Assignment task: The point here is to break down or examine something with more detail, example, and explanation.
1. Discuss some of the "selfs" that June Jordan speaks to in her "Where is the Love Speech".
2. How is Black motherhood compromised in some of the stories and/or poems (specific examples required)?
3. Explain the significance (or metaphor) of the rat in the excerpt on Native Son by Richard Wright?
4. Explain the 5 ways Ida B. Wells-Barnett suggested individuals could "to prevent lynching, to thwart anarchy and promote law and order throughout our land?"
5. What realities (especially as an older black woman) does the main character in "It's Not All Downhill From Here" by Terry McMillan reflect on?
6. How did the administration let down the students in John Edgar Wideman's Brothers & Keepers?
7. Discuss the two different strategies laid out by Booker T. Washington, David Walker (and others) with relation to the passive approach or the active approach or the practical versus philosophical approach.