Post your 2 annotations here. Due by Friday. See "Race in America" section in AP English in order to download and read articles. 150 words each response.
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Sophia Munoz
12/1/2014 11:25:45 pm
"He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man."- pg. 14
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Ms. M
12/3/2014 03:32:15 pm
This is one of three and should be posted in the Ex-Colored Man quote section.
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Sophia M
12/7/2014 11:24:20 pm
Sorry!
Torin C.
12/3/2014 09:19:08 pm
1. Barnhart, Bruce. “Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” African American Review. Fall 2006. BNET. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_40/ai_n18630055?tag=rbxcra.2.a.4. 10 December 2009.
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Joshua K.
12/3/2014 09:48:14 pm
“The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American Racial Identity” by John Sheehy discusses a lot about the mirror scene which happens in the text. This is when the narrator learns he is not truly completely white, as he always thought, bringing him to either deny “his own history… or the acceptance of an unjustifiable but undeniable economic and social subjugation” (Sheehy). Sheehy proceeds to describe Henry Louis Gate’s theory to discuss the perspectives and the “signification”, but also mixes it with Lacan’s identity theory (Sheehy). After talking lengthily about the theory of Signification and the Identity theory, the double consciousness which is seen throughout the novel is brought into account. Other topics are talked throughout, such as going exploring deeper into a consciousness about sentimental and racial issues, also bring about a discussion about The House Behind the Cedars, ending with talking about Johnson but also Du Bois to discuss racial dualism and issues withing these communities.
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Joshua K.
12/3/2014 09:59:19 pm
“On becoming an ex-man: Postmodern irony and the extinguishing certainties in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” by Neil Brooks talks about the “autobiography” that Johnson made but also talks in general about passing novels, and how these terms state that “one must be either all white or all black” which clearly goes against what the text was about (Brooks). Brooks talks about why this is seen in society, but also why the novel talks about these issues very ironically, whilst also adding pieces of Du Bois’s discussion in his argument. Once again the identity theory is described; however Brooks seems to use more evidence from other texts such as “passages from advertisements in nineteenth-century newspapers” (Brooks). Postmodernism and Wilde’s novel is discusses with many quotes, whilst also once more talking about irony, however in various senses. Brookes ends showing how Johnson used various techniques from other slave narratives, such as by showing how Mackethan describes Johnson’s books from this sort of perspective.
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Jessica G.
12/4/2014 03:04:13 am
Barnhart, Bruce. “Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” African American Review. Fall 2006. BNET.
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Caroline Reges
12/4/2014 05:01:04 am
In the article, “Chronopolitics and race”, Barnhart describes how music is used within the novel. Barnhart is able to relate music to time. Classical music is a type of time “that revolves around necessity, calculability, and the expected”(2). Ragtime is “built out of a clash of forces”(2), which shows the relation between force and time. They may seem like complete opposite forms of music, but “they rely on each other for their constitution”(3). While ragtime was something that didn’t exist in Europe for a long time, it would not of been invented without ideas from music and culture from all around the world. The narrator gets a lot of his inspiration for writing ragtime from what place he is in, which is why he wanted to go back to the south to be “at the obscure backwaters of small southern communities in search of the most valuable veins of musical ore” (6).
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Caroline Reges
12/4/2014 05:36:05 am
In the essay “Passing as autobiography”, Goellnicht “explores the complexities of the African-American experience”(1). There is a lot of irony throughout the book, because at some points, the narrator is “self-consciously ironic in his treatment of significant issues concerning himself of his race”(2) while at other times the narrator’s view is very blind and is “the object of our ironic gaze” (2). Some people thought this book was an authentic biography, but Johnson meant to “educate white America about its “exotic” and unknown “other””(3) Johnson is able to show how African Americans should not be treated as a whole. They all can be very different personalities. Slaves used to be sold at auctions, which really shows really “de-humanizes”(7) them, and makes white people think that they are better than slaves. One example of irony is when the narrator replaces the millionaire’s valet, which his typically a job a low class person has.
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Zach C.
12/4/2014 05:59:26 am
Revising critical judgments of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Heather Russell Andrade
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Gabriel H
12/5/2014 12:34:46 am
Sheehy, John. “The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American Racial Identity.” African American Review. Fall, 1999. BNET. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_33/ai_58056037. 10 December 2009.
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Gabriel H.
12/5/2014 12:50:53 am
Barnhart, Bruce. “Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” African American Review. Fall 2006. BNET. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_40/ai_n18630055?tag=rbxcra.2.a.4. 10 December 2009.
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Logan H
12/5/2014 02:58:12 am
Brooks, Neil. “On becoming an ex-man: Postmodern irony and the extinguishing certainties in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored
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Harleigh P
12/5/2014 06:23:09 am
Sheehy, John. “The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American
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Shaina L.
12/5/2014 08:17:01 am
Armistead, Greg. “The Consequences of the Faded Color Line in The Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man.” October 22, 2006. http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/excoloredman/essay1.html
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Caitlyn H.
12/7/2014 05:08:35 am
Armistead, Greg. "The Consequences of the Faded Color Line in." Study Guides & Essay Editing. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2014.
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Cole H
12/7/2014 01:25:49 pm
Armistead, Greg. “The Consequences of the Faded Color Line in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” October 22, 2006.
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Jesus S.
12/7/2014 10:11:38 pm
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Jesus S.
12/7/2014 10:18:21 pm
In "The consequences of the Faded Color Line" by Greg Armistead, he states that today's society "sees through a faded lens" and that we dont see what is really there. We classify people by skin rather than by character. He also points out the James Weldon Johnson in "Ex-Colored Man" addresses the color line, but still escapes from the problems a black man faces in these times. Also , he incorporates how it is interesting that Johnson see both sides of the line. He has shown what it is like. The writer also says that "the absence of a racial identity bars the man from the existence he longed to appreciate.
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Sophia M
12/7/2014 11:59:11 pm
Barnhart, Bruce. “Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” African American Review. Fall 2006. BNET.
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Sophia M
12/8/2014 12:14:17 am
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Frida Ø. L.
12/8/2014 02:06:39 am
Armistead, Greg. “The Consequences of the Faded Color Line in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” October 22, 2006. www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/excoloredman/essay1.html
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Cole H
12/9/2014 12:31:17 am
Sheehy, John. "The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American Racial Identity." African American Review. Fall, 1999. BNET. 8 Dec 2014.
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Erica B.
12/9/2014 05:08:18 am
"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Essay | The Consequences of the Faded Color Line in." Study Guides & Essay Editing. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2014.
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Frida Ø. L.
12/10/2014 02:12:09 am
Barnhart, Bruce. “Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” African American Review. Fall 2006. BNET. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_40/ai_n18630055?tag=rbxcra.2.a.4. 10 December 2009.
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