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The Bluest Eye book review


Tizzo-Music Producer for Gumbomonster.com

Can it be? Am I actually posting?!? I can’t believe it my damn self. School is over, my last final is tomorrow, and then the break comes. But what about all those papers, assignments, and test you took during the semester? What, you go just throw ’em in the trash? Gotta be crazy. I have most of my college papers since my freshmen year and it’s always cool to re-read them because you get a sense of where you were at during that period in your life. It’s pretty much equal to 1000+ words that creates a picture, stamped in time. No? Don’t agree? No need to. Check out this book review I did for my African American women’s history class. Maybe you’ve read the book or maybe you will want to. Either way is cool with me
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The Bluest Eye

The Blues Eye. Toni Morrison. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. 224 pp.

       Beauty is an ideal that has been redefined, reinforced, and reinvented over and over. Read the rest of this entry

Aliaa Elmahdy: I am nude, I am woman, but we are not free.


Tizzo-Music Producer for Gumbomonster.com

Typically, I only write a post on Gumbomonster once a week. Between school and traveling to school, I just don’t have enough time to put in quality work for people to read. Every now and then though, I come across stories that I just can’t pass up. I end up wanting to know more about a particular issue, which makes me want to share what i learned with you. My first big post was on Amber Cole, a 14 year old who was the focus of a viral video that showed her giving a blow job to an older man. My second most popular and most well written story was of 5 white sorority students from USM that showed their admiration for the Cosby family by dressing in blackface, with afro wigs, and black hands. The third story Read the rest of this entry