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The Black Middle Ages by Matthew X. Vernon
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Matthew X. Vernon

One could go as far to read the discrepancy between the sophistication of the frame narrative and the simplicity of the folk tale as a hopeful assessment of the social ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
Dislocating Race & Nation by Robert S. Levine
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Robert S. Levine

However much Crafts might wish to attribute the “reeking” filth to the degradation forced upon enslaved blacks by whites, she seems to discern in the cabin something essentially repulsive about ...
( Category: United States June 29,2020 )
The Great War and Modern Memory by Fussell Paul;
epub |eng | 1975-06-14 | Author:Fussell, Paul;

SURVIVALS Nobody alive during the war, whether a combatant or not, ever got over its special diction and system of metaphor, its whole jargon of techniques and tactics and strategy. ...
( Category: European June 28,2020 )
Deep Water by Thomas Ruys Smith
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Thomas Ruys Smith

“Oh, Ain’t I Gone, Gone, Gone, Way Down de Ribber Road” Minstrelsy’s fixation with the Mississippi River hardly went away after the Civil War. Continuing stage adaptations of Uncle Tom’s ...
( Category: United States June 28,2020 )
Weird but Normal by Mia Mercado
epub |eng | 2020-03-20 | Author:Mia Mercado

I’m a Guy’s Girl Oh, I didn’t see you there—I was too busy watching sports and shotgunning beers. I’m a pretty typical tomboy. Also, I’m pretty. It’s confusing, I know. ...
( Category: United States June 27,2020 )
'I can't Breathe' The Cities Cry Echoing George Floyd's Final Words by HENRY KADESHA
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:HENRY, KADESHA [HENRY, KADESHA]

Chapter 7 Blacks Are Important Over the past few years we have seen various pictures in the media of law enforcement shootings and in most cases they result in the ...
( Category: United States June 27,2020 )
You're Doing Great! by Tom Papa
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Papa

IT’S DATE NIGHT I know it sounds corny and it is. I know it sounds like the most unspontaneous thing you could do. And you’re not wrong. But it’s date ...
( Category: United States June 15,2020 )
Shadow Archives by Jean-Christophe Cloutier
epub |eng | | Author:Jean-Christophe Cloutier

FIGURE 3.8. Detail from contact sheet, untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948; image for caption H, “Harlem Is Nowhere” project. Photograph by Gordon Parks. Source: Courtesy of and copyright © The ...
( Category: United States June 10,2020 )
Mourning the Nation to Come by Jillian Sayre
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Jillian Sayre

AnOther Mother Against this hearty reconciliation of the white, Christian American community lingers the specter of another mother, Hobomok’s mother. This Native American mother has the potential to serve as ...
( Category: United States June 7,2020 )
Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines by Keith Clark
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Keith Clark

The African America folk heroic tradition allows for the sometimes ambiguous and questionable nature of African American heroic actions and African American heroic figures. Work for the common good outweighs ...
( Category: United States May 28,2020 )
Occupy Pynchon by Carswell Sean;
epub |eng | 2017-05-24 | Author:Carswell, Sean;

If Wall Street Is the 1 Percent, We’re Everybody Else Pynchon’s act of situating the climax of the gunplay around the coal miners’ strike in Ludlow in 1913 and 1914 ...
( Category: United States May 25,2020 )
Race Matters, Animal Matters by Johnson Lindgren;
epub |eng | | Author:Johnson, Lindgren;

“Dave’s Neckliss” poignantly portrays this impasse between description and experience through and in its layered and conflated, yet disconnected presentation of flesh and bodies—of pain—both animal and human, unseen and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 24,2020 )
Here We Are by Benjamin Taylor
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Benjamin Taylor [Taylor, Benjamin]

* * * — A renowned comedian, formerly thought funny, lives in my building. Philip is intrigued by this figure, whom he calls an anti-Semite’s delight, and is forever pumping ...
( Category: United States May 20,2020 )
Don't Give a Fig by Dillon and Kale Sprouts
epub |eng | 2020-03-07 | Author:Dillon and Kale Sprouts

Published in 2020 by Harper Design An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 195 Broadway New York, New York 10007 Tel: (212) 207-7000 Fax: (855) 746-6023 [email protected] www.hc.com Distributed throughout North America by ...
( Category: United States May 17,2020 )
The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 by Zaleski Philip (editor)
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Zaleski, Philip (editor)

These days we trade off, one year at a hotel with my family and the next at a different hotel with hers. Though the location may change, there is an ...
( Category: United States May 17,2020 )

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