"All thought flows, all is grace, because Baldwin is writing solely from himself, from an inner necessity, which generates a variety of approaches and an affluence of themes and variations" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). ... My Dungeon Shook contains advice to a young black male who is the author's nephew and is about to enter the area of racial conflict on the 100th anniversary of the proclamation that is supposed to have set him free. ... The personal ritual states a series of ideas relevant to contemporary America. ... "James Baldwin's most valuable quality ...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The first half of the book addresses what the author perceives to be obstacles to the formation of these multiracial coalitions. ... The author identifies two types of racism-biological racism and cultural racism. ... Of the American educational institution he writes: "To what extent are the contemporary social deprivation theories merely substitution notions of environmental immutability fatalism for earlier notions of biologically determined educational unmodifiability."(p 17) Although the author shares Mr. ... What the author appears to be saying is that surmountable obstacles to mu...

• Word Count: 1618
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Many authors and literary critics saw connections between literary content and social influence. ... Offering alternative perspectives on American identity and culture, Sui Sin Far, along with many of her contemporary writers of color, actively challenged mainstream readers' preconceptions and contributed to a social climate in which increasing numbers of writers of color made their voices heard in print. ...

• Word Count: 2633
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It seems that the only way to present honesty is through the use of satire and tragedy since no one can suffer through a completely realistic self-examination, including the author. ... The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. ... (Gillman, p.58) The clockwork functioning of the Siamese twins master/slave relationship is juxtaposed against the disorder inherent in the antebellum slave society (and in Twain's contemporary post-Reconstruction society) where definitions of color are arbitrary and there is no clear agent of powe...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Civil Rights Movement in Miami The Truly Prolonged African American Experience in Miami How strange it all seems now equality. People had to fight for it? Kill for it? Go to court to defend it? Not too long ago, it was all true and clearly evident in any regular functioning day. The...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There, he first met Richard Wright (an African-American author whose strong protests against racial prejudice made him one of his generation's most important spokespersons) and began his first novel, In My Father's House. ... The contemporary significance of Blues for Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author describes the customs and clothing of these trailblazers, and also emphasizes that they all were well educated. ... The author makes it known that he believes that Pan-Africanism bridged the gap between "old Islam" and "new Islam" in America. ... The author wants to show us that Blyden's sentiments would carry over into the twentieth century, when Pan-Africanist would attempt to use West African Islam as a model for black communities in America. ...

• Word Count: 3585
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

After brief service in the Civil War he started writing as a journalist and later as an author. ... Sundquist says: " More specifically, it corresponds to an array of dualisms compromising the contemporary American racial trauma: theories of miscegenation and "blood- contamination that polarized the races and divided the mulatto identity,"- (50) Sundquist hints at a problem that is inhabited by Americans, and especially by white Americans living in the South. ...

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