Understanding Racism through Southern Women's Literature |
Welcome. This website was created for anyone struggling like me to be anti-racist It's a place to begin to understand racism and its impact on our lives by looking at the history and development of race relations as portrayed in the literature of women writers in the South. "All art is but imitation of nature." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
"When I walk out in my neighborhood, each speaking-to another person has become fraught, for me, with the history of race and sex and class; as I walk I have a constant interior discussion with myself, questioning how I acknowledge the presence of another, what I know or don't know about them, and what it means how they acknowledge me. It is an exhausting process, this moving from the experience of the 'unknowing majority' (as Maya Angelou called it) into consciousness. It would be a lie to say this process is comforting." -- Minnie Bruce Pratt |
This is a website in progress. Please send me your comments - any other authors that should be included or your thoughtful review of some of the literature mentioned. |
