Incidentally, this makes an interesting way to overcome the resistance to the material. Without being much aware that they are experiencing African-American culture, most Americans like the style and sound of blues and jazz, share some of the ways of dress associated with those arts and their audiences, and know the speech patterns. Connections One can make a comparison with Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Richard Wright's Native Son . The basis is the degree of identification with African-Americans accomplished in each. Measure and discuss the gap between the shock felt by Delano and the communion of the brothers in Baldwin's story.
College students are responsive to questions of the ethics of success.
Negro American Literature Forum 4, no. A Critical Evaluation , edited by Theman B. O'Daniel, 163-69. Howard University Press, 1977.