According to Ravenscroft, "Where once modernism was celebrated for carrying the past forward, it now tends to be seen as writing against the narratives of Western history; where once modernism upheld the value of traditions, now it critiques Western phallocentrism for refusing raced and gendered differences.... Unfortunately what happens most of the time is African Americans succumb to white America's ideology in order to ensure a better future for their family. ... If African Americans don't try to strive toward higher things than what white America has deemed fit, then they ar...

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The children made a decision with their father that the bathtub was the safest....they knew their father was in danger....and they always worried about that." ( Williams, 223) The majority of the adults that fought for the change in civil rights, not of the present because that was not possible, but for the future of their children and the children to come. ... So he worked harder for the future of the Country. ... When he returned from the war, he and his brother were once again hit with a reality check that would again spark his drive to fight for civil rights. Once he returned home, ...

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(11-14) These last lines show the speaker's feelings that America's attitude will not change in the future. As he looks "darkly" into the future it is clear that America has already wasted her potential to ethically be a great nation. ... Once he is strong, the white people can no longer ask him to eat in kitchen. ... While McKay paints a desolate future for black people living in society, Hughes waits for the day when blacks will finally have their equality. ...

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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 8) Martin Luther King concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding on the current campaign, what his hopes are for the future, why he wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, why the campaign was the right thing to do, why America was a better place in January of 1964 than it was in January of 1963, and why America can't wait any longer to be wholly free. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to National attention with the Mar...

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Why We Can't Wait History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 8) Martin Luther King concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding on the current campaign, what his hopes are for the future, why he wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, why the campaign was the right thing to do, why America was a better place in January of 1964 than it was in January of 1963, and why America can't wait any longer to be wholly free. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to Na...

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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 8) Martin Luther King concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding on the current campaign, what his hopes are for the future, why he wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, why the campaign was the right thing to do, why America was a better place in January of 1964 than it was in January of 1963, and why America can't wait any longer to be wholly free. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to National attention with the Mar...

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The poem "Mother to Son" uses an extended metaphor comparing a stairway to the mother's life; this troubled yet courageous view of her life gives inspiration to her son and to future generations of all races. ... Much like a hiker or marathon runner, once you stop moving, you lose momentum and the ability to return is nearly impossible. ... The poem uses the stairway metaphor as a means to be inspirational as well as a warning to the future to continue, that which is started, and "we shall overcome". ...

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He was considered a threat and named a "notorious Negro agitator " by the future first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. ... This apprenticeship not only established a base for his future involvements with newspapers, but it also taught him the means of delivering messages to masses of people. ... He wasted no time once back in Jamaica to start his own organization of which he planned to finally liberate his race through. ... Garvey settled in Harlem, New York once in the United States. ...

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He leaves the Brotherhood once discovers this, deciding to work on the streets. ... Once individuals like IM receive that money, they fear it is harmful to their future. ... The coins described in this passage are symbolic of painful objects for which IM once had a desire, but has now received too much, and in turn has sunk his fears into a deeper hole than before the Brotherhood. ... Once the brawl begins, IM is eagerly trying to grab as many pieces as possible because of his desperate need for money. ... Upon reflection, IM once had a desire of collecting as many coins as possible. ...

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He once again puts the respectability politics in a positive light, in the hope that it will convince readers to agree with him in his support and defense of them. ... Throughout the entire essay, Kennedy never once portrays the respectability politics in a negative manner. ... The author does an excellent job of intelligently responding to all of his critics, never once allowing anyone to prove him wrong. ... "At no point has there been more reason for young black men and women to be hopeful that investing in themselves will pay dividends in the future. ...

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The American dream is not only to accomplish your goals but to also feel comfortable and secure once they have been accomplished. ... This once again correlates to people having different American dreams based on their situations and struggles. ... Once again we see how our American dream can be affected by our race and were we come from. ... That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations - those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. ...

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Although roughly ten percent of the total population of the United States is black, more than half of the two million incarcerated Americans are black, ("Racism, Prisons, and the Future of Black America" 2000) The pattern of racial bias in these statistics is confirmed by the research of the US Commission on Civil Rights, which found that while African Americans today constitute only 14% of all drug users nationally, they are 35% of all drug arrests, 55% of all drug convictions, and 75% of all prison admissions for drug offenses. ... ("Racism, Prisons, and the Futur...

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Towards the end of the book, Janie resents her grandmother for "living" her life for her and planning her future. To find out what will happen in a persons future, they need to live their life on their own and not have it planned for them. ... So, Janie was not happy once again with her situation. ...

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And once he got out he finished his degree in English at Columbia university. ... His ten year period of shedding his white world that he was once so deeply ingrained in, he began to write anti-white poems and essays. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... Once a woman asked him couldn't amy whites help? ...

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The future would prove no better as the KKK was formed and the civil rights struggles that would carry themselves from reformation to today's contemporary America. ... Not only would they have to find a means of displaying their intelligence in a world that denied them education, but also they would have to prove to themselves that they were not inferior to those that once were their masters. ... Once the smoke settles, the United States may have the right to finally call itself a free and equal country....

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Everyone has felt at one point in their life that they did not belong or fit in because of specific standards and expectations that have been socially constructed by society, for example being attracted to the same sex, being too big in the waist or simply just because they are considered to be the wrong skin colour, whatever the case may be, everyone of these people have wanted to at least once in their lifetime go unnoticed. ... Being of the white race is something seen as superior, and those who benefit from the dominant standpoint (Caucasia) see it as a norm and are oblivious to the other ...

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With unfair trade practices and a limited amount of capital being exchanged, the blacks in the South were not free to do as they pleased; once again they were caught in a system that profited the white Southerners. ... Once more, they were aided in their goal with the Supreme Court rulings that limited the implications of the 15th Amendment. ... Southern whites were allowed to set up a system that kept blacks as prisoners without any say on their future. ...

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Washington once said, "Blacks should specialize in their traits in order to develop successful black businesses and develop economic stability.... Not knowing what the future holds, she went on to become one of the greatest women ball players of all time. ...

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"Owning, building, acquiring-that was his life, his future, his present, and all the history he knew. ... Identifying his true self and allowing himself the responsibility of his actions all led to his deep longing to go off on his own and, for once in his life, not owe anyone for anything. ...

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America's once great city, Detroit, used to produce the largest amount of automobiles than any other city on the globe, with almost 300,000 manufacturing jobs circa 1950, and now there are barely 30,000. ... Either way, they lack the means and motivation for school, so they can't really have a better financial future than some sort of manual labor or retail position. ...

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Little did he know that his little church would be the future meeting place of rallies against segregation. ... Even though these hurtful things happened to him, he never once gave up and backed down. ...

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Many African Americans sang this song to show patriotism and hope for the future considering the fact that they were dealing with racism. ... While African Americans were ensured rights amid the Reconstruction period, once it finished a large portion of those rights were taken away after the U.s Supreme court ruled "separate however equivalent" offices were sacred in the 1896 Plessy V. ... Everything was isolated once more than, Bathrooms, drinking wellsprings and restaurants. ...

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In the novel A time to kill, we witness the heroic actions of Jake Brignance, a young male lawyer who takes the chance of defending a black male who turns a rape case into a murder case. Jake is faced with burning crosses at his door, and numerous occurrences of captivated people telling him no...

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To know that two opposing sides generate a war via alleged interests or views is highly important. However, if one should know the catastrophic effects during the war, this would be the underlying truth. This also holds to be true for African Americans during World War II. World War II was basica...

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Once white superiority had anchored itself to the social construct, associations with it came into existence. ... This belief eased their guilt and allowed for similar events to occur in the future. ...

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