I am asking to reflect on issues of race and blackness at Adichie address in Americanah in relation to personal experience or observations made about contemporary social practice. this reflective essay allows you to analyze an event happened to you, related to the quote below. “QUOTE WILL BE ATTACHED AS A FILE” (6 pages) Based on your reading and understanding of the issues raised in the novel, how well do the ideas account for your own personal ideas about race and for contemporary society’s ideas of race? support response with specific examples from the novel. integrate ideas taken from the novel and your own arguments into a single, coherent thesis structuring the essay. conclude with two paragraphs in which you address the importance of having the perspective of an african write on race in america — in terms of how it made you alert to race in a different way. (remember the narrative must be of a Latin American woman)
‘Americanah’ by Chimamanda Ngozi
March 31st, 2017