Tag: american dream

+ american dream, christian fascism, christian nationalism, christianity, cursive, emo, Happy Hollow, music

The Importance of Cursive’s “Happy Hollow” Almost 20 Years Later

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I don’t remember when I actually found Cursive. All I know is that I had a copy of their debut album Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes. I probably picked it up because that was around the time I found out about Mineral and other bands on Crank! Records. I played Cursive’s debut a lot, especially the first two songs “After the Movies” and “Downhill Racers.” It sounded … Read More The Importance of Cursive’s “Happy Hollow” Almost 20 Years Later

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+ african american literature, american dream, ann petry, lutie johnson, social protest novel, the street

The American Dream in Ann Petry’s “The Street”: Part I

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Like a lot of the texts that I teach in my classes, I hadn’t read Ann Petry’s The Street before I assigned it in this semester’s Multicultural American Literature course. The only work, up to this point, that I had read from Petry was her short story “Like a Winding Sheet.” A few years back, Keith Clark started talking to me about The Street, … Read More The American Dream in Ann Petry’s “The Street”: Part I

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