Category: lillian e smith

+ brother ali, frank yerby, keri leigh merritt, lillian e smith, our faces, our words, run the jewels, w.e.b. dubois

Divide and Conquer: Part I

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I’ve always known that rhetoric, speech, and writing serve as weapons to sever communities or as tools to bring them together. Because of this, I know that individuals in power will use that weapon to keep individuals below separate through demonizing one group and promising hopes to the other. This has occurred throughout history, and in regard to race in America, it has occurred … Read More Divide and Conquer: Part I

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+ Elizabeth Austin, frank yerby, frantz fanon, gone with the wind, hbo max, Kimberely Nichele Brown, lillian e smith, margaret mitchell, naacp, paula snelling, walter white, white magnolias

Gone With the Wind and the Mythologized South

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Last week, John Ridley, Academy Award winner for adapted screenplay for 12 Years a Slave, spurred on calls fro HBO Max to remove David O Selznick’s film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind from its streaming service. Ridley points out that the film, “as part of the narrative of the ‘Lost Cause,’ romanticizes the Confederacy in a way that continues to give … Read More Gone With the Wind and the Mythologized South

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+ ananias, deeyah khan, george floyd, lillian e smith, norway, paul, saul, white right: meeting the enemy, white supremacy

Even Its Children Know . . .

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Over the past few weeks, we have seen protests throughout the nation and across the world speaking out out against police brutality and systemic racism and calling upon those in power and those not in power to listen and know that Black lives matter. One of these protests occurred in our county, a mostly Wonder Bread white county. At the protest, about 200 or … Read More Even Its Children Know . . .

+ cynical, hosea easton, lillian e smith, paula snelling, propaganda, sho baraka, white supremacy, william apess

The Narcissism of White Supremacy

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Every time I listen to Propaganda and Sho Baraka’s “Cynical,” new lines stick out to me. This time, the first few lines of Sho Baraka’s verse jumped out, mainly because of the ways they relate to a lot of my recent posts about the effects of racism on children, especially white children who imbibe racist ideas and white supremacy then regurgitate it, generation after … Read More The Narcissism of White Supremacy

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+ ernest j gaines, libguide, lillian e smith, Pedagogy

Lillian E. Smith Center LibGuide

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One of the things I enjoy doing is creating pedagogical materials for educators, students, and the general public. When I worked at the Ernest J. Gaines Center, I collaborated on the center’s LibGuide (library guide). In my position as the director of the Lillian E. Smith Center, I taken on a similar project constructing a LibGuide for Smith and some of her works. Today, … Read More Lillian E. Smith Center LibGuide

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