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 * //__Gwendolyn Brooks__//**
 * Primer for Blacks**

Blackness is a title, is a preoccupation is a commitment Blacks are to comprehend- and in which you are to perceive your glory

The conscious shout of all that is white is “It’s Great to be white.” The conscious shout of the slack in Black is “It’s Great to be white.” Thus all that is white has white strength and yours.

The word Black has geographic power, pulls everybody in: Blacks here- Blacks there- Blacks wherever they may be. and remember, you Blacks, what they told you- remember your Education: “one Drop – one Drop maketh a brand new Black.” Oh mighty Drop. and because they have given us kindly so many more of our people

Blackness stretches over the land. Blackness- the Black of it, the rust-red of it, the milk and cream of it, the deep-brown middle-brown high-brown of it, the “olive’ and ochre of it- Blackness marches on.

The huge pungent object of our prime out-ride is to Comprehend, to salute and to Love the fact that we are Black. which //is// our “ultimate Reality,” which is the lone ground from which our meaningful metamorphosis, from which our prosperous staccato, group or individual, can rise

Self-shriveled Blacks. Begun with gaunt and marvelous concession: YOU are our costume and our fundamental bone.

All of you- you COLORED ones, you NEGRO ones, those of you who proudly cry “I’m half INDian”- those of you who proudly screech “I’VE got the blood of George WASHington in MY veins-

ALL of you- you proper Blacks, you half-Blacks, you wish-I-weren’t Blacks, Niggeroes and Niggerenes.

You.


 * __Analysis: Justin Oduaran and Neal Kowalskie__

Terms to Understand: -Preoccupation:** Something that takes one's full attention. -**Slack:** Lack of Force. -**Ochre:** brownish orange-yellow -**Staccato:** playing of a musical instrument with a crisp.
 * -Pungent:** Sharp and intense like a powerful odor.

The summary of this poem is that the African americans in the poem are stated that everyone says how the whites are such as dominate race. Everyone believes that the white race is the better race and how it is "Great to be White". The author is in this story shows the african american aspect of black empowerment and black beauty. The author is saying that the lack of black unity in this time should be addressed in which they should celebrating their blackness (Black Beauty) to later be able to rise up and overcome. The African Americans in this poem are stating how demeaningful their lives are and the whites are just adding onto it by making themselves more aggressive toward the black race. -First: it states that it is a title to be black meaning your time will come for glory. -Second- Whites are not that great and they will soon realize. -Third- Explains how blacks have a strong and important power to its definition and meaning. -Fourth- Explains how slow time moves now but it will go by and will be ok. -Fifth- Says how blacks are there for a reason and to serve. -Sixth- Racism toward the blacks noted as colored ones and how the whites believe that they are the powerful race due to their ancestors. -Eight- The way that the word "Indian" is written in this sentence makes the stanza unique. This shows how the African Americans are saying to the whites that you can call us what ever you would like, but we will still have our pride.
 * Summary:**
 * Important Stanzas:**

The meaning of this poem is to make the audience realize just how disorganized the black community was at the time in wihch they should just accept it and move forward. Structure- Context Literary Terms Imagery Figurative Language Tone and theme
 * Meaning:**
 * form-organic
 * stanza- 6
 * lines-64
 * language- common
 * punctuation-comma, period, capitalization, dashes, hyphens, quotation marks
 * Author-Gwendolyn Brooks, female, Black, explores pride and self-esteem of African Americans
 * Historical- Written in response to race riots and other occurences in black community after 1967
 * Text is trying to show the need for black unity and empowerment
 * alliteration- lines 45 and 33
 * repetition-lines 2-5, 10 and 13, 30-37, 43-44, 45-46, 51 and 58
 * anaphora- Is a-lines 2-5, Blacks-19-21, the-lines 32-37, Which is-43-44,From- 45-46
 * Sight- Blackness stretches over the land
 * Sight- Blackness- the black of it, the rust red of it, the milk and cream of it, the tan of it, the deep brown middle-brown high brown of it, the "olivr and ochre of it.
 * metaphor- lines 45- from which our meanigful metamorphosis, lines 16-18- The word Black has geogarphic power, pulls everybody in:, lines 26-39, line 50- You are our costume and fundamental bone.
 * tone - angrered/critical
 * topic- the addressing the lack of unity in the black community
 * angle- first person
 * Theme- Black is your reality so accept and move forward

__Author Study__ Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, but was raised in chicago. Her mother took her to see Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson in which it helped to inspire her to be a writer. Published first poem in magazine at 13 years old. After graduatintg junior college she continued to write in which put her first poetry collection called "Street in Bronzeville" in 1945. Her second book ,called "Auntie Allen", won her the first pultizer prize for an african american. After attending the Second Black Writers' Conference at fisk university, she really began to question the turbulent times in which the race riots were occuring at that time. Received more than 50 honorary doctorates, honorary appointments, and even read literaturein the white house in 1980.