This gave African Americans the ability to have land and work. ... Americans responded by helping others in different ways. ... (Ch.26 American Journal). ... (pp789 American Journal). ... Anyhow with this boom in the economy came new ethics for many of major materialism, consumerism, and self indulgence. ...
It also reflects the Beats" scorn for the pressures exerted by the forces of convention, and materialism. ... Also with Diane di Prima he founded, in 1961 the American Theater for Poets, an experimental dramatic troupe which read the works of various poets and dramatist in local coffee houses. ... He was growing tired of the Bohemians, he joined the Beat generation because he regarded its members as spiritual outsiders who were against white middle - class America. ... He felt that the Black artist must express his American experience in forms that spring from his own unique culture and tha...
In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is enslaved by this emphasis on materialism and Nanny's unattainable aspirations. Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ...
