Eventually he traveled through Italy, Holland, Spain, and France, writing all the while. ... Hughes continued writing through the 190s and the 1940s, speaking for the poor and homeless black people who suffered during the Great Depression. ... Lawrence's greatest artistic and commercial success came in his genre and history paintings. ... Lawrence also worked n genre painting, the most successful series of which was the Builders Series. Sheldon's Paper Boats is another example of genre painting. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Wolfe is among the most celebrated authors of the early 20th century, and is credited for paving the way for autobiographical fiction genre, thus there is no doubt that Angelou's respect and knowledge of the author's work assisted in strengthening her autobiographical works. ... Maya Angelou uses a unique style of writing. ... Angelou's theories about literature can be established from her different works and style of writing. ... Angelou's writing theory is based on her life experiences, as well as that of other black Americans. ... Through her cultural context, influence...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Therefore hip-hop should be considered beyond its original status of a genre but as an essential learning tool to understand a consistently misunderstood and isolated faction of people. The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... Much of hip hops quintessence is essentially black in that it pulls from numerous forms of black m...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. Autobiographies were extremely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, because people were looking for models. Benjamin Franklin can be consider...

• Word Count: 900
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This new genre of sound was not only a new type of entertainment, but also a genuine American lifestyle. ... (Wintz, Page 64) It was very hard at this time to get their writing out since whites ran all the publishing places. ... "(Locke, Page 95) The outpouring of African American literature of the 1980s and 1990s by such writers as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison also had its roots in the writing of the Harlem Renaissance. ...

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Hughes wrote in many genres, but he is best known for his poetry in which he disregarded classical forms in favor of musical rhythms and the oral and improvisatory traditions of black culture. http://myhero.com/hero.asp?... The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social growing of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920s and 1930s. ... In the last analysis, the Harlem Renaissance ended when most of those associated with it left Harlem or stopped writing, while new young artists who appeared in the 1930s and 1940s...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Isn't it funny how in America the best golfer is black (Tiger Woods) and the best rapper is white (Eminem)." ~ Anonymous Race is a very major issue in America. It is present in our everyday lives. It is hard for anyone to honestly say that when they see a person they don't see color. We use pro...

• Word Count: 1433
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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 - ...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

• Word Count: 3305
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• Grade Level: High School