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Critical Reflection Paper “American Lazarus: Race, Religion, and Regeneration” Name Class Date Critical Reflection Paper “American Lazarus: Race, Religion, and Regeneration” The reasons and conditions of the development of color literature in the United States have been discussed in Joanna Brooks’ work “American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures” published in 2003. The author has emphasized that Native American and African American authors were forced to incorporate evangelicalism in their writing to show their protest against of the political, social and economic stereotyping. Brooks stated that “Such accounts appealed to popular racial stereotypes – Indian primitivism, black mimicry – but they also demonstrate positive valuation of racial difference as a significant element within the spectacular lexicon of the revivals” (Brooks 2003, 22-23). The author has supported her thesis statement with historical, social, cultural and other facts that are valuable for justification of the evangelical motives of the Native Americans and African Americans writers of the 18th century. Discussing the history of the African American and Native American writing occurrence has become the first and the most significant justification of the Great Awakening occurrence. Brooks claimed that inequality of the social services available for Whites and People of Color were abusive. The creation of vague stereotypes has led people of color to start their way of protest against of inequality and injustice. Nowadays, “scholars continue to view the Great Awakening as a watershed in American intellectual and social
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