English @ SUNY Geneseo | Melissa Whyman | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/mdw6/activity/ Activity feed for Melissa Whyman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1c894157431864c12a523c2a12710822 Melissa Whyman wrote a new blog post Sha Sha Sha in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7626/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:52:06 -0500 In class Dr.McCoy has mentioned Toni Morrison’s television interview, Uncensored, a couple of times, and while I could not find a site that would provide the entire interview without paying for it, I was able to f […]

]]> 0 1f897b330f5540deba9d2dd15defc56a Melissa Whyman edited the blog post Jamelle Bouie's "White Won." in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7604/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:17:54 -0500 For those of you who might not have seen it, I just wanted to share an article that Dr.McCoy alluded to in our class the other day and had retweeted on twitter. Jamelle Bouie’s “White Won” is both a look at some of the initial emotions following the results from Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning and is an attempt to discuss our nation’s “long…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c18d1f235087e42dfe5ded4f016406d Melissa Whyman wrote a new blog post Life Advice From Louis C.K. ? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7449/ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 02:36:41 -0500 In reading Maya Schenwar’s chapter from Locked Down, Locked Out in class the other day, the line “Hurt people hurt people” stood out to me in particular.  I do believe that it is a line that is meant to grab pe […]

]]> 0 b048bb731f92a08813e065937aba6074 Melissa Whyman commented on the post, A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/10/18/a-conversation-between-james-baldwin-and-audre-lorde/#comment-26 Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:39:36 -0500 First off, thank you for providing this interview Jason. I found it to be extremely interesting, eye-opening, and haunting (although I’m sure for different reasons than you felt haunted by this interview) all at […]

]]> a7cc8ab82af21250f7bd57e90a344f83 Melissa Whyman edited the blog post Was There Another Way? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7348/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:10:30 -0500 As we finished up the reading for Beloved in class, there was an almost overwhelming amount of content to discuss not only within the book, but outside the book as well.  One of the discussions that Dr.McCoy urged us to look into outside of class was about Bresha Meadows and Marissa Alexander.  Not being familiar with either of these names or the…[Read more]

]]> 0 7835cfeed28f5ab3a492a80ac3306d07 Melissa Whyman commented on the post, #LetLesbiansLive, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/18/letlesbianslive/#comment-17 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:25:31 -0500 Hi Jordanna,

Your post and the question that you pose at the end of it caught my eye, and although I do not have a complete answer for you, I would like to try and add my thoughts! The trope found […]

]]> 04f419572650528e021a74608066b7b4 Melissa Whyman edited the blog post A Response to "A Terrible Transformation, Africans in America" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7110/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 02:11:55 -0500 After having watched the documentary today in class that Sarah had previously mentioned, Dr.McCoy gave us about ten minutes to reflect on any significant connections that we could see between the documentary and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.  While Sarah had already started this discussion with her post, I think it is only appropriate to continue t…[Read more]

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