Effects of racism

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To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination... After the racist statues are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Topic

Effects of racism Black experience

Author

Michael Harrington

Source

The Other America

Genre

Sociology Political literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 4.

Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember.

Countee Cullen

Incident

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Topic

Effects of racism Racism Black experience

Author

Countee Cullen

Source

Incident

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Cullen, Countee. "Incident." Color. Harper & Brothers, 1925, I. 5.

Current Citation

Cullen, Countee. "Incident." Countee Cullen: Collected Poems, edited by Major Jackson. Library of America, 2013, I. 5.

My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.

James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

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Effects of racism Black experience

Author

James Baldwin

Source

Notes of a Native Son

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Baldwin, James. "Me and My House." Harper's Magazine, Nov. 1955.

Current Citation

Baldwin, James. "Notes of a Native Son." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.