General response paper directions: your response papers are to be brief pieces—no longer than two pages—in which you explore your personal reaction to the week’s readings. The response papers need not be tightly structured around a central thesis, but you should use specific textual evidence to support and illustrate your ideas. Do not draw on outside sources; instead, offer your own interpretation of specific elements within the reading and provide insight on the overall significance you discover within the works.
In week three we discussed some of the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance; this week we look at several other African-American writers who published their work decades later. Looking at all these works, does there seem to have been any progress in racial relations in America? Focusing on one or two of this week’s writers, how do they approach race in ways that are distinct from the writers discussed in week three?
*Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to be Colored Me"
https://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf
*Richard Wright, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"
https://southinblackandwhite.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/the-man-who-was-almost-a-man.pdf
*Toni Morrison, "Recitatif"
https://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/english%206710/everyday%20use.pdf
*Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/1073/Morrison_recitatifessay.doc.pdf