Black Power

Kimani Williams

                                                                                                    September 10th, 2014

                                                                                                    ENG1100

                                                                                                    Professor Young

                                                                                                      

In the chapter “ Black Power”, the author James McBride battles with his race as a child, questioning what his mother stands by as a white woman with black children. Growing up in the era of the “Black Power” movement, McBride  grows concerned for his mother’s safety and started to believe “Black Power would be the end of her”.

  McBride perceives “Black Power” to be something feared. However, because his mother refused to embrace her “whiteness” and identified with the black race, “Black Power” becomes an idea that he is unsure of when he identifies himself.