[…] the Disinherited. Among Thurman’s key insights is his concept of the inward sea, or soul. As a Black man growing up in the segregated American South, Thurman is no stranger to oppression and race-based […]
[…] particularly good: they are small scale and blurred around the margin. Further, although they pick up the black ink, they often fail completely on the red ink (the “rubrics”). The sections of Document B […]
[…] the homes of our colored (Negro) members of record! And when Church members translate whatever sanction a black skin imposes within the Church into their daily lives and will not (for instance) sell a […]
[…] working on the case of the fellow from the trailer court who had given his wife a black eye. The wife had decided not to press charges, which didn’t please Leanne. She figured he […]
[…] the accident she had tried anger, tried it on as though it were a tailored suit in black. How well could her elbows bend in order to cut a person dead, for instance? How […]
[…] spun the wool for his jeans, gathered the kinnikinnic bark, and mixed the logwood for dyeing them black. She had knitted his gray socks, sulphur bleached and braided the straw for his side-brimmed Enoch […]
[…] When I saw his padded breasts quivering as he drummed, I averted my eyes to the bold black strokes on the cloth which hung from below his navel. How could he ever run or […]
[…] there. It never was. My dad buys me a new beach cruiser and suggests that I get black, instead of red, so it won’t draw attention as easy. This I do, and am happy […]
[…] of Connie Huntington, a lithe little gymnast who inherited her father’s poker face and her mother’s bewitching black hair. Noticing her noticing him, Andrew claps his hand over his mouth in mock horror and […]
[…] burned them at the ends of coat hangers. But for four years now it had been a black and empty cavity, a symbol of lost life. But next winter, he knew, next winter . […]