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Focuses on the Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognized Colored writer from the Cape Flats, which reflects the growing popularization among politicized Colored people during the 1970s of the idea that racial distinctions in general, and Colored identity in particular, which had historically been used by the white supremacist establishment to divide and rule the black majority. Romanticization of Matthews' role as poet and cultural activist; Matthews' new wave of black protest poetry that emerged in the early 1970s that primarily addressed a black readership rather than a general audience.