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African-American Literature Early Black Literature Research Proposal
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Subject:Literature
Topic:Big Black Good Man
Document Type:Research Proposal
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The resistance tactic of educating black youth is challenged and despite the fact that the boy has likely been told that this education will free him of prejudice, through proof of his intellect he is called back and told to keep the error to himself, so as not to overturn the apple cart. The idea that adopting the ideals and goals of whites, in this case education as resistance has proven, at least in this case to be ineffective as the boy is crushed by his awareness of the fault in the message of his grandmother and others about his power through education.
Both the Morrison and the Wright works demonstrate that social change, through the economy of legitimate society is the real nature of the oppression of blacks. There is a clear indication that though these messages have only limited connectivity to black identity, they mark a thematic source of both legitimate and illegitimate resistance, in the bold and subtle sense and attempt to illuminate the challenges of racism for the reader. The challenges of the system and the fact that racism is perpetuated by an economy of oppression demonstrate that each work is an attempt to demonstrate the pervasive inequality that goes far beyond identity and constitutional sentiment and represents the reality of black life, even today.
Works Cited
Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon, New York: Vintage, 2004.
Posnock, Ross, Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of Modern Intellectual. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Wright, Richard Native…
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Works Cited
Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon, New York: Vintage, 2004.
Posnock, Ross, Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of Modern Intellectual. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Wright, Richard Native Son, New York: Harper Perennial, 1998.
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