Excerpt: Language Discrimination in American Classrooms: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Relations
Wealthy, educated, northern, white individuals have maintained a position of power in the American public school system from its very...
Reading Reflection: The Effects of Housing Inequality on Dreams in Urban Mid-Century America in Lorr
As I was re-reading Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, I was reminded of Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “kitchenette building” which is...
Deviance in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima
The sociology of deviance is useful in understanding Antonio Marez in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima within the larger context of...
Reflection: On Being a Woman in the Western Literary Tradition in Recognition of My White Privilege
As an English literature major in college, I spent nearly half a decade of my life studying literature of the English language written...
Confession: Author's Note to "Language Discrimination in American Classrooms..."
"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." -James 5:16 “Ah done growed ten feet...
Becoming Black: Using W.E.B. DuBois' Concept of Double Consciousness to Explore the Lives and Wo
In his work The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois explores what he considers the greatest problem of the 20th century: “the problem of...
Sins and Ghosts: The Forbidden Strories of Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" and
Both Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman” and Toni Morrison’s Beloved use story to give a voice to the silenced and forgotten “needy...