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Abstract: after Nikki ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Lay the foundation for a bloody career of decapitating poultry and slicing the flesh of cows, pigs, and other livestock by being born Negro, in 1924, the second of seven children birthed in a misshapen, low-ceilinged, four-room house in Inkster, Michigan. You receive Lincoln Logs for Christmas when you are five and imagine designing a new house with cleaner lines and a higher ceiling that does not risk brushing your father’s head. Decide to become an architect.Grow up with other large families, all of them Black like you, on a street full of bicycles, tricycles, and scooters with wheels that are dirt-caked because Inkster streets will not be paved for another forty years. Walk the gravel streets on your way to ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Toni Ann Johnson won the Flannery O’Connor Award for her linked story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (October 2022), selected for the prize and edited by Roxane Gay. The book has also been nominated for a 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.Her novel, Remedy for a Broken Angel, released in 2014 was nominated for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. In 2020, Johnson’s novella Homegoing won Accents Publishing’s inaugural novella contest and was released in May 2021. She won the Missouri Review 2021 Miller Audio Prize for her story “Time Travel,” which is the final story in Light Skin Gone to Waste.Johnson is a two-time winner of the Humanitas Prize: first ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The way you carried on during the Pledge of Allegiance on your first day in class 5B, asking kids why I was the way I was and if that reason had happened in my mom’s womb, you must’ve thought I was deaf. But I wasn’t deaf. I just didn’t have any ears. And no, my mom wasn’t an alcoholic. She was naturally crazy.“Dog attack,” someone explained.“Oh,” you said. “That sucks.”“Shh!” I pressed a finger against my lips.The worst part about the attention from kids like you was when it ended. I didn’t like the ease with which you moved on from me, going from dog bites to flicking eraser bits off of your desk. You were new to the class and already you’d decided that I was old news.I didn’t talk at all during language arts. ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A deal with the devil doesn’t go rite. A deal with the devil stipulates a child. A poem burns like a dollar bill held by a child over a pentagram and red candles. Smoke attracts the gods. The gods bleed money. A spell is a key, like a protein activates a gene, like money opens an age of ore. Like a poem is a door unlocked with a key held by a child in the belly of a dragon. Get back to what you war. Akin is a space; home is a family. The world is a margin; a dancehall is a universe. A poem stands out like coral against the dark. Run your fingers across it, wet as film, reel as a beginning. Red as a sunrise and start again. A blast of crack smoke pours from the throat. Christ is here. What is money' A pelican on a ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “Speaking to the question of what makes us Belizean. We always refer to our nation as a melting pot, but we are not a melting pot. We are more like a Boil Up1, individuals in a pot that come together. We don’t necessarily melt into one another and become one common thing.”The 1-minute-and-32-second Belizean Belikin Beer commercial labeled “Heritage” begins with a long shot of Altun Ha Temple, a Maya site located north of Belize City, while traditional-sounding Maya music plays in the background. The moss-covered temple in the frame is one of Belize’s most visited tourist attractions, and the iconography of Altun Ha has further been interpolated as the official image of Belikin, situating the company locally and ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In her latest novel, Let Us Descend (2023), African American writer and two-time winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Jesmyn Ward takes the reader back in space and time to the deep South and the gruesome history of American slavery. The novel focuses on Annis, a teenage enslaved teenage girl, who recounts her harrowing journey from the rice fields of North Carolina to the sugarcane fields of Louisiana after being sold by the man who raped her mother and fathered her. Chained and exhausted, Annis, together with a group of other enslaved individuals, marches for days to reach the slave markets of New Orleans. Once sold, Annis starts another journey of horror, torture, and pain, but also friendship ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Réunion Island, formerly known as Bourbon, was one of France’s “old colonies”—four territories acquired during the Ancien Régime, in the first stages of French colonialism.1 The colonial history of Réunion was marked by the absence of an Indigenous population, as the island was uninhabited at the time of French settlement in 1663. The organization of social and geographic space was largely a result of the plantation economy. European masters and landowners coexisted with African and Malagasy slaves, and later with Indian indentured workers, brought in to work in the plantations. Through the technology of “race,” an increasingly rigid hierarchy was established between different ethnic groups present on the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: My cousin’s death preceded my grandmother’s by twenty-six years. At least that’s what the official records say. But if you asked anyone—from a distant relative to the village gossip—they would say with certainty that the beautiful young child and the stoic old lady died at the very same time. They would assert this as an established fact, for no one can forget the day of their dying.And as sure as they are to insist on this plain truth, they will just as certainly use beautiful as the first word to describe Chantal. Whether you asked men, women, young or old, everyone agreed: Chantal was just as beautiful as her mother, Cynthia. As a child, I had always been fascinated by Cynthia, my mother’s much younger sister. ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the first edition of The Black Jacobins, C. L. R. James tells of the extraordinary irony in the cry of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” that echoed across Paris at the end of the eighteenth century. As James stresses, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen did not apply to all men (nor women). As revolution took hold on the continent, the question of liberty, equality, and fraternity rang hollow back in Haiti as the enslaved, formerly enslaved, and their descendants were denied liberty, equality, and fraternity through a bloody campaign of terror by the colonials and the initial reticence or disdain on behalf of those fighting for liberty back in France. As his second edition makes clear, James ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Nnedi returned home seven years after her own death. She arrived on foot with the sun rising behind her, luminous and deep orange in a lilac sky. Her mother Kainebi was already awake and tending to the back garden of her cottage when she heard what sounded like thunder in the distance. But this was not the season for thunder or rain or anything that came down from the sky except sunbeams and moonlight dappled by a haze of dust. She registered this deep rumbling as an omen as Nnedi knocked loudly three times.Kainebi was not expecting a guest, and certainly not her daughter whose bones she had buried years ago. So, when she opened the door to find Nnedi standing on her porch, wearing the delicate cream lace gown she ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-05:00