Essay Instructions:
1.
Read the selections in your textbook: Frederick Douglass' "Appendix" (448-452), Alain Locke's "The New Negro" (984), Amiri Baraka's "The Dutchman" (1946), and Alice Walker's The Color Purple (2454).
2.
Locate AND READ the following articles from the TCC Database; ifI told you which database that would take away from the assignment! I have, however, provided the author's and titles:
a.
A. James Wohlpart's "Privatized Sentiment and the Institution of Christianity: Douglass's Ethical Stance in the Narrative"
b.
Clarence E. Walker's "The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond"
c.
Carole Hamilton's "A discussion of Dutchman"
d.
Linda Selzer's "Race and domesticity in The Color Purple.
3.
Write the MLA citation correctly for your textbook (all you need is a general citation and it should only be listed ONCE). Your textbook is an anthology and it should be cited as such. Next, complete the correct MLA citation for the four articles listed above. Once you have cited them all correctly, you would attach a Works Cited page as these are the sources you will use to answer the four questions.
4.
Attached are four questions related to the works in the textbook and the articles. You will notice the articles relate to the works (thus primary and secondary). Answer each of the four questions and you will use both your textbook and the articles as support for your answers.
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Once completed, here is what you tum in to me: The TYPED responses to the four questions (double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman), and the Works Cited will be your last page. Length: As of now, you should know the length at which you should answer
. essay questions. Considering you are taking this horne, and it requires outside research, you determine your own length. At the same time, based on the tests you have taken in class, you know what constitutes a full 25 points (3-4 sentence responses will probably earn you 0-5 points); gauge yourself based on this.
These are the 4 topics
1.
Appealing to a white Christian audience, many early African American writers used religious ideology to convince their audiences of the inhumanity and injustice of slavery. How does Frederick Douglass use Christian principles as a tool ofpersuasion in the "Appendix?"What clarification does Douglass provide in the "Appendix" ofhis views about the relation of religion and slavery?
2.
What does Alain Locke mean by the "New" Negro? How does this figure differ from the "old" Negro? To what extent does this figure correspond to an actual social type, and to what extent might it be an idealization? What might Locke's pUlpose be in idealizing the new Negro?
3. Amiri BarakaiLeRoi Jones is calling for something of a revolution in this play. He is showing us that Clay's attempt to be "white" is futile and that he will never be received into "white" society. It is a dark view ofthe dominant culture and how that culture represses minorities in particular African Americans. The play also features a group of co-conspirators who can't be ignored; they are essential to the play's meaning in that they help push Clay's body off the train. This is quite an indictment of white society. And finally, neither ofthe two characters are what they appear to be. Clay cannot hide his "blackness" and ultimately his anger no matter what he does. Sadly, Lula knows how to exploit his weakness and uses her sexuality to manipulate and expose Clay's hidden hatred. These are complex and disturbing characters to say the least; explain how both Lula and Clay are complex characters. Be specific.
4. In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, the protagonist sees sex as a form of violence
committed against her or at best, an uninspiring obligation to her husband. That is, until
she meets a very inspiring woman named Shug. Shug defines "virginity" as an emotional
state, rather than physical: if you haven't enjoyed sex, you're still a virgin. Shug affirms
the goodness of sex by stating definitively that God created sex and wants humans to
enjoy it. Although sex is a normal, everyday thing to most characters in this novel, Shug
suggests that it transcends the everyday and becomes something sacred and divine.
Although Celie has already had several children and two sexual partners, when she meets
Shug, she is indeed a virgin. Discuss this sexual paradox as it relates to Celie's
sexuality.
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References:
Works Cited
Gates, Henry L. And Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton Anthology of African-American
Literature, 2nd Ed. New York: Norton, 2004.
Hamilton, Carole. "Dutchman: Baraka's Concept of the Revolutionary Theatre." Drama
for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. pp. 228-235.
Selzer, Linda. "Race and Domesticity in the Color Purple." African-American Review,
Vol. 29, No. 1 (spring 1995): pp. 67-82.
Walker, Clarence E. "The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond."
African-American Review, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter, 1992): pp. 675-682.
Wohlpart, a. James. "Privatized Sentiment and the Institution of Christianity: Douglass's
Ethical Stance in the Narrative." American Transcendental Quarterly 9, No. 3 (September 1995): pp. 181-94.
