Write a two-page paper on  What does it mean to be Black?  Paragraph 1-3: Drawing from the list of theorists listed below, give three different theoretical perspectives on Blackness

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Write a two-page paper on  What does it mean to be Black? 

Paragraph 1-3: Drawing from the list of theorists listed below, give three different theoretical perspectives on Blackness. Each paragraph will have a different thinker. Chose one important idea of each thinker. 

Paragraph 4-6: Discuss three different ways in which these ideas relate to how you think about yourself. One idea per paragraph. The fact that you might not define yourself as Black does not make the ideas any less relevant.

LIST OF THINKERS: 

Some of the thinkers you can use are as follows

James Baldwin

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Patricia Hill Collins

Kimberle Crenshaw

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Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi

Tommy J. Curry

W.E.B DuBois

Franz Fanon 

Marcus Garvey

Dick Gregory

Stuart Hall

bell hooks

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kendrick Lamar

Toni Morrison

Wangechi Mutu

Rex Nettleford on “Smaddism”

Gil Scott-Heron

Wole Soyinka

Beverly Stoute on Black Rage. On BB

Kara Walker

Cornell West

August Wilson

Malcolm X

GUIDELINES

In selecting your thinkers do not stick to the obvious ones. Choose at least one thinker who you have never hear of. Ensure also that at least one of 

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your thinkers is female. Ensure that at least one thinker is an artist. You can only use one artist/musician.