1. African Americans in the Modern World
Claire Oberon Garcia of the International Journal of Francophone Studies stated, "The presence of this middle-aged black woman in this venerable public arena was itself a living challenge or negation of contemporary constructions of race and gender in that it instantiated a black woman's determination to inscribe her own historical agency.... (quoted by Ernest Allen Jr.)... According to Ronald Radano of Modernism/Modernity, "Du Bois celebrates the difference made real in black experience, while simultaneously exposing that realness as a discursive fiction that can be transcended...
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- Grade Level: High School