AADS/ENGL 3328.01
As I began to work on our final project for this class I found myself repeatedly wanting to turn to Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing. Lee plays the main character Mookie, a young, black delivery guy at the local pizzeria owned by Sal–an Italian-American. It takes place on one block in the…
In her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs grapples with her violent past –namely the sexual abuse she experiences at the hand of her master, Dr. Flint–in hopes that it will educate her white readers about the pervasive damage that slavery causes. In Chapter V, “The Trials of Girlhood,” Jacobs…
“The Adoration of the Magi” (late 1750s) by Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It depicts the Nativity scene in which wise men and shepherds come to pay respects and offer gifts to the newborn baby. Many of the characters in the painting have their…
It challenges ideas of masculinity especially in the American west as well as the stereotypes of a gay man “should be” or “act like”.
In Chapter XVI, Stowe delves into the mind of Marie St. Clare. In contrast to other white female characters in the novel–Mrs. Shelby, Ophelia St. Clare, and even little Eva–Marie does not stand as a moral or compassionate figure. In fact, Marie is racist and self-centered. Her character represents the stereotype of wealthy southerners, living…