AADS/ENGL 3328.01
Black people are forced to relive the trauma of seeing someone that could have easily been their mother, brother, sister, or uncle be killed ruthlessly. To so frequently see Black life treated so callously on a regular basis, is the visual reinforcement of priming. Black pain and sorrow have become a mode of mainstream entertainment,…
Pregnancy can be defined as a critical moment in a woman’s life when they are arguably are considered the most feminine. One of the most basic and primal differences between men and women is a woman’s capacity to bear children and essentially create life. It’s something that happens every day but it’s a process cloaked…
Black joy is a form of resistance that gives agency to Black people in times where oppression and racism have tried to take away everything else. Stowe portrays an instance of black joy when she describes Uncle Tom’s cottage at the beginning of chapter 4. The cottage is first described as a “small log building”…