Veiling the Difference: A Raisin in the Sun
The years preceding 1959 were rife with racial tension across America. It was in this year that Lorraine Hansberry debuted …
Through the Looking Glass: How Our Own Perceptions Reinforce Cultural Paradigms
In Toni Morrison’s “Black Matters”, she argues that much of American literature, written largely by privileged white males, is filled …
Return to Normalcy: Cultural Hierarchies in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” and “Boy Erased”
In his essay “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, Jeffery Jerome Cohen argues in his fourth thesis that monsters are created by …
