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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Who owns you? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
The poem “Mistress stella speaks,” by Tyehimba Jess is about a mistress who is owned and is taken advantage of. The first thing that I noticed from the poem was the title. The mistress’s name is not capitalized […]
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post Social Media today vs. Dick and Jane in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
The Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends by William S. Gray is a book that proposes the idea of a perfect household and family as I’ve stated in a recent blog post.
Dick and Jane:
“Here is the […]
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post What it is like… in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
Mid-way of the second stanza in the poem “What Would I Do White?” by June Jordan, Jordan paints an image of what it would be like to live like a white person and how she would act.
She says:
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post Possession of reality in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
According to The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks, withholds two definitions ” 1. the action or fact of possessing or the condition of being possessed. 2. the holding or having of something as one’s own, or being […]
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post Are you mocking me? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
If you have ever experienced having an annoying sibling or have a friend mock you, at home or in a public setting, I am sure you know how it feels when you realize that there is a limit to jokes like those. Some […]
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post Hate and Humor in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
James Arthur Snead was a man who studied English, European fiction and taught courses on modernism and German literature at Yale University.
According to YAMP (Yale Aids Memorial Project), various students and […]
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post Masks keep you safe in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
According to the context of W.E.B Du Bois’ story, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” African Americans have been, “born with a veil, and gifted with with a second sight in this American world,— a world which yields […]
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post Why would a person of color hold a grudge against a white person? in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Before answering the question titled for this blog post, I would first like to define some key terms and answer some questions for you:
Human
According to the biology online dictionary:
“Humans are the […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Importance of African American literature in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, African American literature is defined as a “body of literature written by Americans of African descent.”
Before, taking any classes in college I did not know […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post COLORED ONLY in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
In Jackson, Mississippi, 1961, there was a signed ordered by the police stating “WAITING ROOM FOR COLORED ONLY” in hospitals and medical centers to segregate between the blacks and whites. According to “Civil […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Second-line and Sanctus in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Dr. McCoy offered an extra credit opportunity to the class about a month ago. This entitled us to meet Steve Prince, an artist from New Orleans who creates charcoal art depicting a blend of his African American […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Why do we play the race card with children? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Let Black Kids Just Be Kids says that “People of all races see black children as less innocent, more adult-like and more responsible for their actions than their white peers.”
Not My Bone’s by Marilyn Nelson s […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post 7,000 bodies deep in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Beneath the southern surface of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, 7000 bodies were found. According to “Up To 7,000 Bodies Found Buried Beneath University Of Mississippi Medical Center” about 80 years […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Poverty epidemic in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Poverty is the state of being poor or the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount
Throughout the semester, all of the novels and articles that we’ve discussed relate to poverty. The […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post American Ignorance about under-developing countries in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
There are several misconceptions that Americans have toward people who live in under developing countries due to how American society portrays them. Those misconceptions allow Americans to imagine how they live […]
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Evelyn Mendez edited the blog post Consent from humans beings in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Now that we’ve read through Zone One by Colson Whitehead, I found myself comparing and contrasting the lives of the zombies to the lives of slaves from Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington. There were differences in the lifestyles that people lived by before they turned into zombies and the slaves before they were used for medical research.…[Read more]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Solutions in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
This past summer, Dr. Munch and several students had the opportunity to go on a study abroad trip to Ghana to take Biology 344. Along with this being a class, it was an experience for these students. They were […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Volunteer? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
Recently during class we went over the topic of medical volunteerism, which has to do with visiting certain areas in other countries that may not have the same medical resources that there are in the United States […]
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Evelyn Mendez wrote a new blog post Rolling through “Southern Discomfort” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
“I have heard that the Masters beat and scourge them most cruelly. But I have not seen anything of the kind, nor do I believe that it occurs very often. For the southern people as class are Noble minded kind […]
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Evelyn Mendez joined the group American Studies 6 years, 6 months ago
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