An example of a song where explicit language seems necessary to achieving the artistic and thematic purposes of the work is in Rico Nasty and Kenny Beats’ “Hatin.” In the song, Rico raps with a rebellious and powerful energy about her success, using explicit langauge layered onto metaphors and similes. Behind the initial understanding that…
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Technology: Transporting You to a New Reality
Post Challenge: Considering Linda’s means of escape from slavery by hiding in the garret in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, think of a technology today that allows you to run away without going anywhere. A type of technology that allows people to “run away” without going anywhere are the…
Auditory Effects Actually Reinforce Death
Thirteen terse lines make up Edward Silvera’s poem “Finality,” a noteworthy piece in Volume I, Issue I of FIRE!! A Quarterly Dedicated to Younger Negro Artists (1926). Silvera succinctly describes the irrevocability of death, drawing upon imagery of the natural world while incorporating the idea of the soul in relation to the nature imagery in…
Can Freedmen Actually Emerge From Slavery?
From the middle of page 28 to the middle of page 29 in Chapter 2 of The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois succinctly describes a specific range of types of people who were impacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau and focuses on the freed slave as that was the duty of the Bureau. I argue…
truth in beauty standards and style, advertised.
In Houston A. Baker Jr.’s description of the strategies mastery of form and deformation of mastery, biological graphics and visualizations are used to explain how readers can distinguish one from the other. Specifically, he references H.B. Cott’s zoology categorizations and explains how animals with allaesthetic characteristics—biological masks that are induced to “enhance inclusive fitness”—are either…
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