In five pages Du Bois's concepts of culture and black art are applied to an analysis of 'Lullaby' by Silko. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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have been an inherent part of the development of the USA since the days of slavery. Bibliography lists 1 source. JLDuBois.wps "Souls of Black Folks" by W.E.B. du
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It could be said that the
United States is a nation which consists of two opposing and contradictory elements: on the one hand, the countrys political history demonstrates its capacity to celebrate liberty, independence and the
freedom of the individual, as exemplified in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and on the other hand the slavery era demonstrates that, in the past at least, America
has also had the capability to demonstrate almost incomprehensible inhumanity to others.
In order to resolve this dichotomy, perhaps it is useful to look at the cultural mindset which not
only permitted slavery, but found it acceptable, and the economic reasons which perpetrated the condition for so long. To the modern way of thinking, it seems unbelievable that the concept
that one human being can own another should ever have been given credibility; however, when slaves were first brought to the newly-formed American colonies, the emphasis was on the need
to wrest a living from the land by any means possible, and there was an element of deliberate blindness with regard to the notion that slaves might come from a