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+ bitter root, chuck brown, comics, david f walker, ethnogothic, lillian e smith, P. Djèlí Clark, ring shout, sanford green

Johnnie-Ray Knox and The Hope in the Future

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In the last post, I wrote about the mother and son in P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout who finally see the monstrous effects of racism on an individual at the end of the novel. I taught Clark’s Ring Shout in my Multiethnic American Literature course a few weeks ago, and we followed up Clark’s novella with David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene’s Bitter … Read More Johnnie-Ray Knox and The Hope in the Future

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+ black reconstruction, bossier massacre, chuck brown, critical race theory, david f walker, frank yerby, intersectionality, religion, sanford green

Year in Round Up: Part I

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It’s that time of year again to talk about some of my favorite posts from 2020. Usually, I merely pull from my blog and discuss my top five favorite pieces; however, this time I’m going to cast a little wider net and talk about some of the pieces I published in other venues alongside posts from Interminable Rambling. A lot has happened in 2020, … Read More Year in Round Up: Part I

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+ bitter root, chuck brown, cyborg, david f walker, ethnogothic, John Jennings, sanford green, truth: red, white, and black

The Ethnogothic

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Recently, I finally had the chance to read all of David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Green’s Bitter Root vol. 1. In “Deep Roots/Rich Soil: Race, Horror and the Ethnogothic” (a back matter essay to Bitter Root), John Ira Jennings lays out what him and Stanford Carpenter call the “EthnoGothic,” a term I want to look at some today in relation to Bitter Root … Read More The Ethnogothic

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