What’s in a Name? Why We Can’t ‘Just Forget’ About Slavery
A couple of weeks ago I saw a meme on Facebook saying that, because no one living today is or owned a slave, we should simply stop talking about chattel slavery of African-Americans before the Civil...
View ArticleI Am Not Your Latino
“If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.” James Baldwin We were discussing music in my seminar class and one of my students looked at another, both of them Latinos, and...
View ArticleAp –‘Is a Poet a Poet If Nobody’s Snapping?’
By Button Poetry . . Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:06 I’ve gotten into the routine of spending most nights 00:09 willing my poetry to be… 00:11 to be loud, to be boisterous, 00:14 to enter a...
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