In the novel Ceremony, Silko displayed how the identities of Native Americans who participated in World War II, fighting for the U.S., shifted from the time they were enlisted to their homecoming and how the assimilation and integration of Native Americans and whites had also influenced their changes in identity. In this passage, protagonist Tayo tells about how Native Americans were identified by the outside world while they were enlisted and in active duty, "White women never looked at me until I put on that uniform, and then by God I was a U.S. ... After the war, in Ceremony, Silko in...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Giovanni's Room was a partially autobiographical story of his homosexuality. ... In 1961, Baldwin received true recognition for his literary skills. ... Charlie was based on the true story of a racial murder occurrence in Mississippi in 1955. ... First, in 1968, he published Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as a bitter account of American racism. ... This is not true. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After World War I, huge numbers of African-Americans migrated to the industrial North from the South; this movement is referred to as the Great Migration. ... This praise from the radio consultant can be compared to the literary works of Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance; this is because the artistic value of the works is appreciated by scholars while they still tell the story of racism and the effects of marginalization. ... In Lamar's mix tape, Section 80, he mentions during a spoken interlude in a song that someone must tell the story of their life in Compton to fully understand how...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, however Mark Twain wrote it after the Civil War itself. ... Huck's comments regarding Jim only deepen the portrayal of how African Americans were perceived by white Southerners. ... Growing up in the antebellum South, Huck embodies racist ideals and struggles to show moral development in order to break free of the ideas that are not truly his own, demonstrating to students how to find his or her moral standards. ... My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, ˜Let up on me "it ain&#x...

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The first being as to how this event quickly turned from cop versus man to white cop versus black man. ... So how does this story become relevant in the first place. Like anything else, the story of this event quickly rose to national attention through the networking and distribution of media and news outlets. ... (freedomoutpost.com) This suggests to any rational person that perhaps the leading black activist in the United States of America has no true credibility because he is willing to make up, sponsor, and campaign, a hoax that keeps a thing like racism very real. Al Sharpton has lacked i...

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• Grade Level: High School

Winona LaDuke tells of more than 1,000 tailings and slag piles from uranium mines dumped in Native American Din land (3). ... At the end of the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery (Boyer, et al. 502). ... However, with questions such as "How high is up?" ... Abraham Lincoln brought the nation out of civil war; Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute and theorized how African-Americans could reach political equality; "Sojourner Truth proved [an] excellent [lecturer] against slavery (Boyer et al. 324)"; Thurgood Marshall headed the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of t...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... The government felt that by her asking for this help they had the right to invade her home, tell her how to raise her children, and when the time came they put her in an insane asylum and separated her children, sending them to different homes. ... After the shoe shine job outgrew Malcom, he went to work for the railroad during World War II, this job landed him in Harlem and into a life of crime that was the bases for his life prior to prison. ... It was a letter from one of his broth...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School