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Black Boy:The Formulation of Richard Wright’s idea of “Black Power”
*I presented this essay at the American Literature Association Conference in May of 2025 Before college, I hated reading. In high school, I was only exposed to specific literature written by a specific type of author. In English classes, we read the works of Hemingway, Hawthorne, and Faulkner. All these authors have two things in…
Bucked:Black Suffering in Graduate School
All Praise to Allah in Every Situation Buck breaking was a public punishment of an enslaved Black man. Often sexual assault accompanied this display of antiBlack violence enacted by white slave masters. Buck breaking was meant to emasculate the enslaved man. It brought the enslaved man shame, embarrassment, and a blow to their manhood. Buck…
Beauty Felt
Beauty. Beauty, what is it? Is beauty just a sense of sight? Is beauty something we only imagine? Is beauty something we only dream of? The antonym of beauty is ugliness. And there sure is a lot of ugliness in the world. Ugliness can prevent us from seeing beauty. We think we need to see…
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