English @ SUNY Geneseo | Alpha Barry | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/alphabarry3284/activity/ Activity feed for Alpha Barry. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 821dd3ac36fef3b4d6c32de07cae5566 Alpha Barry edited the blog post Comedy - Isn't that funny? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7671/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 07:15:57 -0500 We have been working diligently, putting our creative minds to work in drawing connections between Dante’s Paradiso and Morrison’s Paradise. In our most recent class days working on the final project, the word “comedy” came up a few times, and bounced around my head for a while. Of course it was partially because we were working with the [Read more]

]]> 0 6467679dc5e6f707c95f48463ca516ab Alpha Barry edited the blog post Humanities for the Hood in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7491/ Sat, 29 Oct 2016 06:44:01 -0500 Since the first day of class when I found out that Toni Morrison claims to write for Black people, I have been dissecting her works in search of any indications as to why. I wondered if Morrison’s claim to write for Black people was a way of turning her work into forbidden fruit for non-Black people, especially White people, enticing them to re…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffa554edc01cdf0d769f754fa13768fd Alpha Barry wrote a new blog post Some More Historical Significance in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7415/ Thu, 13 Oct 2016 21:18:51 -0500 While searching through the beginning chapters of Jazz for historically significant references , I came across a couple that were not mentioned in class. The first is the “armistice” that is referred to while the […]

]]> 0 bba5bf38c5cff9c74161d4514e423b15 Alpha Barry wrote a new blog post Single Story of the Black Man in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7378/ Sat, 08 Oct 2016 01:50:37 -0500 Throughout our powerful conversation on Monday that concluded on the topic of single stories, I could not stop thinking about the single story that I myself and the rest of the Black male population in America are […]

]]> 0 8e1ec395c25b88da57f28669088ae5f0 Alpha Barry wrote a new blog post Snow Tension in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7309/ Sun, 25 Sep 2016 02:04:23 -0500 When we were asked in class to discuss the relation (if any) between accumulating snowfall and Beloved, I was drawing blanks. It almost felt as if I was trying to force a connection. But, after some discussion […]

]]> 0 db36022b9e64332fa788dfdc0e7f32fb Alpha Barry edited the blog post Black People Don't Read in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7063/ Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:38:20 -0500 When Beth told us of how Toni Morrison mentioned that she writes for black people, the first thing I thought about was a topic that came up a couple times in Beth’s African-American Literature course. Several writers and critics who were covered in the course mentioned that Black people do not read. I remember thinking deeply about this i…[Read more]

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