Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blue Dementia” is an example of what kind of poetry ?

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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?

A. Explain how African Americans could not learn standard English B. Make his written inaccessible to white audiences C. To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers D. Challenge American stereotypes about race...

Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane,” what is Hard Rock’s function in the prison ?

A. To help the other inmates escape. B. To win money by fighting. C. To do what the other inmates were afraid to do. D. To keep the Blacks and Whites separated....

What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem” ?

A. A child dying of SIDS. B. The stillborn death of a child. C. Abortion. D. A murdered child....

Sonia Sanchez’s “right on: white america” is protesting________________?

A. The extermination of Native Americans. B. That there is a Black America and a White America. C. Black on black violence. D. The fact that America still has a frontier mentality....

Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?

A. William Wells Brown B. Richard Wright C. Charles Chesnutt D. Booker T. Washington...