is known to be the first published African American writer and possibly one of the youngest for being only 18.  Her poems do not directly attack or tackle slavery and racism but they are indirectly suggested and may be considered as the first statements of an African American regarding such issues.  The impact of her poetry and the display of literacy had become a challenge to those propagating slavery. 


 


1) “On Being Brought from Africa to America” – This poem glorifies Christianity as a religion of freedom and equality but has hints of critiquing racism by how it said Some view our sable race with scornful eye/Their colour is a diabolic die.”/ Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain/May be refin’d, and join the’ angelic train


 


2) The poem and letter to General Washington – An impressive show of education and literacy in the part of an African American writer that some critics are led to refuse to believe that this is not Wheatley’s work. 


 


3) Liberty and Peace and America -  does not directly attack slavery but she has glorified freedom. 


 


4) To Samson Occom – Where  makes the most assertive statement against slavery. 


 


 believes that Racism is a “scholarly pursuit” and conditioned by Education in itself.  To her, African American literature is taught as a means of social tolerance and not seriously as a text in itself.  Her novels always speak of the problems that plague African Americans and bringing awareness to such conflicts (rather solving them). 


 


1) Beloved – The novel details the life of Sethe, a black female slave.


 


2) The Bluest Eye – The novel is about embracing and accepting Black identity and the tragedy that awaits when one refuses to accept one’s race and favours another. 


 


3) Jazz – The novel indirectly tackles racism by putting it subtly and suggesting through hints thus proving that the pervasive nature of racism does not have to be visible but it may take place within the invisible cracks.


 


4) Song of Solomon – The novel documents the experience of an African American family and makes relevant the past struggles of African American South to the 20th century.    


 


5) Tar Baby – The novel is a discourse on the Black American female’s identity and accepting prejudices by turning them into strengths while also


 


 



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