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Toby Youngman edited the blog post The Measure of Our Lives in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
In my first blog post, I wrote about an epigraph from Toni Morrison that says, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Morrison’s quote has been on my […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post Fractals in Motion in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
In an older post of mine entitled “Everything Comes from the Fractal” I discussed the role of the fractal within African culture as well as the way, it applies to the controlling ideas and subjects featured in the […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post Part of the Story in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
As we have discussed in class, Toni Morrison’s Jazz ends with a line that reads, “Look where your hands are. Now.” By ending her book in such a way, Morrison is acknowledging the reader, letting them know the un […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post Everything Comes from the Fractal in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Everything comes from the fractal. It’s a notion that didn’t come to me until recently, but after the heating plant visit, the group blog posts and several individual posts I have reached the conclusion that Afr […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post Brockway the Artist in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
In my last blog post, I briefly touched on Glenn Ligon’s idea of “Send me something from where you are, but don’t come here.” In this statement, Ligon is describing the process of cultural appropriation and the […]
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Toby Youngman wrote a new blog post “European Folktale Variant” and Cultural Ownership in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
A few days ago, I was flipping through the anthology of poems we received after visiting the heating plant. As I did so, I was drawn to the poem entitled, “European Folktale Variant” by Toni Cade Bambara. This pie […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post Big Machine, H.P. Lovecraft, and the Unknown in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
As I was re-reading sections of Big Machine by Victor LaValle, I couldn’t help but notice a reference to another work of literature. The character Lake has a name taken directly from “At the Mountains of Mad […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post What Makes a Creature? in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
I would like to start this post by asking a question:
“What makes a creature?”
The word “creature” was thrown around a lot during in last week’s discussion of “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler, parti […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post Greta Van Fleet, The Blues, and Cycles of Repetition in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
Greta Van fleet is a Michigan-based rock band, that has gained considerable traction within recent years. While the band has received praise from critics and fans alike, they have also received a great deal of […]
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Toby Youngman edited the blog post The Things We Leave Behind in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
With the first two weeks coming to an end, I wanted to discuss one of the epigraphs that really stood out to me. Said epigraph is from a 1993 Nobel Lecture from Toni Morrison in which she said, “We die. That may b […]
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Toby Youngman joined the group American Studies 5 years, 1 month ago
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Toby Youngman joined the group Reader and Text 5 years, 6 months ago
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Toby Youngman's profile was updated 5 years, 6 months ago
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Toby Youngman became a registered member 5 years, 6 months ago