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How the Tenets of Black Power and the Black Liberation Movement find expression in the Gang Girls A Rangerette

The Black Panther Party has a Self-Defense “10-Point Program”. The first point states that the Black Panther Party wants freedom and the power to determine the destiny of their black community. The second point states that the Black Panther Party wants full employment for its people. The third point states that the Black Panther Party wants an end to robbery by capitalists of their black community. The fourth point states the Black Panther Party wants decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings., The fifth point states that the Black Panther Party wants education for their people that exposes the nature of their society and that teaches them their history. The sixth point states that the Black Panther Party wants Black men exempted from military service. The seventh point states that the Black Panther Party wants an end to police brutality and the murder of black people. The eighth point states that the Black Panther Party wants freedom for all black men held in federal, state,...
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Representations of "the New Negro" in Relation the Poem America

  In "The New Negro — What Is He?" Philip Randolph’s and Chandler Owen’s representation of “the New Negro” in politics is, “The New Negro demands political equality.” (Randolph and Owen, 40). This quote shows Randolph’s and Owen’s representation of “the New Negro” in politics. Randolph and Owen claim that “the New Negro” must know the difference between selective and elective representation. When “the New Negro” vote for the Democratic or Republican party, they are exercising their right to elect their representative. Randolph and Owen believe that the person who selects political representatives controls the representative. I think that this means Randolph and Owen are accepting that someone other than “the New Negro” chooses the representatives aknowledging that their is a gap in political power between “the New Negro” and that person.  Randolph’s and Owen’s representation of “the New Negro” in economics is, “as a worker, demands the full product of his toil.” (Randolph and...
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Audience in African American Literature

     The writer's audience in literature can be telling especially when taking in account historical context in African American literature. Writers can change their story to appeal to their desired audience and an example could be when comparing and contrasting Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed and  Booker T. Washington in Up From Slavery . Jacobs tried to appeal to people who did not know the horrors in slavery especially in the North. She did this by describing her positive memories of slavery through the eyes of a child, but then describing her true thoughts on slavery as a victim of rape. Booker T. Washington in Up From Slavery tried to appeal to Caucasian people to try to integrate African American people into society. He did this by describing relatively tame parts of slavery. Both accounts have truth, but what parts of the story left in to appeal to their desired audience could have changed the way the narratives ...
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