In his essay “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” James Baldwin argued that novels like Richard Wright’s Native Son
a. failed to recognize that class conflict, not racial discrimination, was the true source of blacks’ misery.
b. depicted the true state of degradation to which white oppression had reduced black society.
c. ignored the richness of black cultural life and the individual’s capacity to grow beyond racial identity.
d. provided a much richer and more accurate portrayal of black culture than the misguided works of culturalist sociologists.
c. ignored the richness of black cultural life and the individual’s capacity to grow beyond racial identity.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. Rachel Carson b. Betty Ford c. Simone de Beauvoir d. Kathleen Windsor e. Betty Friedan
The definition of the term polis is city-state.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
a. focused on interracial conflict and cooperation. b. glorified the bourgeois values of the black middle class. c. praised the authenticity of rural black culture. d. celebrated the pleasures of Harlem nightlife.