 But can a people (its faith in an idealized American Creed notwithstanding) live and develop for over three hundred years simply by reacting? Are American Negroes simply the creation of white men, or have they at least helped to create themselves out...  New Perspectives in American Politics - Halaman 11diedit oleh - 1989 - 204 halamanPratinjau terbatas - Tentang buku ini
 | Lawrence W. Levine - 1978 - 546 halaman
...Ellison had responded similarly in his review of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: "can a people . . . live and develop for over three hundred years simply...have made a life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma?"101 The blues with its individualized tone, its transitional musical style, its inward-looking,... | |
 | Elmer P. Martin, Joanne Mitchell Martin - 1980 - 144 halaman
...necessary to validate blacks' capacities to adapt, remain strong, and survive? Ralph Ellison said that "men have made a way of life in caves and upon cliffs,...have made a life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma?"49 on the Black Family Studies such as Gutman's and Stack's are primarily aimed at the social... | |
 | Walter A. Jackson - 1994 - 476 halaman
...have they at least helped to create themselves out of what they found around them? Men have made a life in caves and upon cliffs, why cannot Negroes have made a life upon the horns of the white mans dilemma?" Ellison concluded with a cultural pluralist argument that "in Negro culture there is... | |
 | David R. Roediger - 1994 - 224 halaman
.... . ', Ellison asks, 'live and develop over three hundred years simply by reacting?' He continues: 'Men have made a way of life in caves and upon cliffs,...have made a life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma?'8 That way of life is missing in Two Nations, with Hacker's imagination failing especially... | |
 | Ben Keppel - 1995 - 332 halaman
...more primary pressures from the side of the dominant white majority." Ellison countered by asking: "Are American Negroes simply the creation of white...life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma?'"" In their eagerness to amass and present the evidence of what white society had done to Negroes —... | |
 | William M. Banks - 1996 - 378 halaman
...constraints. Despite racial oppression, blacks had themselves decided how to live their lives, he said. But can a people (its faith in an idealized American...have made a life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma?17 Starting in 1960 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worked toward a racially... | |
 | Michael Bibby - 1996 - 276 halaman
...55. In Shadow and Art (1964), Ralph Ellison responded to Myrdal's book by asking "can a people . . . live and develop for over three hundred years simply...a life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma?" Quoted in Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from... | |
 | James Seaton - 1996 - 296 halaman
...the vitality of the life created by "American Negroes," despite all the obstacles put in their path: Are American Negroes simply the creation of white...a life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma? ("An American Dilemma: A Review," 3i5-i6) When Irving Howe in i963 argued that Richard Wright's angry... | |
 | Leslie G. Carr - 1997 - 212 halaman
...can a penple tits faith in an idealized American Creed notwithstanding) live and develop for over 300 years simply by reacting? Are American Negroes simply...a life upon the horns of the White man's dilemma? tP. 94) Ellison then pointed out that Myrdal equated "American" culture with White culture excluding... | |
 | Nicholas Gebhardt - 2001 - 256 halaman
...white majority." Ellison's response is crucial for understanding the future analysis of slave ideology: But can a people (its faith in an idealized American...have made a life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma?96 The crux of the dilemma, for both Myrdal (and his followers) and for Ellison, was the psychological... | |
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