Midterm Response

I thought the hardest part of writing this essay was going back through the book and through the readings and finding quotes to support our argument. I feel as if most of my quotations came from Painter and the lectures, because most of the readings didn't talk about how African Americans resisted oppression and created a transformed culture. I thought the majority of them were focused on how the field on African American studies came about, so it was harder to pull quotes out from readings than I thought it would be. Overall, I thought that it was an interesting and engaging paper to write. I ended up liking this paper more than some of the papers I have written in the past.