Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: A 19th Century Woman Writer Calling Out White Supremacist Patriarchy
Wuthering Heights (1847) is so brutal in its exposure of life in the white supremacist patriarchy...
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Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine (2020): Fact-Checking and Footnoting Her Own Pain – Women Writers on Writing
This book was hard to read. It is full of raw pain. I so appreciate Rankine’s willingness to...
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Memorials to the Victims of the Middle Passage: Listening to Woman Writer Toni Morrison
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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Women Writers on Writing – Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
In her book, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Woman Writer Toni...
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You say: “I’m #antiracist” but do you actually know what that means? Here are some highlights, in case you missed them….
So you say you are #antiracist. Are you ready to commit to what that means? This week’s post...
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers – They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
In her book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Stephanie...
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Angelina Grimké: Digging up the Weed of Racism by the Roots Out of Each of Our Hearts (American Woman Writer and Activist 1805-1879)
On February 21, 1838 when woman activist Angelina Grimké gave a speech before the state house in...
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Sofie Scholl: “Wake up! Resist! Sabotage!” Young Woman Activist, German (1921-1943)
“Isn’t it mysterious—and frightening, too, when one doesn’t know the reason—that everything should...
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