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Solitary Cypress, David L. Cooper
Solitary Cypress, David L. Cooper
David L Cooper
published in the summer solstice issue of Muse Magazine.
Grandfather Poem, David L. Cooper
Bajan Girl, David L. Cooper
From Karen To Keisha: The New Black Names, David L. Cooper
From Karen To Keisha: The New Black Names, David L. Cooper
David L Cooper
Shakespeare wrote: "A rose called by any other name would smell as sweet." What's in a name? Everything and nothing. When I first started teaching, over twenty years ago, most students had either family names or biblical names such as Rebecca, Anne, Carolyn, Andrew, John, or James. This was irrespective of race or class. For the most part black and white American students had the same names. Then, in the 1990s I started to see names that I had difficulty pronouncing, the spellings were not phonetic, and apostrophes appeared in strange places e.g. La'Tonya. Despite the nonstandard spellings the names …
Have You Been Saved?, David L. Cooper