His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. ... After arriving in Mexico, the tension between Hughes and his father was strong. Hughes wanted to be a writer; his father wanted him to be an engineer. ... He actually wanted his audience to taste the whole of the African American experience. ... Within a short time McCarthy himself was discredited and Hughes was free to write at length about his years in the Soviet Union in I Wonder as I Wander in 1956. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. ... After graduation he spent a year in Mexico and a year in Columbia University. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their own culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ... He wrote poems like "Mother to Son,"" The Negro Speaks of Rivers,"" "Border Line,"" "Merry Go Round Colored Child at Carnival,"" "Harlem,"" "Dreams,"" and "I sing America."" ...

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In the poem "I, Too,"" Hughes opens with "I, too, sing America."" ... At the age of seventeen, Hughes traveled to Mexico to visit his father. He saw that the Mexican people took great pride in their identity through their art. ... The black people of America wanted to fit into the white man's world. ... "In the Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,"" Hughes further challenges blacks to accept their race by saying, "it is the duty of the younger Negro artist to change through the force of his art that old whispering I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to Why s...

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The freedom to live where they want, to own property, to take part in government, and to live and be treated like a human being. ... The Chinese were also discriminated against, and used for work that no one else wanted to do. ... Today and in Southern California, Mexicans suffer from discrimination, similar to what others have faced before. ... I think that this problem will not be solved unless, society as a whole works to accept one-another....

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At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... The Breedlove appartment used to be a storefront the furniture was dilapidated no love and comfort (no good memories) cold (like the cold atmosphere) a brutal family life The MacTeers have their own small house is poor but "loving" (for instance when Claudia is ill) "So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die" (p. 7) The society The story implicates that Pecola li...

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An good example of this is a dialogue between two detectives: Ria:You want a lesson? ... Neither one of those is Mexico. ... Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns? ... It's been assumed that I'd own a Karaoke machine, simply because I am Filipino. ... I laughed - I was not offended - but I reminded him to be careful not to generalize or hold to stereotypes of other nationalities. ...

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I asked my granddad. ... Kind of like how people in California think of Mexican-Americans. ... Of course I said no but he said that if I did not want trouble that I need to find myself in better company. ... I asked. ... It started to get to the point that every black person I saw I wanted to kick the (you know what) out of. ...

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In one of the scenes he Cameron says that if a black person would write a report about Malcolm X or if a Mexican would write a report about Cesar Chavez that they would get commended for it. 13. ... First, Derek approached Cameron Alexander and said that he wanted out. ... Then Cameron asked Derek if he wanted to take over and Derek responded with a one two punch combination and left his office. Then Seth went into Cameron's office and found him lying on the floor, so he went after Derek with a gun and everyone in the crowd wanted Seth to shoot Derek because he wanted out, but he di...

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There are works by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and so on. ... Carver's stories focus on ordinary lower-class people who aren't particularly smart or particularly successful as described again in Cathedral, "I'd wished she'd come back down stairs [my wife], I didn't want to be left alone with a blind man."" ... "I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap."" ...

• Word Count: 905
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate