in particular the line of...One of surefire ways of avoiding victimhood isasking for what you need. This, can be a tremendously difficult thing to do, simply because you make yourself vulnerable to being rejected. That being said, as a tool for getting out of victim hood thinking, I have begun to ask people for things with I need. For [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman’
The Failure of the Strong Black Woman
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Michelle Wallace and Illmatic
Thursday, December 25th, 2008The World Is Yours (Remix) Rare is the person who can conceptualize the hood,in all its pain, beauty and promise. Two pieces that do this are Nas’s Illmatic andMichele Wallaces, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.Whats strikes me about both pieces is that they illicit anemotional response. In addition, Black Macho is particularlymoving [...]
The Silence of Black Women Writers
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Black writers are a cursed lot. By its virtue of its origin, suture and function, black writing ismission conscious and is necessarily a hazardous undertaking. In turn being a black writer is an enobiling, exigency and black literature constitutes one of the supreme enrichment’s of black culture and black life. This has been and is [...]
