In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... Donnell does an excellent job of not only showing the readers what cool really means to people of African background, but also in giving some examples of why and how that came to be in a very clear way. This topic is a sensitive one, but it becomes a lot more understandable when one can really hear what Donnell is trying to say using the literary devices that he does. ... Sure, Alexander does a wonderful job express...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Setting: Another Country takes place in Harlem, France, Greenwich Village and other locales throughout numerous incidents in this literary work. ... The protagonists, for example, were two dissimilar male friends: Rufus Scott and Daniel Vivaldo Moore. ... Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... An example of his ornate writing would be the subsequent sentence: "The nature, the ferocity, ...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They maintained literary societies in which they could enjoy and foster their "culture.... The "genteel" had to come to terms with the representatives of the Negro masses who had received a professional education or had become successful in business. ... He gave examples and supporting evidence of his rationale. ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To be.'11 Alexander's poem makes an example of Toomers personal struggles with understanding his race, capturing how he was not trying to dissociate himself with his heritage but was trying to move 'beyond my body, this container of flesh'. ...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

A brief introduction to the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance is a literary movement also known as "New Negro Movement" or "Negro Renaissance". The literary roots can be traced by writers like Charles W. ... Sterling Brown, a participant of the Renaissance, even denied the Renaissance being a literary movement. ... These older men were for example, W. ... Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ... This segment is just an example of the prejudice that blacks and minorities continued to experience even when they were supposedly "included" in the work force. ... Alice illustrates this, "You mustn't think in terms of getting even with them [white people], you must accept whatever they do for you and try to prove yourself worthy to be entrusted with more." ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This is an example of selective processing, which Angelou referred to with the first two lines of the poem. ... The first stanza dealt with the attitudes to African-Americans from a general historical perspective over the course of many centuries (and the literary recordings of history that came with it). ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School