Barakas's classic Beat response to these forces however, was one of cool disengagement. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxii) A major change in Amiri's thoughts about political activism began when he was invited to go to Cuba with a group of black writers. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... There was some truth to it, because I was struggling to be born, to break out from the shell i was instinctively sense surrounding my own dash for freedom"(...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The reader needs to consider how they were constructed and for what purpose. ... The Slave narratives gave this "mode of production" a voice, allowing the reader a glimpse of the human side of slavery. ... Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the introduction to The Classic Slave Narratives states "the slave narratives came to resemble each other, both in their content and in their formal shape" (1987: x). ... They give the reader a picture of how the master and the slave interacted. ... The reader must always keep in mind the limitations of each source and be aware of who was writing it and why....

• Word Count: 1309
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

(p.3) All throughout the novel, it is very interesting to note that Ellison has never mentioned the protagonist's name, but instead the readers are guided by the narrative and informed that he is given a new name as the plot develops, and intriguingly, the protagonist adapts to each of the name that was given to him. ... (p.450) The protagonist is said to represent a classic case of the misguided Negro who was taught by society to despise his own race. ...

• Word Count: 1723
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. ... Junius Williams claims that memoirs can be reliable historical resources and make lessons come alive within the reader (Williams, 2014). ...

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