LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Booker T. Washington’s message in Up from Slavery is:
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Whites should pay reparations to former slaves.
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African Americans should acculturate to mainstream White culture.
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White institutions should reform to meet African American needs.
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African Americans will have to help themselves by becoming educated.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Washington argued that African Americans must concentrate on educating themselves, learning useful trades, and investing in their own businesses. Hard work, economic progress, and merit, he believed, would prove to whites the value of blacks to the American economy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Dignity of Labor Perhaps the most developed theme in Up From Slavery is that of finding dignity in labor. Washington believes that slavery has given black Americans a distorted perception of labor-that it is a degrading rather than an uplifting and honorable practice.
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