The underprivileged blacks are also involved in this revolution too, but it is mainly up to the intellectuals who are already rooted in the white man's society. The books we read about, talked about the beginning of this social-revolution: the slavery and the effort to escape it, the renaissance and the assertion of blacks into the middle-class. Now, the time has come for the final stage in this very long and tedious project: for all blacks to be rooted in today's society.
             I do not believe one can talk about blacks in America without first analyzing the lives of blacks in Africa. They too went through and are still going through a period of modernization, colonialization, and social change. This is evident in Chinua Achebe's novel No Longer At Ease, a book about colonialism in Africa. Throughout this book, we see Africans having to cope with modernization. To further advance their diminished culture in the new way of society, they must find the elite or the intellectuals amongst their own tribal people who will be able to succeed in the white man's world. Among their people, they find one Obi Okonkwo who was part of the black elite in his tribe. He was intellectual and capable of learning the way of the white man. Here, it is clearly evident that it is up to the black intellectuals of the middle-class sects to further our kind into receiving social equality. Obi is sent to England for education so he can obtain a law degree. With this degree, he would better his tribe's chances of survival in the new society. He would be able to fight the white man for land they had seized from his tribe upon their arrival in Africa. Being educated in the white man's land, Obi began identifying himself with the white culture. He ended up attaining a degree in literature. In being associated with white culture, Obi corrupted himself; he fell into the category of the assimilationists. He fell out of touch wit...