Author: lila.belsher

Throughout the novel Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo Ntozake Shange illustrates the lives of three sisters who work to achieve their dream lives as African-American women in Charleston, South Carolina. While the mother encourages her daughters to pursue education, hopeful that it is a path to marriage and happiness, each of them ends up following different…

For this assignment, I chose the music video/song “This Is America” by Childish Gambino. This piece of music, as well as the video, draws attention to the gun violence towards black people in America. The video reveals provocative imagery of Donald Glover as he guns down a choir at one point and dances while violence…

The proposition of motherhood is brought to the story line consistently throughout the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. However, Stowe’s depiction of being a mother through the lens of a white woman, and being a mother through the lens of a black woman during the times of slavery, are obviosuly incredibly distant…