Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. ... This is not to say that the lesson DuBois teaches is superior to Washington's; it is only to point out a difference between their use of discourse. ... Which method is most effective is only decided in a sole person's mind and is not our concern. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many European Americans used music like many African Americans as a source of reconnecting with their lineage and discourse to the United States of America. ... Firstly, African Americans have used music as a marker of identifying their blackness and discourse from their homeland of Africa. ... Therefore, identifying black identity and blackness came fought through the method of music. ... These quaint songs were to the slaves more than a method for sending messages; they were a stimulus to courage and a tie to heaven for them. ...

• Word Count: 1424
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I will argue that political, religious and artistic discourses were appropriated and interlocked by different agents in order to achieve their respective objectives. ... Malcolm X had quite successfully appropriated the religious discourse of Islam and instrumentalized it to political ends. ... Here again we find the method of inversion, as "incarcerated people were central to the revolutionary aims of the Black Arts movement both in the works they wrote and in the symbol they provided of imprisonment in a radically oppressive society" (Borstelmann 2011: 101). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hip-hop has always been committed to the others as Toni Morrison declares, " what unifies hip-hop throughout the world is its emergence from the others within the empire, who ring profound changes in the nations discourse (Morrison, 1996). ...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. When the grip on the throat of the new Americans became too muc...

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