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When, therefore, one speaks of Afro-American literature, one speaks about the literary expressions of the spiritual and emotional experiences of the people whose condition I have just described. Like all great art, literature reflects the historical content of a given age. As a pedagogical tool, it is nothing more than another means of trying to cognize the nature of physical and emotional reality. As such, Afro-American literature is simply the reflector of the life of Afro-American peoples, which shows us the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they...
What then is Afro-American Literature? To begin, it is a manifestation of the ethnic and emotional consciousness of Afro-American peoples. Our aesthetic concern is about a particular kind of man, the Afro-American man and woman, who have emerged under particular historical circumstances and whose aesthetic sensibilities were fashioned by a particular geography, a particular social setting and a particular type of economic arrangement...
While the calumnies heaped on the American government by Mexican leadership have become almost an annual ritual, the United States has only recently begun to take the Mexican charges seriously. American harshness toward Mexico in public actually masks division within the Carter ad-powerful Mexico, whose threats now have a more ominous ring than they did five short years...
...half-mile-long fence at El Paso, which would only have diverted immigrants to the other 1993 miles of unfenced border, was more an instance of window-dressing than of a sincere attempt to slow unlawful migration of impoverished Mexicans. INS Commissioner Leonel Castillo, whose grandparents were Mexican immigrants, has instituted policies more sympathetic to the plight of the immigrant. Not only has he reduced to half the personnel working to seize Mexicans living illegally in the United States, he has also upgraded the detention centers where illegal immigrants are housed before being shipped back to Mexico. Carter...
...mildly surprising. Susuma Shingu's well-designed three-part windmill will link the street and tunnel through a large light shaft. As the mill revolves and dips in the winds, hammers will strike chimes which hang inside the station, creating a soothing audio-visual experience. But Christopher Janney, whose project "Soundstair" creates nothing but confusion at MIT, has also been unleashed in the station. Although Janney insists his intricate sound system presented only as a drawing will be coordinated with Shingu's chimes, his "sonic gates, soundstairs and sound central" all emit noises as one moves through the station. Janney...