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"Who do you think you are?": Race, Representation, and Cultural Rhetorics in Online Spaces
Get PDFThis essay looks at the articulation of Black identity in personal and online contexts. Following Omi and Winant's argument that racial formation is a matter of racial representation within social structures, I examine the Internet as a "third place" for the online representation of Black identity by Blacks and by non-Blacks following two critical incidents in recent public culture: Kanye West's Hurricane Katrina speech and the Rev. Joseph Lowery's inauguration benediction. As a third place, the Internet encourages intimate discursive interaction, similar to the way Black barber shops and beauty salons allowed private spaces for identity discourses between Black men and women. The Internet also opens these formerly private spaces to non-Blacks, who contribute to the articulation of Black identity online
Manhood, Lorain-Style
Get PDFManhood, Lorain Style is a narrative essay in which the author discusses issues of masculinity and gender identity in the working-class environment of his hometown Lorain, Ohio. Written mostly as a story, the essay recounts a fistfight that the author provoked and participated in when he was sixteen years old in order to prove he wasn’t “gay” based on the standards of what he considers Rust Belt masculinity
Back to Buxton
Get PDFA creative essay exploring efforts towards racial integration in an Iowa mining town and in an Iowa college town a hundred years later
Grave Games
Get PDF"Grave Games" is an essay that explores some of the author's experiences trying to wrap her mind around the most mind-blowing topic of all: death
