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Bloodlines & Race
Responding to Locke's Conceptions of Race
Alain Leroy Locke was a man of great influence and great genius. Locke was a primary contributor and in some ways, mastermind, behind the Harlem Renaissance, an age in the early decades of 20th century American history. Locke was African-American; his achievements and contributions to society were often marked by his race whether he was working in direct support of African-American causes/issues, or not. Alain Locke was one of the first non-whites to attend and graduate from Harvard University early in the 20th century. He graduated from Harvard with two degrees. He was the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, attended distinguished universities in Europe, was Phi Beta Kappa, and was a long time professor at the historically black university, Howard University in Maryland. Locke is regarded as one of the most revered thinkers, writers, and scholars in African-American...
One of his many famous pieces of writing, "The Theoretical and Scientific Conceptions of Race," is the focus of this paper. The paper will interrogate the text in search of answers to questions regarding Locke's connections among class, race, science, and general perceptions.
Locke contended that the issue of race and the issue of class are closely related. He argues that they are in fact so related, that they are less distinct separate issues and rather two sides of the same coin of tensions. He writes that when considering the context within which he establishes in the writing for the reader to consider his ideas, one cannot consider race without considering class and vice versa.
So we must constantly stress the analogy between race issues and class problems or race problems and class problems, race feelings and class feelings, as you will regard them as really of the same kind and different only in degree and…
Bloodlines and Racism. Discuss Spriro, Defending the Master Race The book Defending the Master Race by Madison Grant viewed history through an entirely racial lens. Rather than conceptualizing history as a series of clashes between different civilizations or class struggles, Grant characterized history as a series of divisive exchanges between persons of different 'racial' status. What is so interesting from a modern perspective is that many of the 'races' perceived by the
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Bloodline collection of five short stories, Bloodline depicts the struggles of day-to-day African-American life in the South. With unique literary devices and keen emotional insight, Author Ernest J. Gaines uses the first person perspective in each tale to make the narratives exceptionally poignant and to bring the characters alive. In fact, two of the tales are told from the perspective of young boys, Gaines captures their innocence and their unwitting