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Colorblind
The time is 1968. The place is Montgomery, Alabama. The story is one of resilience in the face of discrimination and bullying. Using the racially repugnant word “nigger,” two Caucasian boys repeatedly bully Miss Annie Loomis--the first African-American teacher at the all-white Wyatt Elementary School. At the same time, using the hateful word “harelip,” the boys repeatedly bully Miss Loomis’s eleven-year-old Caucasian student, Lisa Parker, who was born with cleft palate and cleft lip. Who will best the bullies? Only Lisa’s mood ring knows for sure.
The Pusillanimous Denis
Denis Breen, a minor character in James Joyce's Ulysses, receives an unsigned postcard which reads "U.p.: up." Scholars consider "U.p.: up" to be a joke encoded in a puzzle or riddle. This paper proposes to decode the postcard message "U.p.: up" and to identify its author. The postcard message "U.p.: up" is read "you pee up" and refers to Denis Breen's unusual urination. Denis Breen "pees up" or sprays his urine upward when urinating from a standing position because he has hypospadias and his urethral opening is within or behind his testes. The symbol "p." in the message "U.p.: up" depicts the penis and testes of Denis Breen, and the "twoheaded octopus" signifies Breen's hypospadic testicles...
Malcolm and Me
Philly native Roberta Forest is a precocious rebel with the soul of a poet. The thirteen-year-old is young, gifted, black, and Catholic—although she’s uncertain about the Catholic part after she calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for enslaving people and her nun responds with a racist insult. Their ensuing fight makes Roberta question God and the important adults in her life, all of whom seem to see truth as gray when Roberta believes it’s black or white. An upcoming essay contest, writing poetry, and reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X all help Roberta cope with the various difficulties she’s experiencing in her life, including her parent’s troubled marriage. But when she’s t...
Art and Identity
This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.
