Malcolm X
How has Freddie "schooled" Malcolm X
Freddie teaches Malcolm that everything is a hustle and his income came from selling alcohol and refers
How does Malcolm x describe the Waumbeck and Humbett Avenue Hill section of Roxbury?
He describes it as the sugar hill in Harlem. "A snooty Afro-American neighborhood"that looked down their noses at the people in the nearby ghetto.
How does Malcolm X feel more comfortable in the ghetto?
He felt that the ghetto were being their natural selves and he didn't want to look down on other negros to feel better
How does Malcolm X's reaction to the hill contrast with the inhabitants of the ghetto
He is critical of the African Americans on hill calling them brainwashed and suffering from "self-delusion". The attitude and style of the hip young people with their hair like "white men's hair" enthralled him
What does Malcolm X mean that foreign diplomats could have modeled their attitudes of waiters and butlers?
He is implying that the successful people who lived on the hill, were so comically refined and they act like foreign diplomats
What might this preference indicate about how Malcolm X views himself
He seems himself as natural and does not need to imitate white people
What difference forms of the word dignity does Malcolm X?
He uses dignity meaning self-worth and indignity treatment that causes one to feel shame or lose dignity
Why does Malcom X call the conk an "emblem of his shame"?
It symbolizes that African-Americans are inferior to white people or they would look better as white people
How do Malcolm's views further refine the ghetto and the hill
Malcolm X has defined the hill as a place where "successful" African Americans who are maids and butlers to white families "talk so affectedly", that people can't understand them. This behavior contrasts with the black people who live in the ghetto who are more relaxed and natural are not putting on airs.
Why does Malcolm X use both dignified and in dignified to describe the inhabitants of the hill?
Malcolm X is suggesting that the dignity of the hill is false. They believe they are better off, than others but they are not
Why does Malcolm X state that the inhabitants of the hill are brainwashed even more throughly
Malcolm states that the apparent "haughty and dignified" behavior of the African Americans in the neighborhood is no different from the "successful" Negro boot backs and janitors back in Langsing. The residents of the hill think they have achieved success,but only imitate white people
How is the behavior of the residences divisive among the hill African American community
The residents' behavior creates a system in which some African Americans believe that are "better off than their black brethren down in the ghetto" Even the people who live on the hill are divided, with the "snooty" New-Englanders looking down on the "Southern strivers and scramblers and West Indian Negros"
What does the word dignity mean in this context?
The word dignity means self-worth or high-status
How does the behavior of the residences of the hill of integration?
They are attempting to imitate the behavior of rich or important white people, such as those in banking
