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Cultural Universals: Study Of African Americans In The 1960s

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Cultural Universals in Literature Anthropology is the study of different human cultures and how they evolved. Cultural Universals are in novels so that you can deepen your understanding of a novel. Understanding of African Americans in the 1960s was very important. In the 1960s African Americans thought of whites as devils. Malcolm X a famous human rights activist once famously proclaimed “Our enemy is the white man, oh yes that devil is our enemy”(Meyers 123). This sparked an uprising in African Americans. The whites had treated them inadequately and African Americans demanded equal treatment. This Cultural Universal is very crucial, displaying the judgment of African Americans which helps us understand how they reacted and better understand
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