Assimilation of Blacks in Song of Solomon, Push and Life of Olaudah Equ

Assimilation of Blacks in stress of Solomon, Push and The provoke Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Our African American texts call for close examen of the status of slaves and subsequent generations of free Blacks, how they fit into American society, and their quest for and defensive structure of the benefits of Americanism. So does one assimilate or resist? But The resolve Pot Theory is non inclusive of Blacks since the process of assimilation could not work its magic on black skin. In the slave narrative, The evoke Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, the capture of Africans, their ultimate enslavement in the Americas, the West Indies, and Europe exemplify the assigned inferior status to Blacks in societies of the alien worlds. Blacks have less than their proportionate sh are of wealth, power, and social status, and are discriminated against by those in the majority. The yoke of slavery did not sanction inclusion, kinda it c onvoluted their status as immigrants or a colonized nonage and that sentiment remained a constant. Equianos race and his life as a soaring slave narrowed his opportunity of citizenship in a landed club consequently, he was neither immigrant or colonized. In fact, he was more displaced that ever, semivowel under whatever flag happened to be that of his owner/captain. In Song of Solomon and Push the characters are several generations removed from slavery so the interrogative mood is not whether the position of Blacks is that of immigrant or colonized minority, even though it could bulge to be either. More importantly, theirs is the problem of dealing with the ambiguities of being up from slavery, as the characters come into their own. The su... ...rally fixed neighborhoods, or sell out by bosom the dominant culture and sometimes attempting full assimilation (although it is realized impossible) in order to advance ones career, and acquire better housing and/or reading for ones children is ubiquitous. Total assimilation is not real for Black people, it never has been and it in all likelihood never will be and that is a sad commentary on the state of the country. Works Cited Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudauh Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. The definitive Slave Narratives. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York Penguin Group, 1987. McLemore, Dale S. Racial and Ethnic traffic in America. Boston Allyn and Bacon, 1991. Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York The Penguin Group, 1977. Sapphire. Push. New York Vintage Contemporaries, 1996.