He stresses the idea that black slavery was "an economic phenomenon. ... However this idea is also debatable. ... If theses ideas are debatable, then we must question the way they are presented as facts. ... Although published for abolitionist purposes most slave narratives were very personal accounts, snapshots of lives rather than political statements. ... The slave narratives give an insight as to what life was like on a personal level. ...

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Before the Civil War, slave narratives such as these were the first to use such dramatic personal experiences of African- Americans in a text. These narratives, as well as others helped create terms such as "personal as political" and "consciousness raising", which were coined during the 1960's Women's Movement. ... In searching for a resolution to this conflict Jacobs demonstrates the power of personal agency in thought, speech and action. ... Double-consciousness refers to the idea that the Negro in America must look at himself through the lens of a white person, or in other words ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ideologies are not just ideas. ... Those differing ideas are neither good nor bad. ... Done creatively enough with certain signifiers, lighting and music, and the advertisers have gotten the ideas across. ... The narrative usually revolves around the perspective of a primary character or hero. ... The narrative is linear with a beginning, middle or climax, and ending. ...

• Word Count: 1987
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Allen is supporting the idea of male identities being the strong focus of Song of Solomon. ... Allen again supports the idea of Milkman's reassertion from immature selfish boy to knowledgeable honest man. "Milkman's transformation from an indulged and self-indulging child into a dangerously won maturity shapes the narrative line of event and perception,"" (30). ... Everyone wants Milkman's identity because he is the key to their own personal truth. ... Milkman is a prime example of a strong black man with no idea where to begin or even what he is looking for, but he finds it no...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She is most recognized for her career in poetry, whereby her style of writing was directed to self-empowerment, and to encourage people to rise over all odds and take personal pride of one's identity. ... Maya Angelou's was an African American, thus shared the totality of meanings, ideas, and beliefs with the black Americans. ... According to Bloom, her writing style can range from complex symbolical ideas to easy to understand and direct concepts (33). ... Angelou relied on black literature theories in writing whereby her poetry complements the search for self-identity among African...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Just as she casts aside men when she is done with them, Sula takes Eva's altered "cultural narratives of femininity and desirability" and uses them to recreate her own version of woman (de Angelis 174). Eva fashions her own cultural narrative by not allowing the departure of BoyBoy to devastate her life and the lives of her children. ... The focalization in this chapter is Nel-centric - ideas, descriptions and observations are only offered in reference to her. ... The narrative goes on to describe a changed Medallion, a place where blacks are assuming jobs traditionally held only by whit...

• Word Count: 2386
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• Grade Level: High School

Through modernism, many of today's innovative ideas have developed. Modernism is a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas. ... So accepting their modernistic ideas was very farfetched. ... Du Bois states, "The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing, -a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. ... " Celebrate the idea of being different from the majority. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She states that the idea to write this novel came from her childhood friend who wished to have blue eyes. ... Morrison uses two narrative voices. ... In "The Bluest Eye," Morrison shifts to varied narrative situations, which are: Claudia the first-person retrospective narrator and Claudia the first-person experiencing narrator. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Abstract Hip-Hop has long been demonized for its militant language and outlawed narrative as a part of American society. ... 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). ... Since the 1980s the American nation state has increasingly defined what it means to be American through ideas of whiteness, Christianity, wealth, masculinity a...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate