Assignment:
Question 1 Analyze one to two poems from one of this week's poets (Brooks, Hayden, or Walker). What do you feel their attitude toward the African-American community is? What are their fears/concerns and dreams for the future as they appear in their poetry?
200 word minimum
Question 2 What is the precept of inferiority as Leon Higgenbotham explains it? How does at least one author (poetry or political writing) handle/confront this in their work?
200 word minimum
Question 3 What aspects of African-American culture does Hayes indicate are apparent in African-American artistic expressions?
Question 4 Respond to Wright's "Blueprint for Negro Writing." What do you think of his descriptions and instructions?Racial Politics and
Readings:
Presumptions of the American Legal Process
By A. Leon Higginbotham, JR.
2. A Turbulent Voyage Readings in African American Studies Third Edition
By Floyed W. Hayes