Write a 4-6 page essay in which you compare the “personalities” of Jazz’s narrator and Love’s L.
Jazz and Love offer first-person narrators with highly personal voices, but what are the similarities and differences between the narrators in those two novels of Morrison?
(use evidence to support/claim)
How the civil war effected racial equality and its effects in todays society:Discuss?
Fred Hampton Research paper
Identify and explain a theme or recurring idea that comes from studying Fred Hampton. What did his life/actions teach the American public.
1: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey were the three preeminent black leaders of the late 19th and early 20th century.discuss their origins, ascensions, philosophies, and conflicts.
2. Discuss the writers of the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances. How were they funded? Highlight the major figures and differing philosophies.
3.Discuss the relationship between the communist party and the struggle for civil rights in the United States. You should explain the significance of the Scottsboro Boys, the Red Scare, etc. explain why the communist party fell out of favor.
4. Highlight some of the key women involved in the traditional Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. How did they deal with both racism and sexism?
Source: Darlene Clark Hine, William Hine, and Stanley Harrold, African Americans A Concise History, 5th edition (Pearson, 2013) (Hereinafter referred to as “Hine”)
Analyze a document from pages 145-203 of Nancy Clark and William Worger, South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid. Carefully choose one of the documents to analyze. This assignment will provide an opportunity to explore the the racial system of apartheid and other aspects of race relations in modern South Africa in greater depth than can be obtained from other required readings.
Read pages 1-144 of Clark and Worger (especially Chapters 3-5) to gain an in-depth understanding of what the racial system of apartheid was and how and why it was constructed and dismantled. Then select one of the documents to analyze.
This paper should use the document analysis to develop a deeper understanding of apartheid. As you read and take notes, be sure to pay attention to the following questions:
What was the racial system know as apartheid and how and why was it constructed?
Analyze the document by investigating the following questions: Who created the document? Why was the document created? What was the document’s intended audience? What type of document is it? When was the document created? You may choose to make reference to other documents in the Clark and Worger volume if they offer a useful perspective on your document.
How does the document enhance my understanding of apartheid?
As a result, you are well equipped to make use of primary, secondary, and lecture sources, and to take into account the socio-cultural positioning of Equiano, Douglass, Walker, and de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (for example, three are men; only one is African born; an amanuensis is employed in at least one instance; etc.), in responding to the following:
The Question:
Can you marshal all of the sources to explain, by way of a central argument or, how the experiences of slavery, resistance, and emancipation impacted processes of self-identification for these authors? You may consider “identity” in relation to gender, place of origin, membership in the African diaspora, or some other axis of community/belonging. Be sure to also take into consideration these authors’ distinct sociopolitical contexts.
The Question
Analyze two or three examples of cultural, national, or transnationalresponses/solutions to the challenges faced by these populations from the late nineteenth through the first third of the twentieth century.
Make sure that your answer engages with ALL of the required reading (Gomez, Jones, Jacques-Garvey, Lovelace, Watkins-Owens), as well as incorporates at least one of the two documentaries, Against the Odds or Ilê Aiyê .
What major features characterized Ibo culture before the Europeans came?
What changes and cultural conflicts were created by the introduction of Christian missionaries and other Western influences into Ibo villages?
What seems to have been the net impact of the coming of the Europeans on Ibo culture?
1. Historians, when analyzing black history, often focus on the psychological effects of slavery and racism on black people, but what does the narrative of Frederick Douglass reveal about the negative psychological effects of absolute power on the white slave master, give analysis with examples on his shocking observations of the transformation of his masters?
2. Frederick Douglass notes his mental evolution of going from a boy to a slave and then from a slave to a man. By using examples give analysis to his process of becoming enslaved and then finding freedom, noting specifically when he became free?
3. As a house slave Douglass and his aunt were treated very differently. Describe the gendered difference in the master-slave relationship Frederick Douglass’ aunt had with the master as an attractive female house slave, and that of Frederick Douglass and his mistress when he moved to the city. What are the similarities and what are the major differences and what does that tell us about the unique trauma enslaved women had to endure?
4. What are two things about this narrative that shocked you emotionally and why?
5. Why does Frederick Douglass withhold the names of the slave masters and the white people that abused him despite writing this narrative as a free man and what does that say about the emotional power of fear is it perhaps reminiscent of post-traumatic stress syndrome?
1. Paragraphs #1, #2, and #3. Dr. King explains why he is in Birmingham. He goes on to state that he does not consider himself to be an “outside agitator.” How does he counter the “outside agitator” viewpoint held by the Birmingham clergy?
2. The Birmingham clergy claimed that the demonstrations in the city were “unwise and untimely.” In Paragraphs #5 and #6, Dr. King responded to this claim. What did he say to the clergy? What did you think of his response?
3. In paragraphs #7 and #8, Dr. King discusses the difference between “just” and “unjust” laws. What is his view?
4. Paragraph #9. Why is Dr. King “disappointed with the white moderate?”
5. Paragraphs #10 and #11. What are the two opposing forces that Dr. King stands in the middle of in the Negro community? Explain his point.
6. Paragraphs #12 and #13. Why do you think Dr. King was “disappointed in the white church”?
7. Paragraph #14. How did Dr. King respond to the clergymen’s belief that the Birmingham police department maintained “order” and “prevented violence”?
8. Last paragraph. Who, according to Dr. King, are the real “heroes” in the American South and why?
9. Detail your impression of this Birmingham letter by Dr. King. Did it have any lasting affect on you after reading it?
