ENGL 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lucy Terry, Hegemonic Masculinity, The World Academy Of Sciences
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Was a slave of rhode island as of a young age and became free in 1756 after marrying abijah prince, a free black man. Her surviving book is a collection of poems called "bars fight" (1746) and is one of the earliest forms of af. It was transmitted orally for more than 100 years, first appearing in print in 1855. The poem commemorates white settlers who were killed in an encounter with indians in 1746. 6 degrees of separation by kevin bacon: god, angels, men, women, animals, plants, rocks. -> this system is based on domestication; animals and black people have moved. Around in that list due to the idea that they were beasts, but can somehow be. -hegemonic masculinity: the idea that white males were superior, bc they wre above in the chain pf being. Everything that (humans) believe they are not, they project all those things they are not onto others.
