Claude McKay

How have the Puerto Rican men in the protagonist’s life affected him? Have they had positive or negative affects on his life? Why?

ASSIGNMENT Write 100 words per question Texts: Maria Luisa Arroyo, “Barreras” (10) Ed Morales, “Spanish Harlem on My Mind” (26-35) Urayoan Noel, “Barrio Speedwagon Blues” (36) Edwin Torres, “I Wanted to Say Hello to the Salseros but My Hair Was a Mess” (47-51) Bonafides Rojas, “It’s a Myth on Our Tongue” (202-205) Questions: 1. When […]

Create an argument for how the novel, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and the poem, ;If We Must Die by Claude McKay, demonstrate resistance to boundaries.

This assignment will require research and focused analysis on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. This novel has received a great deal of attention, both praising it and denigrating it. Both academic responses and popular responses have highlighted the concerns of the text. Your task for this assignment is to pair the novel with a short […]

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