...Shanna Greene Benjamin Abstract Little more than a decade after publishing Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison published “Out of the Hospital and under the Bar” (1963): an excised chapter of the novel that portrayed Mary Rambo—a black woman represented stereotypically in the published manuscript...

... Wallace's book exposed sexism in the Black community generally, and presented a formidable critique of the gender politics of Black Power ideology. The book dealt with twin stereotypes of the African American man and woman: Black macho,the image of the hypersexualized Black man that was, according...

... to become no more than overseer on the white man’s plantation, of his own children. Indicative of the social pathologies that Walker dissects within her trilogy, husbands who are trapped—economically, spiritually, and physically—victimize their wives, deeming them what Audre Lorde calls “illegitimate...

..., and hate crimes; and an ongoing campaign in solidarity with Lucio Peréz, an undocumented Guatemalan man who defied deportation and took sanctuary at a local congregation. 24 To read the resolution and the meeting minutes from that Northampton City Council meeting, visit https://www.northamptonma.gov...

... in a “man's” profession. Lewis found the fortitude to take up the challenge and, along with several other women (all white), demonstrated the capacity to produce extraordinary marble sculptures. Lewis's burden was twofold. In addition to her gender, her race presented unique obstacles, especially to those who...

...Min Young Godley Abstract The awarding of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize to Deborah Smith’s English translation of The Vegetarian brought global recognition to emergent Korean literature, but domestically it has sparked outrage among numerous Korean scholars who believe the literal...

... or disrespectful. Simultaneously, in her claim of being “de ruffest gal winer” that no man/woman can test, Hinds's own dance performance becomes a subversive text and not merely dance as aesthetic pleasure. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 JENNIFER THORINGTON SPRINGER "RollIt Gal" AlisonHinds...

...Zoe Spencer Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 Black women resistance lynching police brutality Black Lives Matter Say Her Name If I were a man They’d be hashtagging my name and calling me a martyr Celebrating my resistance as the ultimate stand Against State power I’d...

... name given away in marriage From one man to one man, a white man, sacrosanct It was a large plantation worked by men who could not pay their debts Magnolias, gardenias, tea roses, monkey grass, and lilies Hired by a man, a gentleman who could not find “help” the easy way His reputation so...

... the carousel with the other, someone said, "Please, allow me." The warm voice belonged to the man standing next to her. Kate turned toward the voice. The man smiled gallantly, reaching for the bag. She inspected the suitcase briefly and saw that it was not hers. KATIA D. ULYSSE KADO 127 "Keep looking...

... relationsand moral conduct; they includehow to: "washwhite clothes," "plant dasheen," "throw awaya child,"and "bullya man." Readersof"Girl" often observea fictional representation of the double-edgedtendenciesof child-rearingpractices in manyCaribbeansocieties:as the adult speaker providesguidelines for living...

... on the part of many. The System of capitalism (and its afterbirth racism) under which we all live, has attempted by many devious ways and means to destroy the humanity of all people, and particularly the humanity of black people. This has meant an outrageous assault on every black man, woman, and child who...

...Cathy Song Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 PEACEFULLY, CathySong ON THE WINGS OF FORGIVENESS a man takes into his hands his wife's injured foot, gnarled as a ginger root by years of wearing the wrong shoes. Poor-grade cowhide from Brazil, fictive leather's friction...

... and their rituals. The Christian Bible's Book of Genesis says that God made man in His image, thus planting the seed offemale disadvantage, the impairment and nullification offemale identity. "Allreligious fundamentalists," pursues el Saadawi, "be they Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, share similar views about...

... of the nostalgia for a lost African past results in the fantastic space of Antilles-Africa, which demands a reality in which the dream of unknown places complements the lived experience of the local—in short, a reality of diaspora. For all his flaws, Césaire’s ( 2009 , 66) plant-man is in some ways...

... this cultural technology? The same answer applies to all three questions: the White colonizers who are claimed to be the only humans, the modern Man, the sole species on Earth to have undergone self-evolution and successfully achieve both civilizational modernity and biological humanness. Wynter’s analysis...

...-reciprocated oral sex. In the patriarchal imagination the passive sexual partner, the woman, "sucks" the man's "dick," demonstrating the dominance of the male. However, this masculinist rhetoric is tempered by her articulation of her position in female culture, her possession of the woman's touch, as the basis...

..., the man you love today may be educated in Europe, but his mother, his sister, could be the ruin of you at some point. Even an intellectuel man is an instinctive being. So, get that certificate before anything, even if the groom’s family doesn’t demand it. Get it. Fold it or frame it. Trust me...