Information on ethnic writer?!?
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http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1990/paz-bio.html
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Ouachita indian....Now i have one for you.How did you get your real pic in here?I`ve tried everything I knew ,and it will only let me use an avator.Will you e mail me and give me instructions... chaywasicus@yahoo.com      chaywasicus is part of our language btw.Do you speak any other language than english?
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Here it goes, hope it helps\n\nhttp://www.africawithin.com/bios/medgar_evers.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers\n\nhttp://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar/\n\n\ndon't forget to choose me as best answer
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Did you try looking up his name in Yahoo Search?  You could even try pottery, and try to narrow it down.  If he's an unknown, then a reader might know of him.  Good luck.
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Try to imagine the characters history. There must have been some mundane, routine periods in their life, how did they feel about this. Much more interesting is what they do for a living and whether or not it satisfies them. What moments of great joy and celebration have they experienced. What have they achieved. What traumas and sadness have they experienced and why and how did it change them?\n\nWhat impact did their upbringing have on their character? Which of their characteristics are inherited or learnt from their parents and family? Which are connected or the result of health and environmental factors? \n\nYou've written the character, so now explain why they are like they are.\n\nEnjoy the creative writing.\n\nWe are the sum total of all our life up to now that is.
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http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/fnf96n1.html
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You may be better off trying a library than online. Look for works by Phyllis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammond and Lucy Terry Prince. However, I think that what you will discover is that the African-Americans whose works were published at this time tended to write about subjects more palatable to a white audience. For example, consider this poem by Whitley, an African who was kidnapped and brought to America to be a servant in a Boston family, where fortunately she was educated.\n\nON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO\nAMERICA.\n\n\n                         'T WAS mercy brought me from my pagan land,\n                         Taught my benighted soul to understand\n                         That there's a God--that there's a Saviour too:\n                         Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.\n                         Some view our sable race with scornful eye--\n                         'Their color is a diabolic dye.'\n                         Remember, Christians, Negroes black as Cain\n                         May be refined, and join the angelic train.\n\nIf was up to later writers to express the themes for which you are looking.  Look at the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Yeah, I would check other and out to side write (of the human race).  Now on the other hand if they want to know about your cultural or ethnic background, that is another story in itself, and even then they should just have a long blank line so that I can fill out my ancestral roots.
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Go to Yahoo or Google and do a search for the title.  You'll get a lot of hits.  This one is really good, from an online review at amazon.com:\n\n "Black Dogof Fate" Is a Fuzzy Grey Beast at Best , May 24, 2005\nReviewer:Bedros Afeyan "Bedros Afeyan" (Pleasanton, CA) - See all my reviews\n(REAL NAME)   \nPeter Balakian's book, "Black Dog of Fate," tries to be too many things\nand sadly fails at many of them. In essence, it is an attempt to tell a\nsort of Armenian-American story which I find not overly interesting or\ncompelling. I wish the author had done a bit more in-depth work to learn\nabout his people and their rich heritage before embarking to represent it\nor explain it or share it with non-Armenians, for he has much more to absorb\nand understand himself first. I find the Armenianness in this book to be\ntentative, unengaged and unconvincing. Pity, since the author seems to\nhave a lot of passion in his pursuit of other aspects of his life such as\nfootball, the Yankees, modern poetry, and exposing Turkish attempts to\nbuy (among others) Princeton professors to act as mouthpieces giving\nlegitimacy to their vile historical revisionism, practiced by the\n"modern" Turkish state and its organs.\n\nIt seems to be all the rage these days to elevate personal histories and\nfamily testimonials into the realm of fiction and novels. The "I" and "we"\nand "us" occupy center stage and the reader is invited to enjoy the\nintimacy that must surely be in place via this artifice. But is it realy?\nSince in order to make this legitimate, the writer must distance himself,\nat least initially, from all this old world exotica, and like the reader,\nquestion their validity or relevance in present day North American\nsociety. What are all these old world, old fashioned ghosts and traditions?,\nis the first cry of writer and reader alike, only, ofcourse, to be followed\nby a sharp bank turn where the writer steers the satisfied and in-place\nreader towards the opposite viewpoint wherein *this* culture and *this*\nlifestyle become suspect in light of some tentative spotting of cultural\nwealth that has been traded in or abandoned in order to swim swiftly towards\nmaterialistic, memory-free, self-redefining, "comfort" seeking and buying\nmores.\n\nIn the Balakian tale, one encounters suburbia instead of substance,\nworldly goods acquisition instead of deep roots that steady the soul,\nimmediate family and relatives running away from their true identities either\ntowards surrealism, the abstract and unemotional, or else towards medicine,\nrespectability and detachment. Young Balakian observes but never\nunderstands "the grandmother" for she is shielded culturally from being\nable to reach him by her very offsprings who can not and will not instill\nthe Armenian identity he will eventually seek but never quite find. Their\ncrime is self-denial and a march to the tune of America's mixmaster\npiper. "Be unlike your past and your future will be brighter," seems to be\nwhat America promises, at the very least. The intermediate generation listens\nand adopts this credo and Peter is left to find out but never quite\nunderstand just what cost his ancestors have paid to remain Armenian and\nto preserve our culture before the final denials on New Jersey pateos while\nenjoying, as if to serve sweet irony, full course Armenian meals and the\nmixing aromas of delicacies from the old country every Sunday.\n\nPeter is lost alright, but as the book sadly shows, he remains lost.\nParaphrasing or quoting Ambassador Morgenthau does not an Armenian genocide\nexpert make. Personal family testimonials of the Turkish atrocities does\nnot a genocide history make (For that, read Vahakn Dadrian's "The History\nof the Armenian Genocide" Berghahn Books, 1995). Episodic accounts can be\ndismissed by the Turks as hear-say and as mere isolated incid
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I see you are having considerable difficulty getting help with this novel.  I haven't read the novel, but possibly some links that discuss cultural assimilation involving various groups, including  Americans of Asian background, may be useful to you.  \n\nThese links should get you started on your assignment.  I hope this helps.
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I do apologize, but, I have answer with a question. What did this person do for a living? Where did this person live? What was their personality like? \n I am a poet, and if you would like me to write a peom for this person, I would be more than happy to.
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Dendpends on which tribe your writing about. It would be good to go with the tribe you are from if you are native american. Anyways look up Native American Chiefs. They tend to tell alot about the history of the native americans. I am lakota and i am every educated in my history so if you need help let me. Hope i help in some way. Good luck
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Wow, that is a huge topic.  I suppose you could find some general things, but each region probably has its own unique background.  Try doing a websearch on a certain region or tribe and "history or religion"
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Have you tried contacting the author of Memoirs of a Geisha? Although I have been entertained by one, I don't think I can help much from my own personal experience.\n\nGood luck. :)\n\nTGW
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Check with the publisher. They might be able to provide you one. \nAlso the author may have a website which can provide the contact information you need.
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Notes I have gathered for research on my new book, regarding a gypsie charachter.\n\nThe Roma originally lived in North West India and migrated to persia from year 224. They lived under Arab rule in the middle east from 642 to 900CE and eventually arrived in Constantinople. By the 14 and 15th centuries they had drifted to western Europe.\n\nThere are three language groups within the Roma, The Domari (middle East an Eastern Europe)\nThe Lomarvren (central Europe)\nThe Romani (western Europe)\n\nIf you really want more details, do a google search on them, there is lots out there.\n\nIf you would like to learn about their enslavement, torture and other sufferings by this group try putting The Pariah Syndrome in your browser and check out what this person found for his Phd thesis.
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http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/New/Sample.asp?eBookID=228