When Indigo confesses to Uncle John that she does not want to stop talking to her dolls, he introduces her to a “new talkin’ friend” (p. 22). Uncle John eases the transition for Indigo from leaving childhood and entering womanhood. He understands her troubles with the “real folks & all their evil complicated ways of…
Author: Sarah-Lisa H.
The “Pet” System As Role-play
In Section II of Zora Neale Hurston’s “The “Pet Negro” System,” she explains the concept of white people, particularly those from the South, who support their “pet negroes”, while still aggressively holding on to their white supremacy ideals. Hurston argues that the difficulty in changing the Southern state of mind lies in the fact that…
Harriet Jacobs: The Play Versus The Book
Both The Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Ann Jacobs and Harriet Jacobs (2011) by Lydia R. Diamond intend to illustrate the life of a black slave woman, but both use different techniques in doing so. The play relies on its audience’s reaction to the plot of the play and…
Does Science Fiction Have The Answer?
The science fiction genre allows us to conceptualize a world where we can predict the different outcomes of getting rid of an entire race through the means of advanced technologies. The science fiction genre, thereby acts as a vehicle to introduce the greater ideas about what the country would lack by losing an entire racial…
Post Challenge 1: Switching Race In Seconds
BuzzFeedVideo. “People React To FaceApp’s Racial Face Filter.” YouTube, YouTube, 10 Aug. 2017, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDpmrNSZ_No . In this video, people are reacting to an app that allows people to add filters to their faces. It allows the user to see their faces when they are old, young, or the opposite gender. A new update though claimed to…
To Send Or Not To Send Their Child Into The Battlefield Of Life Behind The Veil.
In Chapter 11, “Of the Passing of the First-Born”, Du Bois strays from the distanced essays and shares a personal narrative. Du Bois recalls the infant passing of his child, and offers an insight into the conflicting thoughts of both a father and black American. In his recitation of the child’s short life, he focuses…
Importance of Religion
Henry Box Brown was taught religion from the day he was born. Even when he was only a young child, he was fully aware of the pain that tormented his mother and the other adult slaves around him. Henry establishes that this pain was more emotional due to the constant reminder of not being considered…
Sarah H. – False Fear
Houston Baker debates the both the mastery of form and subsequent deformation of mastery. Baker uses examples from nature to illustrate the necessity of mastering form in order to blend in for survival purposes. Through submitting to the previously established notions of normalcy and what is expected, one decreases their chances of being victimized in…
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