General response paper directions: your response papers are to be brief pieces—no longer than two pages—in which you explore your personal reaction to the week’s readings. The response papers need not...

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General response paper directions: your response papers are to be brief pieces—no longer than two pages—in which you explore your personal reaction to the week’s readings. The response papers need not be tightly structured around a central thesis, but you should use specific textual evidence to support and illustrate your ideas. Do not draw on outside sources; instead, offer your own interpretation of specific elements within the reading and provide insight on the overall significance you discover within the works.
In week three we discussed some of the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance; this week we look at several other African-American writers who published their work decades later. Looking at all these works, does there seem to have been any progress in racial relations in America? Focusing on one or two of this week’s writers, how do they approach race in ways that are distinct from the writers discussed in week three?


*Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to be Colored Me"




https://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf




*Richard Wright, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"




https://southinblackandwhite.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/the-man-who-was-almost-a-man.pdf




*Toni Morrison, "Recitatif"




https://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/english%206710/everyday%20use.pdf




*Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"




https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/1073/Morrison_recitatifessay.doc.pdf


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In this week, I learnt and gained knowledge about the conditions of the Afro-American natives known as the Negros in the early 90’s who lived in America. They were not properly accepted being colored and never got the deserve position in the society. As mentioned by Hurston, in “How It Feels to be Colored Me”, the Negros never got a desirable position in the society though being genuinely talented in several fields of art, culture and literature.
By this piece, I felt that a person becomes highly detached to the world and starts to consider oneself as a part of the universe who are on their own. I feel that neglect and racial prejudice make one bitter to the world especially when experienced from a tender age of 13, which is the time to play and enjoy life (Hurston).
The life of Zora too shows such attitude of her towards life, who felt even more colored when surrounded and neglected by the whites. According to...
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