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The image of death in The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

Throughout the tradition of African American poetry, an over arching theme that reoccurs throughout many poems, as seen in The Vintage Book of African American Poetry is death. Death has been a source of protest, pride, action, rights, struggles...

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Who's your sociologist?

Who's your sociologist?The sociologist I am writing about is called William Edward Burghardt Du Bois or Web Du Bois. Web is an African American born on February 23, 1868, in Barrington, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 95, on August 27, 1963, in...

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The history of African American drama

African American DramaWhere it all beganIt is known that during the Harlem Renaissance many things were brought to light among African Americans. During that time (1918-37), the Harlem Renaissance was the blossoming of African American Culture...

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Jean Michel Basquia

Jean Michel Basquiat was an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, 1960 (Henry, 2005). With a HaitianAmerican father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat's diverse cultural heritage and his mother desire to show him art since...

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