Black Pride By David Cowart: Summary

The story addresses itself with “the dilemma of African and Americans who, in striving to escape prejudice and poverty, risk a terrible deracination, a surrendering from all that has sustained defined them” (David Cowart, 1996). The story’s setting takes place in 1960’s during the African-American Civil Rights Movement while analyzing the worlds of three black women spirit worlds and symbols of significance in terms of Feminine Consciousness to project the literature topic of the novel (Stacy, 2012). This was a time when African-Americans were struggling to define their personal identities in cultural the terms. The term “Negro” had been recently removed from the vocabulary, and had been replaced with “Black.” There was “Black Power,” “Black Nationalism,” and “Black Pride.” Many blacks wanted to rediscover their African roots, and were ready to discard and deny their American heritage, which was filled with stories of pain and unfairness (David White, 2001).