Life. Feminism. Pop Culture.
You all know that I LOVE me some Their Eyes Were Watching God. A couple of weeks ago, Mark Anthony Neal posted a piece about Tea Cake as an Imagined Black Feminist Manhood. I like the idea of taking Tea Cake for this purpose. However, I was … [Continue reading]
Harry Brod's essay "Studying Masculinities" has some straight ahead information on teaching and understanding masculinity. I reread it last night and was reminded of how good it is. I am going to post excerpts below, with some comments. On … [Continue reading]
If you correct my English I might curse you out, give you a side eye, or a simple blank stare. If I am not at work,? I don't speak standard English. It is not what is most comfortable to me. Last year, on one of my blog posts cross posted on … [Continue reading]
Driving over to the Celebration in Black Writing festival in Philly on Saturday, I noticed that a party was happening on the sidewalk in front of a apartment building. The host point out, driving down Diamond street in South Philly, that the … [Continue reading]
Publishers Weekly cover from Dec 2009 The other day I was reading an interview with Ishmael Reed and he said some things about Black fiction that got me to thinking.? The interview was with Jill Nelson for his new book, "Barack Obama and the Jim … [Continue reading]