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African American Epic Song And Grimk
5,385 wordsThe Introduction to The Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimk by Carolivia Herron The Angelina Weld Grimk Collection at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center of Howard University includes a note in Grimk's hand that lists the titles of a projected collection of poetry. The list begins with the poem "An Epitaph", which depicts the futility and despair of the narrator who longs first for joy, then for love, and is answered with. pain and death. The poem is presented in three stanzas, the last of w...
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Few Black Poets
675 words[The interview dates from April 1989.] Komunyakaa Historically, the African American has had to survive by his or her sheer nerve and wit, and it often seems as if we have been forced to create everything out of nothing. Music kept us closer to the essence of ourselves. Thus, there is little wonder that the drum was outlawed in certain slave-owning locales. The drum was a threat because it articulated cultural unity and communication. But we of course began to clap our hands and stomp our feet t...
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Zora Neale Hurston
2,051 wordsZora Neale Hurston was an astounding Afro-American author who was recognized not for being the first Afro-American writer, but rather for her ability to bring forth her cultural language and imagery. If not for Zora's pioneering effort as a female black writer, the world of modern literature would have never seen the cultural insights of the African American culture in such a candid way. Zora's date of birth is said to be in January of 1891, however her actual date of birth is debated today due ...
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Irish And African American Immigrant Experiences
1,800 wordsMidterm Essay #2: Topic #2 Irish and African Americans In the period of vast immigration into the United States and within it, the Irish and African Americans are very closely related in their experiences as immigrants and their experiences during and after their immigration. Their origins, flows, economic incorporation in the United States, settlement and socio-political adaptation was a little different but it had some similarities. Both groups were pushed and pulled out of their native lands ...
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Sister Souljah
704 wordsMany people have said and think Sister Souljah is a racist. She has made a statement to let people know she is not a racist. She considers herself of being a black sister with an unselfish heart and wants to be heard and will be heard. Sister Souljah has impacted and affected our society today. To some people she is a threat and some people admire her work, thoughts, and music. She has stated 'I am mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically, intellectually, and academically developed and acu...
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Interracial Marriages And Biracial Children
2,200 wordsTania ManzanaresRace and Ethnic 12-4-97 Biracial Children and Interracial Marriages For my tern paper I'd like to discuss Interracial marriages and Biracial children: Their feelings toward discrimination because of their mixed blood. My reason for going into research on this particular subject is because I'd like to understand the feelings of others who are in interracial marriages and have children whom are biracial. I am a biracial child who can relate to this topic, my personal feelings will ...
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Maya Angelou
1,405 wordsMaya Angelou is one of the most influential and talented African American writers of our modern day. Those who read Angelou's works should not pass the thought of where her influence came from. Maya Angelou's work has been heavily affected by the era in which she began to write. The fifties and sixties were a tumultuous time for most African-Americans in the US. The civil-rights movement, led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League, Ma...
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Poem From Walker's First Collection
2,848 wordsDonna All ego Margaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents, the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister and an educator, and Marion Dozier Walker, a music teacher, encouraged her to read poetry and philosophy from an early age. Walker completed her high school education at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, where her family had moved in 1925. She went on to attend New Orleans University (now Dillard University) for two years. Then, after ...
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Dubois And Booker T Washington
3,707 wordsIntroduction William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom. A harbinger of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism, he died in self-imposed exile in his home away from home with his ancestors of a glorious past-Africa. Labeled as a 'radical,' he was ignored by those who hoped that his massive contributions would be buried along side of him. But, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, 'history ca...
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Great Minds Of The Harlem Renaissance
1,646 words'Wedding Band' by Alice Childress is a story of a love / hate interracial relationship between two lovers in the south. The play is set in South Carolina in 1918. 'Wedding Band' truly captures the essence of the time and place in which the play was set in. That era (1915-1931) is one of the most significant in the history of this young nation. The decade of the 1920's is often characterized as a period of American prosperity and optimism. It was the 'Roaring Twenties,' the decade of the bath tub...
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Reed's Mumbo Jumbo
3,731 wordsREADING MUMBO JUMBO Mumbo Jumbo is a novel about writing itself - not only in the figurative sense of the postmodern, elf-reflexive text but also in a literal sense... [It] is both a book about texts and a book of texts, a composite narrative of subtexts, pretexts, post texts, and narratives within narratives. It is both a definition of afro American culture and its deflation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author of The Signifying Monkey Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's third novel and by many critics, it...
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Indian And Black In Guyana And Trinidad
4,023 wordsCaribbean history comprises of a long and tumultuous colonial past. Guyana and Trinidad both have a rich cultural past, however, it is a history that has been marred by it's own people its adopted natives. Much of both countries' history has been soiled: First by the race issues created by the Europeans then secondly by petty jealousies each race, East Indian and African, had towards each other. But let my point about the ethnic divide be put with more focus: the two races are the two main group...
