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Tag Archives: Aunt Jemima
Revisiting _The Miseducation of the Negro_ This Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson’s seminal book, The Miseducation of the Negro, published in 1926, is a book Black folk should periodically revisit, perhaps every three years, ideally every year. If you are Black and you have not read the book, then … Continue reading
Posted in Education & Teaching, Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged 1619 Project, african-american, Aristotelian Logic, Aunt Jemima, Black history, Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Brown v. Board of Education, Candace Owens, Carter G. Woodson, Clarence Thomas, Classical Rhetoric, Compulsory Education Act (1852), culture, General Grammar, history, Jim Crow, Nicholas Capaldi, Plessy v. Ferguson, raising black boys, Russell Sage College, Slavery, The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Trivium, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Uncle Tom, writing
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Toni Morrison Slays Moby Dick
About this essay What happens when Toni Morrison reads Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick through the history of American racial ideology? Drawing on Morrison’s 1988 lecture, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken,” this essay considers the relationship between whiteness, literary interpretation, and the American canon—and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aunt Jemima, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, book-review, books, Candace Owens, Clarence Thomas, Herman Melville, horror, James Baldwin, January 6th, Kamala Harris, Many Thousands Gone, Moby-Dick, reading, Toni Morrison, Uncle Tom, Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The African American Presence in American Literature, W. E. B. Du Bois, writing
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Correcting The Miseducation of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson’s seminal book, The Miseducation of the Negro, published in 1926, is a book Black folk should periodically revisit, perhaps every three years, ideally every year. If you are Black and you have not read the book, then … Continue reading
Posted in Education & Teaching, Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged 1619 Project, Aristotelian Logic, Aunt Jemima, Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Brown v. Board of Education, Candace Owens, Carter G. Woodson, Clarence Thomas, Classical Rhetoric, Compulsory Education Act (1852), General Grammar, Jim Crow, Nicholas Capaldi, Plessy v. Ferguson, raising black boys, Russell Sage College, Slavery, The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Trivium, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Uncle Tom
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Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom Redux
In “Many Thousands Gone,” one of James Baldwin’s essays in Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin writes about white America’s favorite aunt and uncle, Jemima and Tom: “There was no one more forbearing than Aunt Jemima, no one stronger or … Continue reading