That new type was to achieve both: raise race awareness for Blacks in the white population and emerge himself as a proud and self-determined being, who acknowledged his racial and historical background with pride. Two of the many African Americans who tried to overcome centuries of prejudice, segregation, denial and forgetfullness were Alain Locke and Aaron Douglas, both of whom stressed the central position art and culture were to have in helping the black community with defining themselves as Americans who were contributing their rich historical and cultural background to society. ... (Loc...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Honorable 54th Regiment The 54th regiment is honored for their bravery and attempt to bring about the best for their country, struggling through many barriers dealing with prejudice and discrimination, this regiment attacked and kept its strength to overcome their obstacles and become one of the first black regiment's to fight for the United States. ... This quote demonstrates the idea that there was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against the blacks, the fact that white individuals treated these black soldiers in a lowery manner, demonstrated how blacks felt hatred against...

• Word Count: 1546
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As an African American composing (and endeavoring to distribute) poetry in the United States just 60 or somewhere in the vicinity years after the end of the Civil War, a period when indications of prejudice-including explicit segregation, brutality, and even lynchings-were still widespread, Langston Hughes inescapably investigated such points as oppression and liberation in his work (Evans 2010). ... His writings united individuals of African ancestry and Africa over the globe to support pride in their ever changing black society. ... Understanding his work is understanding pride in the Africa...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I hope most people don't mean to be prejudice or racist but it seems that is how they were brought up. ... Nationalism creates pride in the people almost thinking they are better than the other nations. ... Nothing has happened yet so, no history of colonialism, racism, slave-trade, or prejudice. ... People with different faiths might get the sense of pride (which I try to get rid of from the elimination of nationalism) their religion is the best and everyone must follow it. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Blacks attending schools with whites still had to endure racial prejudices and misjudgments by much of the population. ... The men at the club could do no more to totally bash the dignity and pride that the guests had built up all their life. ... I am thinking that maybe they did this just to test his patience and pride. ...

• Word Count: 1491
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• Grade Level: High School

Although "he [hates] his family, [it is] because he knows that they are suffering and that he is powerless to help them," (13) his pride in his own self worth, is never more present then when he is around his family. ... Bigger does exactly what he was against, he obediently molded into the injustices of a prejudice society, sacrificing the value of individuality and self-pride to conform to an accepted black stereotype. ...

• Word Count: 1638
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Finally, Alvin Poussaint investigated the topics of Black suicide, Black sexuality, Black Power, and the proposition to white parents on how to raise their children free of prejudice. ... He emphasizes that social scientist have a responsibility for changing Black conditions, also he argues the significance of the ethnocentrism factor (the focus and pride in a persons bio-social identity). ...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some common themes did exist however, such as an interest in the roots of the African American experience in Africa and in the South, and a strong sense of racial pride and a desire for social and political equality. ... The black philosopher Alian Locke published his most talked about essay "The New Negro", in his essay he urged that "Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid." ...

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Langston Hughes was America's Jazz Poet, the chronicler of life in Harlem in the 1920s. Setting out to write about black Americans, Hughes created a body of work-poetry, fiction, journalism, essays, plays, and song lyrics. While decrying racism and the inequities it created for blacks and other mi...

• Word Count: 1295
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• Grade Level: High School

Through the relationship between black men and black women, Walker portrays the prejudice that black women have to face. ... Her pride and independence act as a catalyst for Celie and others on their fight for freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Prejudice is the conviction that all parts of each one race have attributes or capacities particular to that race, particularly to recognize it as mediocre or better than an alternate race or races, preference, segregation, or threat coordinated against somebody of an alternate race focused around the conviction that one's own race is unrivaled. ... (Science and Prejudice) The Reconstruction period started in 1865 when the North and South needed to rejoin after the common war to abolish subjection It finished in 1877. ...

• Word Count: 2190
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• Has Bibliography

When Margarite listens song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson's she prides for black people because they also can have all opportunities to reach their goals and to be the part of "the wonderful, beautiful Negro race" (156). ... She does not give up and "fights" with racist hiring policies in San Francisco to get her first real job as streetcar conductor "The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of ...

• Word Count: 1584
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Richard was alienated from his environment, even though he tried to distance himself from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the stereotypical southern black person. ... By teaming up on blacks like Pease and Reynolds did to Richard, whites are able to unite and find powering numbers, and in turn satisfy their human need for pride. ...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: High School

Walker's story is filled with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, physical abuse and verbal abuse, prejudice, the oppression of women, and hatred. ... She added: "Black women should not be sacrificed for Black men's pride. ...

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In his book, Dark Water: Voices From Within the Veil, Du Bois said, "I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back urging me on. ... Stand out amongst the crowd with passion and pride. ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ellison describes the coin bank as being a "piece of early Americana," a great use of diction to frame the historical context of the prejudices and struggles faced by African Americans from slavery and how they are still perceived. ... The way in which the society, the bank, and the individuals are fueled is through greed and personal pride. ...

• Word Count: 1967
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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. ... She juggles the importance of her own race and pride and struggle with that, with the option of being mistakenly considered white and gaining status and other such benefits in this way. ...

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