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Edward Jones/The Known World
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A 3 page book review, which focuses on ethical issues pertaining to slavery. Contemporary society’s perspective of this institution is understood to be that slavery is purely evil. In his novel The Known World, Edward Jones examines a little known fact of Southern antebellum society, which is that freed blacks were often slaveholders themselves, and the novel addresses the complex question of whether black slave owners differed in any appreciably way from their white counterparts. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khejknw.rtf

Ellison and Bambara/Lessons for Minorities
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A 5 page essay that compares and contrasts Ellison's "Battle Royal" and Toni Cade Bambara's story "The Lesson." In these narratives, young African Americans receive a complicated lesson in American culture, lessons that will make the protagonists evaluate who they are and the position that they occupy in the society at large, and – most of all – whether or not they will accept this position as it is given. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khelbam.rtf

Ellison's Invisible Man
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Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man is not really invisible, as he explains in the prologue: 'I am a man of substance, of flesh and bones, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind'. This 5 page paper argues that the story tells of the process used by one man to first recognize then reject the occurrences of his life that are linked to the fundamental racism of American society. It is through this process that he forms his own identity. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTINVBLE.wps

Ellison’s Invisible Man and Blindness
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A 10 page paper which examines the theme of blindness in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAbiii.rtf

Enslaved & White Women/Ar'n't I a Woman?
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A 3 page essay that analyzes the web of social attitudes and interactions that served to rationalize both racial and sexual discrimination in the antebellum era. The writer argues that black and white womanhood had an interdependent relationship that served to define the role of each in society. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khbwwom.rtf

Enslavement in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”
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A 3 page paper which examines the symbolic and obvious presence of enslavement in Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAtnislv.rtf

Ernest Gaines’ “A Gathering of Old Men”
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This 5 page report discusses Ernest Gaines’ A Gathering of Old Men, originally published in 1983, and allows the reader to hear from a number of perspectives and voices about what the experience of being African American in the South has meant to individual old (black) men. The story is about 15 old men of secluded parish of Louisiana in the 1970s. They come together as the result of the brutal killing of Beau Bouton. Each goes to the sheriff, 12-gauge shotgun in hand, and confesses to the murder and the reader learns of each of their very private, although connected, stories as they claim responsibility for Bouton’s death. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
Filename: BWoldmen.rtf

Essays by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
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A 5 page paper which discusses and compares Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" and Langston Hughes' essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAzrhugh.rtf

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