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...
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...