As explained in the book Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music, in 1949, the term "Race Music" lost its luster (Bayles 110). ... As described in Hole in Our Sole, music geared towards blacks was of very little interest to major record companies and radio stations. ...
Divided We Fall John Davis, a 28 year old African-American software engineer who has an annual income of $110,000, waits for a real estate agent in front of a beautiful two-story house in Kirkwood. He owns a small software company called Hi-Tex that is located only a couple of blocks from his...
1. Introduction With the publication of his novel Invisible Man in 1952 Ralph Ellison certainly had his masterpiece. It tells the story of a young African American in search for his own identity by struggling with various life experiences. For this reason it is indisputable that Invisible Man is - principally - a bildungsroman as the novel "follows the development of the hero [...] through a troubled quest for identity" (Baldick: 24). And since the protagonist of the story also functions as the narrator one can even go further and narrow it down to the genre of a künstlerroman (cf....
One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...
