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Consider Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” in the context of the other writings about race (David Walker & Frederick Douglass to Coates). Hughes asserts American ideals while denying that America has upheld those ideals. This is a pretty common theme.
Write a 5–7-page response. What has been missing from America? Using the texts from class (Including musical elections), what would it take for America to be America “again”?
Go Down Moses – Louis Armstrong
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Born Dead – JB Lenoir
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Alabama Blues – JB Lenoir
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Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
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Big Bill Broonzy – Black, Brown & White
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This Train – Big Bill Broonzy
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Haitian Fight Song – Charles Mingus
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Strange Fruit – Nina Simone — WARNING –violent, true imagery and images
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Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
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Backlash Blues – Nina Simone
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People Get Ready – Curtis Mayfield
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll – Bob Dylan
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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan
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Art Blakey – Moanin’
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
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America Is – Violent Femmes
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Fuck tha Police -NWA
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Fight the Power
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Sound of da Police – KRS – 1
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This Is America – Childish Gambino
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