continuities in North African perceptions of racial difference and hierarchy‚ so that despite the enslavement of many different groups‚ and the possibility for the child of a male master and an enslaved woman to inherit or attain a high social status‚ "blackness" came to be associated with servitude. At the
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In Amy Plum’s Sci-Fi novel After the End‚ two enemies combine forces to carry out their own list of goals. The character vs. fate conflict directly affects‚ the protagonist‚ Juneau‚ because everything she has ever known was taken away from her. When Juneau’s remote Alaskan tribe is captured‚ she is left alone in brand new world to her. Juneau’s upbringing in her tribe taught her that her tribe was the only group of people left in the world‚ however as Juneau progresses on her journey to find her
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The Amitto I lay on cold hard ground‚ trying to recover my bearings. I push myself up‚ the gash in my left leg hurting like never before. Nevertheless‚ I continue into the blackness‚ deeper into the woods. I run‚ and run‚ and run‚ farther into the veil of darkness that encompasses me. It feels like I have been running for months now‚ but still I endeavor. The only thing that guides me is the pale light from the full moon‚ shining like a glimmering opal in the sky. I don’t remember how I got here;
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According to Michelle Alexander‚ mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America today. That is to say‚ being black connotes being a criminal and being a criminal is a contemporary “code word” for being black. The new Jim Crow evolved as a rebranded way to deal with race in America or as Alexander put it‚ an adaptation to the demands of the current political climate. It is perfectly legitimate in this day and age to discriminate against criminals just as it was to explicitly discriminate
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her breasts are huge exciting anchors in the midnight storm. All this has been before in my mother’s bed time has no sense I have no brothers and my sisters are cruel. Mother I need mother I need mother I need your blackness now as the august earth needs rain. I am the sun and moon and forever hungry the sharpened edge where day and night shall meet and not be one. Share this text ...?Twitter Twitter Pinterest Pinterest Audre Lorde‚ “From
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The Alberta Journal of Educational Research Vol. 54‚ No. 3‚ Fall 2008‚ 272-282 Erica Neegan Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto Constructing My Cultural Identity: A Reflection on the Contradictions‚ Dilemmas‚ and Reality This article provides a critical reflective analysis of my life growing up in Jamaica where I attended colonial school‚ to making the transition to high school in the Canadian context. I examine the elements that have influenced my cultural/racial
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metaphors to show the results of pollution. McGough shows us images of darkness‚ sickness‚ death and artificial life. There is so much rubbish in the lake that the water is not clean and clear anymore. It no longer reflects the moonlight but “the blackness of its own depths”. Even the nature around the lake has been destroyed. The fish have died and the grass has “withered”‚ the trees “lean away from it” and “birds steer clear”. Worst of all‚ the people are now afraid that the lake is full of diseases
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Confusion filled my face as I watched them cry‚ then laugh‚ then sigh heavily‚ then cry some more. It was the same thing every time we came to visit. I asked Katie‚ my sister‚ and Bailey‚ my cousin‚ “what’s so great about boys?” they responded with the most irritating phrase to a nine year old; “you’ll understand when you’re older.” They would talk for hours about how amazing boys were‚ and then about how awful they were. I did not understand it. As I tagged along with Katie and Bailey to the Prescott
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Imani Perry begins her essay by giving us insight about her encounter with Princeton police and how she was treated and felt afterward. Imani Perry is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and was arrested a couple weeks ago by the Princeton‚ New Jersey police for a three-year-old parking ticket‚ which generated controversy in her social media between those who see it as an example of racist behavior and others who believe it was an overreaction to a minor incident. According
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of embodiment and Black identities‚ transnational skin bleaching‚ African feminist theory‚ and critical media literacy. Dr. Blay is the recipient of a 2010 Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant through which she will publish The Other Side of Blackness‚ a portrait documentary exploring the intersection of skin color politics and negotiations of Black identity. Abstract The cosmetic use of chemical agents to lighten the complexion of one’s skin‚ also referred to as skin whitening‚ skin lightening
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