EAAPoetryAnalysis


 * __Some concepts in "Primer for Blacks"__**

In "Primer for Blacks" Gwendolyn Brooks writes about the following concepts: She talks about equality and the place or role of blacks in society, for example in lines 10 to 15 ""It's great to be white." The conscious shout of the slack on black is "It's great to be white." Thus all that is white has white strength and yours." In these lines you can see that whites were more of value than black people. You can see some kind of response to racism in lines 22 and the following. "And remember you Blacks, what they told you - remember your Education: "one Drop - one Drop maketh a brand new Black.""... what means you were considered black if you only had "one drop" of African blood and whites could decide on that. The following lines show a sort of pride, black empowerment, beauty and unity. For example in lines 29 to 33: "Blackness stretches over the land. Blackness - the Black of it, the rust red of it,...", lines 38/39: "Blackness marches on." or line 42: "...to salute and to Love the fact that we are Black" So mainly "Primer for Blacks" deals with black unity and self-esteem.