A great piece of advice I learned early in my college career was that “every –ism is not a noun but a verb, and we are either constantly doing or undoing that action.” Feminism is an active verb. Classism is too. Most of all, so is racism. In this way, the beliefs and thoughts that… Continue reading Black Literature Matters
I’ve been reading a lot of protest and enlightenment literature for my class on African-American writing. We started the semester with Ta-Nehisi Coates and continued through Johnson, Hurston, and Du Bois. I’ll admit that some of the earlier traditions of the canon didn’t really catch my attention that strongly, but that all changed with Wright’s… Continue reading “What They Hate Me For”: Native Son by Richard Wright
This is not an easy book to read. And I don’t say that as if it’s written by an obscure nineteenth-century scholar or as if it’s written entirely in Latin—I say that because it is hard to hear the truth, and that is what this book is. Between the World and Me is a poignant… Continue reading “This Terrible and Beautiful World”: Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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