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Item Articulation of African American Identity in Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2010) Thapa, KiranOnly culture can be a surest weapon to amend the distorted image of one’s own identity. This research focuses on how Ellison rejects the trend of presenting African American culture as that of suppressed community that minimizes the people to be true to stereotypical image. Ellison brings African American culture at the centre of his novel, Juneteenth. This novel has really drawn the African American culture into a positive discussion among the wider audience. The black characters in this novel speak out Ellison’s vision of liberation and redemption as a complex phenomenon which can never be complete without cooperation, understanding and we-feeling. Likewise, this research has ventured into the process of identity formation. White American like Bliss is not ready to realize his identity as connected with blacks so he tries to evade his identity and as a result meets a tragic destiny. By reflecting the notion of connectedness, Ellison strives to reserve a dignified space for Black culture thereby asserting the fact that black culture is an important stakeholder of American identity without which America remains identity less.Item The Construction of Blackness:Reading Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois(Department of English, 2007) Regmi, Bhagawat PrasadLangston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois in their texts revealthat there is black awarenessblack utopiain their literature. They also showno place where an African American can escape the equalities of racism.But both of themfavourtheblackness withouthesitation and any shameandresistto white supremacy.However, they create blackness in their culture, literatureandeven day to day life.Langston Hughes'sThe Negro Artists and Racial MountainandHarlemsuggest the resistance of white, supremacy and proclaims the end of racism butculture focusing African American have not yet found a model for thinking and speaking outside the frameof racist ideology. So,Hughes voicewishes the equality, a vision of racial difference. Du Bois inThe Souls of Black Folkgives expression to hisprivilegingofAfrican American blackness, the problemsblack's social degradation—Negro social consciousness. He also looks the double-consciousness or one black feels his two- ness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts two warring ideals in oneblack body and Southern African American problems.