In "Shades of Black" by Mary Mebane and "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston, the authors describe factors that influence attitudes about race, color, and class. ... According to Mebane's essay, having extremely dark skin was seen as a heavy burden to bear. ... In Hurston's essay everyone in the town was considered equal because the town was entirely black so she did not have to deal with inferiority or superiority issues(71). ... By reading the essays written by Mary Mebane and Zora Neale Hurston, one can identify and address several factors that form the basis ...

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Two writers were on the front lines of this movement, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison. ... Both Hurston and Ellison did this beautifully, in that their stories were not forceful nor preachy, but merely simple, candid tales of the lives of two ordinary African-Americans. ... By using these two themes, both Hurston and Ellison took a dramatic leap of faith. ... Neither Hurston nor Ellison hid any part of their culture to be politically correct; this fact is especially visible in the authors use of diction in their novels. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston employ...

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Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. ... Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" embodies some aspects that are found in Walker's and Marshall's essays. ... It is essential to first analyze Walker's and Marshall's essays through each of the themes of identity, independence, and inspiration, respectively. ... They both ref...

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African-Americans produced an abundance of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay during this time period. ... Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. ... Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as to be the most important African American writer who wrote before World War II. ...

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Hughes ended his essay by saying that, "we build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.... Zora Neale Hurston claims that this lack of interest and gap in the national literature and information is causing a strain on world affairs. ...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, etc. and they were shipped in the southern area of North America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida). The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the Ame...

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