Everyday Use
Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" is about a mother who has two daughters, one who has remained at home and appreciates their family heirlooms because of their connection to the home and their family, and another daughter who has become interested in the Black Nationalist movement and who looks at the same articles and appreciates them more for their aesthetic appeal than their deeper meaning. Through this story, Walker makes a larger statement about the Black Nationalist movement to which daughter Dee belongs. She claims to want to honor her African heritage by adopting a more ethnic sounding name and by holding on to items which have meaning to her history as a descendant of slaves. This is a peripheral connection to her heritage and has no true meaning. Dee desires of her family treasures in order to fit in with a group, not because she has any true feeling about her circumstances or the plight of the African-American community.
The Black Nationalist Movement began as a tangential occurrence to the Civil Rights Movement. While certain men like Martin Luther King, Jr. And Medger Evers were preaching equality and nonviolent resistance, there was another faction gaining support which advocated violent revolution against the white majority. Among other things, the Black Nationalists believed that the United States and most all European nations had essentially racist attitudes and that their governments only enforced these prejudicial views. The group demanded the continuation of segregation...
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