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The question was posed as to whether Delly embodies a “disruption of normative discourses”. Frankly, I don’t like this question. Perhaps I’m misreading it but to me it places too much agency on a character who […]

I was aware of some of the complex issues within the black community regarding homosexuality and “deviancy”, but I had never read a story or watched anything that outlined the fear and hatred associated with it. […]

After Reading the Kelly Brown Douglas’ article, I believe that her main argument is that the viciousness of black homophobia can largely be attributed to white cultures sexual perception of black people and w […]

Prompt 3: I really enjoyed watching the documentary “All God’s Children” and learning about LGBTQ communities within Black churches–especially the Lavender Light gospel group and the personal experiences of […]

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In “Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community,” Kelly Brown Douglas “outline[s] the general contours of [Black homophobia] as it seeks to understand the re […]

I (Maud) thought the article and short film were both very interesting, and shed light on a topic that I wasn’t all too familiar with prior to reading and watching this material. One of the points in the article t […]

Prompt One

Kelly Brown Douglas’s “Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community” analyzes some of the causes of Black homophobia and argues that the Black community needs to confront its homop […]

Question 2
That extra information provided changes how I think about Hughes’s story “Blessed Assurance”  a lot. As someone who has very little experience with religion (other than the one night a year at a co […]

The main argument of the chapter titled “Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community” by Kelly Brown Douglas is that homophobia is a subject that the Black community must confront. Douglas argues […]

Learning of the interpretations of the story of Ruth and Naomi in the bible the song written by the choir director takes a different meaning. Initially when reading the story, I thought that maybe the comment made […]

Prompt TwoTo begin with, it is interesting that despite the hints at Delmar’s “effeminacy,” there is no explicit indication that he is actually gay. The story is simply John’s perceptions of what a man should and […]

No need to comment on classmates’s posts here online but be sure to post your own  response to TWO of the prompts below by Thursday between 9:45 am and 11:05 am! Give your one post a clever title and add images […]

China's New LeftBy Pankaj Mishra of New York Times One day earlier this year I met Wang Hui at the Thinker’s Cafe near Tsinghua University in Be […]

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Aaron Coleman’s dissection of this shipwreck and the way he not only describes it but, but places the reader within the environment is impressive. Detail by detail he crafts an image and a sensory experience that […]

American Football was very interesting to me. The line “I wanted to be a trophy before I wanted to be a man” hits at a point seldom made in American sports. Especially at the professional level, the vast majority […]

In the poem  “A Fire She Loved”, Aaron Coleman depicts a woman getting drunk on whiskey and reflecting back to her job of feeding people. Coleman shows that this woman prioritizes drinking as it was “Heavier an […]

I first learned about the art of translation from working under Prof. Bourne. I think Coleman described my understanding of it well. It’s that he could walk away from a translation more easily than his own work […]