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- - - - Religion & Spirituality
        
        Historical Events
        
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- - - - These quotes makes clear that the poem focuses on a Black child who wants to be involved with Civil Rights protests.
  - - - Cullen discusses the misfortunes of how he experiences racism as a Black man.
  - - - "could i go by f.j.c.? could i be
        paper thin & raceless?"
  - - - "No! He has not a flower to his name."
        
        Brooks, as a Black author is able to show how this poem reveals a more systemic issue. Satin Smith is a man who lives in poverty caused by systemic racial factors.
        
        Satin Smith does not confront the issues he faces but uses his Sundays as a way to cope with them. On Sunday it is almost like he creates a new persona that does not think about the issues he faces.
        
        "Pictures, too, as usual, are blurred.
        He sees and does not see the broken windows."
        
        "He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a cat
        Tawny, reluctant, royal."
        
        Satin Smith is compared to royalty even though his life and where he lives is described as somewhere that contradicts this.
  - - - “Because white eyes do not want to know us, they do not bother to learn our language, the language which reflects us, our culture, our spirit.”
        
        Anzaldúa discusses how white people often dismiss her for using her native language or discriminatory towards her because she is Hispanic. White people view her native language as less important or willl label her as stupid, assuming she must not know English since she is not white.
        
        "Most of us are willing to help but we can’t do the white woman’s homework for her.”
        
        Similar to Audre Lorde, Anzaldúa makes it known that it is not her job to educate white women on these issues she faces as a woman of color, as white women's resistance to learning about these issues is an act of racism and misogyny in itself.
  - - - “In truth, my own family is an example of the model minority that could be used to rebut such an argument… But it shouldn’t take this kind of success to be welcomed.”
  - - - "When the colonists came, they committed our edges to paper; they tried to cage us with their borders. A country is impossible to contain; a people are impossible to boil to the silt of parchment. A map is only one story. It is not the most important story. The most important story is the one a people tell about themselves."
  - - - "Periodically, I’ll catch her gripped in fury at herself for not quite comprehending, say, the instructions on a box of Rice-A-Roni or Hamburger Helper (seemingly magical dinners that my sister and I whine for, despite not actually liking the stuff )..."
  - - - Other kids treat Blanco poorly for not knowing about American culture and what foods are traditional at Thanksgiving dinner, even though he does not know about these things because they are unfamiliar to his Cuban family of immigrants who did not grow up in America.
        
        “The next day at recess, I asked some of the American kids in class what they had for Thanksgiving. “Turkey—- what else, dummy?”
        
        Blanco's family members and friends also do not feel welcome going to the American grocery store because of their ethnicity.
        
        “She asked my mother to go for her; our neighbor Teresa; our mechanic’s wife, Loraine, who was half-Italian. But they all refused, claiming Winn-Dixie was no place for people like us.”
  - - - The way Morrison does not tell the reader what characters are which race is meant to reveal the reader's own assumptions and prejudices relating to race.
- - - - “Mother dear, may I go downtown
        Instead of out to play,
        And march the streets of Birmingham
        In a Freedom March today?”
        
        This is discussing the Civil Rights movement.
  - - - "INTHEAUTUMNOF 1971 a man used to come to our house, bearing confections in hispocket and hopes of ascertaining the life or death of his family. His name was Mr.Pirzada, and he came from Dacca, now the capital of Bangladesh, but then a part ofPakistan. That year Pakistan was engaged in civil war. The eastern frontier, whereDacca was located, was fighting for autonomy from the ruling regime in the west."
- - - - "But this flower does not want
        to be named. Does not want to be owned."
        
        The power of the Corpse Flower and rejection of the male farmer's care Is something that is highlighted in the poem giving readers a sense of female empowerment.
        
        He even gave it a name and when the farmer
        said the name out loud, the flower began to move—
        then completely devoured him.
  - - - This idea of unity as a means to correct social issues is prevalent in Anzaldúa's work as well.
  - - - "It is a particular academic arrogance to assume any discussion of feminist theory without examining our many differences..."
        
        "Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women — in the face of tremendous resistance — as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our join survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic relation of racist patriarchal thought.”
  - - - Anzaldúa discusses the misogyny she faces from white men as a woman of color. White men are constantly telling woman of color like her that they should not write or cannot be successful if they are not white or a man.
  - - - “I resented the fact that it was OK for my brothers and to touch and kiss and flirt with her, but not for my sister and me. Resenting the fact that physical intimacy between women was taboo, dirty.”
        
        Since Anzaldúa is a woman her family disapproved of her sexuality. She was taught that being interested in other women was wrong and intimacy with women is shameful which shows misogyny.
        
        Anzaldúa protests these ideas by discussing how people who face all kinds of discrimination should come together to change these issues.
        
        “The rational, the patriarchal, and the heterosexual have held sway and legal tender for too long. Third World women, lesbians, feminists, and feminist-oriented men of all colors are banding and bonding together to right that balanced Only together can we be a force.”
  - - - "I am not truly sure what he is going to do before he does it. "
        
        "– Oh, this? I touch my ribbon at the back of my neck. It’s just my ribbon. I run my fingers halfwayaround its green and glossy length, and bring them to rest on the tight bow that sits in the front. Hereaches out his hand, and I seize it and push it away.–You shouldn’t touch it, I say.You can’t touch it."
        
        "I have given you everything you have ever asked for, I say. Am I not allowed this one thing?"
      - In the same way, Machado shows this idea in her writing of how women are owned or objectified by men and made to do things based on their wants through the character of the husband.
  - - - Xiomara is taught to be ashamed of her sexuality and her body as a young woman.
        
        Her body is often objectified.
        
        "...boys and men
        have told me all of the things
        they would like to do to my body..."
        
        "Trying to unhear
        my mother turn my kissing ugly,
        my father call me the names
        all the kids have called me
        since I grew breasts."
        
        Her mother treats her differently than her twin brother, she is not encouraged to date like her brother is.
- - - - These quotes describe religion. The symbolism of the white shoes and gloves the child is wearing relates to what one wears to a church.
  - - - The poem alludes to the beginning of the Bible so Clifton can put herself in place of God to describe her feelings of how she views the world around her. She uses religion to relate to the ideas of creation and to express how she is struggling with creating something herself.
        
        “I lucille clifton hereby testify that in that room there was light and in that light there was a voice and in that voice there was a sigh”
  - - - B"raiding Sweetgrass:Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and theTeaching of Plants" by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  - - - "I think we are all like or as God.
        I think when we get together and talk about ourselves, about being human, about what hurts us, we’re also talking about God. So that’s also church, right?"