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. ... This central theme of the triumph of good over evil is no doubt the source of the book' s great success. ... Although her response sometimes varies, she most frequently answers, "Remember, the movie is not the book" ("The Color Purple: The Book and the Movie"). ... The book is composed of letters Celie writes to God, but the movie doesn't show this. ... She added: "Black women should not be sacrificed for Black ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

When racism tried to take his pride and dignity, he became more determined to make sure society recognized his achievements. ... He felt that through science, he could dispel the irrational prejudices and ignorance that prevented racial equality. ... His views clashed with Booker T. ... Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, criticizing Booker, claiming that his ideas would lead to a perpetuation of oppression instead of freeing the black people from it. Du Bois criticism lead to a branching out of the black civil rights movement, Booker's conservative followers, and a radical fol...

• Word Count: 654
• Approx Pages: 3
• 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. ... John Rawls book The Laws of Peoples; he describes the basic features of these peoples. ... 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

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." ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Langston learned to endure the hardships of prejudice without surrendering his dignity or pride. ... In 1926 Hughes's first book, The Weary Blues, was published to a chorus of praise from black and white reviewers alike. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... In his book Du Bois says, "A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers But say to a people: "The one virtue is to be white," and the people rush to the inevitable conclusion, "Kill the 'nigger'!... Stand out amongst the crowd with passion and pride. ...

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

As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. ... So for a society who prides herself on the basis of freedom, and who has based its moral code off of Judeo-Christian law which claims that all men are created equal; how could we possibly com...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26

On the other hand it is a good example for people; because they can take the advice from this book and learn how fight all these troubles that life has created. ... 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 year...

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

Although black is said to have good and positive attributes, rust represents the negative perception of their character and is reinforced numerous times throughout the book. ... Later in the book IM says, "If only I knew who it was.... 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. ... " Since the beginning of the book, IM wishes not to relive the past because he is ashamed, yet Wheatstraw in...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8

A book can be the window to a whole new world. ... Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... An argument over gambling with a man named West Indian Archie sent Malcom out of town, if he had stayed one or both of the men could have lost not only their pride but also their lives. ...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School