Elmo's World

Tashi and Celie are both trapped by the traditions of their cultures. While Celie is crushed by the weight of a fundamental Bible, Tashi ha...

Celie plays a traditional role of a housewife through most of what we've read so far. She complies with her husband's requests, tho...

J. is one of two African Americans in a very awkward ceremony to commemorate John Henry, a famous black folk hero. He is a New York journali...

Walter's decision was by no means an easy choice. Obviously living in an all-white neighborhood would have its social consequences, but ...

A Veil divides the world of the white from the world of the black. The Veil divides more than color; it splits the varying degrees of accep...

My stagnant ethics are pretty basic. Don't intentionally hurt people. Don't waste. These are things that my parents have taught me ...

Booker T. Washington proposes that the only way for any change to take place in the South is for everyone to stay put and try to live full a...