ... Many charact...

• Word Count: 1854
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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

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

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

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