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You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Zora Neale Hurston
20th Century American Essay

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

here are a lot of great and very notable essays in here — ‘What White Publishers Won’t Print’, ‘How It Feels to Be Colored Me’, and ‘I Saw Negro Votes Peddled’. However, when discussing Hurston’s work, it is only appropriate to note that she is not the easiest author to read.

February 28, 2022February 27, 2022 by S. Hargrave — Comment on You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

I Am Not Your Negro and Nothing Personal

James Baldwin
Contemporary 21st Century American Essay Literature

I Am Not Your Negro and Nothing Personal

We happened across Raoul Peck’s film I Am Not Your Negro one February night while flipping through the channels. TVO was airing it as part of its yearly Black History Month’s selections. It’s a film that I would not hesitate to name as essential, and it’s what was responsible for my introduction to James Baldwin’s work.

February 7, 2022February 6, 2022 by S. Hargrave — Comment on I Am Not Your Negro and Nothing Personal
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