Ironically, when Southworth's work is mentioned at all in the literary histories of the twentieth century, it is often as an example of plantation fiction, that genre of novels developed by the antebellum South as a defense of slavery-an institution that Southworth abhorred. Probably no issue was of more concern for Southworth than slavery many of her early works are overtly abolitionist novels arguing for the dismantlement of the slave system in the South. In some sense, The Hidden Hand should be seen as an anomaly among Southworth's works, many of which assume explicit positions on issues of the author's day. A major reason for this difficulty is that The Hidden Hand, the novel for which Southworth has been best known in the twentieth century, certainly seems apolitical-a comic novel full of sensational twists, melodramatic reunions, and stereotypical supporting characters and lacking the ardent polemics and authorial addresses of the more typical political novels of the 1850s. Southworth (1819-1899) have often been difficult for contemporary scholars to observe. The political commitments of nineteenth-century novelist E.
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Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans-the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers-Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders.Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic-an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing Sing, Unburied, Sing and The Water Dancer-that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. But she needs some time away from her life and past, and this is the perfect opportunity. She remembers him fondly from her childhood, even though in the last few years he hasn’t really been in touch. So when I stumbled into this book – which was not on my radar initially – I though I had found a new horror in which to sink my teeth.īram is going to Louth in the middle of a snowstorm to live for some time with her uncle James. If you’ve been here for a while, you might have noticed that I have a weird fascination for this kind of stories, especially if the atmosphere is well realised. 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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 313,638 ratings, 4.40 average rating, 28,474 reviews Between the World and Me Quotes Showing 1-30 of 968 But race is the child of racism, not the father. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates' journey, is visceral, eloquent and beautifully redemptive. Coates offers this eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son's life.this moving, potent testament might have been titled Black Lives Matter.' Kirkus Reviews (starred) 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. 'The powerful story of a father's past and a son's future. “Oh shit!” Since I’d been the one to coldcock him, I raced on ahead to explain. 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I speak for the mass of others ground down by an economic system that cares more for profit than for people. I speak for the people enslaved, forced to labor on the narcos’ ranches, forced to fight. I speak for the dead children, shot in crossfires, murdered alongside their parents, ripped from their mothers’ wombs. I speak for the orphans, twenty thousand of them, for the children who have lost both or one parent, whose lives will never be the same. I speak for the tortured, burned, and flayed by the narcos, beaten and raped by the soldiers, electrocuted and half-drowned by the police. For the poor, the powerless, the disenfranchised for the victims of this so-called “war on drugs,” for the eighty thousand murdered by the narcos, by the police, by the military, by the government, by the purchasers of drugs and the sellers of guns, by the investors in gleaming towers who have parlayed their “new money” into hotels, resorts, shopping malls, and suburban developments. I raise my voice and wave my arms and shout for the ones you do not see, perhaps cannot see, for the invisible. “FOR THE VOICELESS by El Niño Salvaje I speak for the ones who cannot speak, for the voiceless. With age-appropriate humor and insight, veteran teacher Reynolds offers advice aimed at assisting young people as they trek through the minefield that is middle school. Readers will learn to find their own voice, begin to explore their genuine identity, and definitely laugh out loud along the way. Now, for the first time a nonfiction guide to middle school offers that same funny and relatable voice, while skillfully teaching life lessons to not just help kids find their footing during the tough years between elementary and high school, but to find the joy in their new adventures and challenges.Īuthor and teacher Luke Reynolds uses irreverent humor, genuine affection for middle schoolers, and authenticity that bubbles over as he ties real-life experiences from his own time in middle school to the experiences he has from his many years as a teacher.Ĭovering topics like bullying, peer pressure, grades, dealing with difficult parents, and love and romance, this rare book reaches kids at a deeper level during an age when they are often considered too young to appreciate it. Middle grade series like The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries bring an authentic voice and vision to fiction about middle schoolers. In this hilarious guide full of honest, real-life experiences, veteran teacher Luke Reynolds skillfully and humorously shows kids how to not only survive, but thrive and even enjoy the wild adventure that is middle school. |