Scholars of black/white social relations often cite Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks for its psychological analysis of the "Fact of Blackness." Attributing this supposed facticity to a fundamental mistranslation of the original French text, this thesis explores the implications of scholar's ...
"Kojeve and Fanon: The Desire for Recognition and the Fact of Blackness." In French Civilization and Its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race, edited by Tyler Stovall and Van Den Georges Abbeele, 115-28. New York: Lexington Books, 2003.Ethan Kleinberg. "Kojeve and Fanon: The Desire...
I was something of a football player, but I had never been a good player, in fact far less a great one. To be frank, I played for the mere physical joy that I got out of the game, but I played with a will, and put my whole heart into the game. I had plenty of energy and...
(In reality, of course, having dark skin has nothing to do with being "sun-burnt"; Blake is trying to make a point with his imagery here, rather than a scientific argument about skin color.) The mother’s story concludes with the idea that identity is only temporary—blackness or ...
to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me --while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to whi...
Of course I thought that must have been a joke. I saw the cleaning woman every day. She was short and about 50 years old. She had dark hair. But how could I know her name? I had never talked with her before. In fact, I’d never even thought about talking to her. I looked at...
Experiences of structural racism such as police brutality are based on being perceived as Black. However, Blackness is not the only, and not necessarily the hegemonic source of self for those who either place themselves in the group or are ascribed belonging to the group. Using Blackness as an...
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In fact, there’s an article at the link below which even claimed that “Show, Don’t Tell” Is the Great Lie of Writing Workshops”. http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/there-are-no-rules/why-show-dont-tell-is-the-great-lie-of-writing-workshops Reply Jack Strandburg on ...
She would have been pleased to know that she became every teacher’s favorite student after the fact. They named the gymnasium for her and celebrated her birthday every year with a pep rally.She used to be such a good student, someone would reminisce.How could that have happened to her?