Hurr yet the philadelphia clubwoman is ashamed to say that her race created it and she does not like me to write about it. the old subconscious “white is best” runs through her mind. years of study under white teachers, a lifetime of white books, pictures, and papers, and white manners, morals, and puritan standards made her dislike the spirituals. and now she turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifestations—likewise almost everything else distinctly racial. she doesn’t care for the winold reiss portraits of negroes because they are “too negro.” she does not want a true picture of herself from anybody. which best describes hughes’s chief concern in this excerpt? he is distraught that this woman does not embrace her own heritage. he is worried that this woman will not accept his work because of its topics. he is jealous that this woman had a better education than he did. he is upset that this woman does not appreciate the beauty of jazz music.

He is distraught that this woman does not embrace her own heritage.

The correct answer is A.

Explanation:

In this excerpt, we can see Hughe's concern about this woman's rejection of her own heritage. She has the idea that white is better too rooted in her brain to be able to appreciate what her own race produces, such as jazz. She does not want to see herself in a picture because she resents her own skin colour. She cannot accept herself not her heritage.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)