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When Language Fails: A Critical Analysis Essay Of Kathryn Stockett’S The Help:, Evan Mccreary

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A critical analysis essay of Kathryn Stockett's New York Times Bestselling book, The Help, and it's subsequent film adaptation, and how in recent years, particularly following the murder of George Floyd, the story has been used as a classroom tool for teaching students about racism and its effects. Written by a Black student in a primarily white school community, this essay was written as an antithesis to the ideology that the book and movie exceed their intended intentions of being a beneficial teaching tool to youth.

Sweat Equity: Lynn Nottage's Radical Dialectic Of Deindustrialization, Jocelyn L. Buckner

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"Lynn Nottage has devoted her career to researching and telling stories of Black individuals and communities with expressed interest in laborers, advocating for their agency, humanity, and legacy. In her second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, Nottage dramatizes more recent US history, illuminating the lives of workers marginalized by the deindustrialization of the Rust Belt in the early 2000s. Sweat is emblematic of Nottage's sustained effort to deploy playwriting as activism and stand in solidarity with those whose stories she chooses to tell. As a constant theme in her works, Lynn Nottage's stories align with marginalized workers' efforts and histories, …

Pecan Grove Review Volume 21, St. Mary's University

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Annual Faculty Research Symposium 2022, Oakwood University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 20, St. Mary's University

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Treading The Winepress; Or, A Mountain Of Misfortune, Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen, Gabrielle Brown, Eric Willey, Jean Macdonald

Undiscovered Americas

“Every life hath its chapter of sorrow. No matter how rich the gilding or fair the pages of the volume, Trouble will stamp it with his sable signet.”

So begins the novel Treading the Winepress; or, A Mountain of Misfortune by Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen, which, had it appeared in book form in 1885–1886 instead of serialized in The Boston Advocate, would have been the second novel published by a black woman in the United States. Instead, Allen has been mostly forgotten by literary history. Now, thanks to the painstaking efforts of editors Gabrielle Brown, Eric Willey, and Jean …

Pecan Grove Review Volume 19, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 18, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 17, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 16, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 15, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 14, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 13, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 12, St. Mary's University

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Autobiography And African American Women’S Literature, Joanne M. Braxton

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 11, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 10, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 9, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 8, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 7, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 6, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 5, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 4, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 3, St. Mary's University

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Symbolic Geography And Psychic Landscapes: A Conversation With Maya Angelou, Joanne M. Braxton

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 2, St. Mary's University

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Pecan Grove Review Volume 1, St. Mary's University

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