Ethnic Lit Final

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Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Custer Died for Your Sins

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Louise Erdrich

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The Red Convertible
Dear John Wayne

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N. Scott Momaday

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The Earth

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Sherman Alexie

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This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona
--> Smoke Signals

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• Nikki Giovanni

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Campus Racism 101
The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choices

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• Langston Hughes

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Theme for English B
Harlem [2] (Dream Deferred)
Ku Klux
The South
One-Way Ticket

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• Countee Cullen

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Incident

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• Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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Sympathy

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• Maya Angelou

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I know why the caged bird sings
Peckerwood Dentist & Momma’s Incredible Powers

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• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I have a dream

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• William Raspberry

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Handicap of Definition

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• Gwendolyn Brooks

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We Real Cool
The Boy Died in My Alley

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• Chaim Potok

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The chosen,
The Promise,
My name is Asher Lev

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• Alfred Uhry

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Driving Miss Daisy

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• Emma Lazarus

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best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty[1] in 1912.

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• Nathan Englander

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a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,

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• Philip Roth

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He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award.
Roth has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: his books have twice been awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured his best-known character, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other of Roth's novels.

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• Nash Candelaria

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The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne

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• Gary Soto

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Looking for Work

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• Richard Rodriguez

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Workers

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• Sandra Cisneros

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Mericans

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• Judiah Cofer

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American History

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• Amy Tan

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(explore mother-daughter relationships )
Rules of the Game
The Joy Luck Club

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• Gish Jen

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What Means Switch

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• Genny Lim

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Grandmother
Hold You See

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• Li-Young Lee

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Persimmons

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• Elizabeth Wong

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Cultural divorce

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Name four key African American authors

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• Nikki Giovanni
• Langston Hughes
• Maya Angelou
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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Who said: "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,but it can keep him from lynching me,and I think that is pretty important." ?

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Martin Luther King, Jr. 11/13/1962.

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Name four key Jewish-Lit authors.

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• Chaim Potok
• Phillip Roth
• Alfred Uhry
• Emma Lazarus

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Name four key Native American authors

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• Vine Delorias, Jr.
• Louise Erdrich
• N. Scott Momaday
• Sherman Alexie

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Name four key Hispanic lit authors

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• Nash Candelaria
• Gary Soto
• Richard Rodriguez
• Sandra Cisneros
• Judiah Cofer

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Define POETRY:

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the ARRANGEMENT of LINE in which FORM and CONTENT fuse, to suggest meanings beyond the literal meanings of words.

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Name (at least) five things to look for when reading literature.

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• STRUCTURE --what kind of literature?
• Characters, character development
• Symbols (in literature, these are not usually universal --e.g., convertible doesn't always stand for wealth, step-mother doesn't always stand for 'evil' etc.)
• Tone (rising action, falling action, climax)
• Setting, context
• Theme --the message the author is trying to communicate.
• "Foreshadowing" --a "warning bell" that something is about to happen --either good or ominous
• "Flashback" --return to a previous time that pertains to the

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Name the four elements of poetry:

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1) Rhyme -unites the sounds of words
- Free Verse poetry = no rhyme scheme
2) Rhyme Scheme -the pattern of the rhyme.
3) Meter -repitition of a rhythmic unit
4) Word Choice:
- Alliteration ("Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse")
- Parallelism
- Repetition
- Onomatopoeia --(sounds like what it means)
- Verbal images (word pictures)

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Toni Morrison

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The Bluest Eye"
First AA to win Pulitzer Prize.

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Alice Walker(

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"The Color Purple"

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Who said: ""All problems are human problems. We are more alike than we are different."" ?

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Maya Angelou

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Who said: "For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

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Maya Angelou

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He won more literary prizes than any other black writer of the 1920s.
Also a Renaissance Poet; older than Langston Hughes. Much of his poetry did not have to do with racial issues; he was a classically-trained poet.

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Countee Cullen

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"I'm not trying to tell people what to do or what to think or none of that. I'm not a leader. I'm not a guru. I'm just a poet looking at the world."

Often angry as a poet. During angry times.
Often "Urban, Edgy, Unapologetic"
Tone is very real. She takes something of an issue, not suger-coating it.
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By Nikki Giovanni (1943-

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"no person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies you the opportunity to grow."

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By Alice Walker(1944-
(Wrote "The Color Purple")

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Great Migration begins in ____

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1900 --Great Migration begins (or 1890?)
2 million blacks who moved from the rural South to the urban North

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HARLEM RENNAISSANCE

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HARLEM RENNAISSANCE--cultural movement of the 1920s & 1930s: it marked the first time mainstream [white] publishers & critics took AA literature, music, and art seriously. (in the South, AA weren't allowed to learn to read --it could cost you your life, or your feet, your hands --if you were caught reading).

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the voice of the Harlem Renaissance

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LANGSTON HUGHES1902-1967

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1955

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Rosa Parks

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1962

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peaceful resistance

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Jim Crow

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a de facto way of life in the South, and to some degree, in the North --separate schools, entrances, doctors, undertakers, water fountains… no interracial marriage; no …

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1865

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13th Amendment --abolished slavery

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1866

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KKK organized

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1868

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14th Amendment --Citizenship rights

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1875

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15th amendment --voting rights

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1909

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NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was organized.

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1964

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Civil Rights Act

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1965

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Voting Rights Act

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"a Master of Dialect" and a "Master of Classics"

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
* A "master of dialect": A warm day in Winter
* A "master of classics" --Dreams

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one of the leading American poets of his time and one of the lights of the Harlem Renaissance

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Countee Cullen