Curiosity

Self-Awareness; self-reflection

The central idea is JAckie robinsons legacy. or how jackie robinson created a legacy

his presence in major leagues allowed for other african americans to be accepted in baseball.

This section details the peak of Robinson's career. his major successes.

If the situation foreshadowed the other prejudices he would face later on, what does that imply about his career? / What does is the "situation" that's being foreshadowed? The acquittance from an all white-jury or being arrested for fighting racism?

The situation that foreshadowed could both be the fact it was a white jury that helped him i.e the importance of ally's in order to combat racial discrimination and how he's going to face many other prejudices and violences against him

Information in how facing constant descrimination even from your teammates takes guts.

This is not the central idea, but it can help find the central idea.

What does it mean to have "Guts"- that he was brave. Why is he brave? what does his bravery look like?

This may answer a part of the previous question of the "all-white jury aquittance."... Maybe?

This information challenges his previous "occupation" of racial activism

This reference to his frustation, implies his desire for change in Baseball... i guess.

Word meaning "aquitted" From this sentence what can be inferred about the word "aquitted"

• "Fortunately" tells us that what the all-white Jury wasn't a bad thing.

"Information" Fighting racism

"Information" with fighting racism

"Information"

Example of the central idea in the beginning of the passage

The central Idea is going to evolve around Jackie's fight against racism.

From this sentence, what can we infer the rest of the article is going to be about/ What does this infer about the rest of Jackie Robinson's career?

Jackie's Early athletic success is the central idea; his accomplishments in his youth.

Key details to his early success. "Information"

speaks to the black woman experience. opposite of the strongblack woman trope/ portrayal. When black women are being written by an Other they have a history of portraying BW as strong, unrelenting, dominant, masculine, aggressive, loud, sexually confident etc. but this one sentence is devoid of any of those characteristics. Helene is the opposite. "An eagerness to please and an apology for living" is describes how instinctively submissive and subservient she is, at least in the presence of authority. however in this particular instance, I would also argue she's experiencing a form of PTSD,

he used the wood from the oak tree to build, oak tree became street lamps, as he became an "enlightened" figurehead to the people. He towered and cast light

Both Logan killicks and Joe starks wanted her to work too. but Logan pampered her for a year and then makes her help with the farm work. She now feels used and unloved. The love is like a dead tree. which is fitting for the name of Logan Killicks

Jody Starks: Jis namesake "Starks" is significicant becaust of how big he thinks he is compared to others. There's a stark contrast between him and others in his mind, because of that, he habors a domineering personality. He needs to feel like the "big man" and encompany all types of power. thats why he became the postmaster, mayor, etc. "Have his way all his life, trample and madh down and then die rather then let him hear about it" ... Irrisisteble maleness" He's all about building, bullying and politics. Janie fits Jody's belief of what the mayors wife should look like and neglects her so she won't grow into something other than the vision he has for her. He towers over her, and like a tree, his shadow prevents her from catching sun and growing for herself. He wants her to work in the store and stay in positions suitable for a mayors wife. that's all Jody wants Janie to be. always budding but never to blossom.

Tea cake encourages her to work- but not for him, or in a certain way,- he just wants her to work with him.

"seed of fear

she tried to maintain sentimental order in her life and each one of them materialized before her. one of (white )culture, religion, immigrant, minority status.

SO the women who realized that they didn't need to be strong were able to fully recover from depression

the women who manage the depression by being strong still experienced this periodically- maybe even more so.

Sarah was trying to manage by being strong- so strong that she didn't need her father "quote from landlady" but in her attempt to be strong she was losing her mind, will to live, and hair

This is exactly what happened to sarah. she's wearing a mask of strength or at least sanity in order to hide that she's suicidal. they see that's going crazy anf is acting weird but no one is trating her.

IMPORTANT. everyone in the play is said to be wearing a mask. this mask is the symbolism of her hiding from her suffering and mental illness.

*must read hooks'

conflict between both of her cultures. her cultural background is one of patrice lumbaba who was killed. meaning her only identity were two european royaltyis and a horribly alteres portrayal, embodiment of Jesus

I argue that the entire play is in this stage, the last stage. her way of trying new apporaches is making up different realities and people who each see this situation as something much different and far more dramatic/tramautic

something that sarah doesnt do. instead of accepting she continues to fabricate these different realities in order to almost worsen her actual trauma.

this is good and all but I dont think she found strength in God. it might've been the opposite. closer reading needed

Sarah's relationship with God has been completely skewed. Her mother urged herfather to be "jesus" a savior to the black race. he was supposed to heal the misery of the black man, but instead he ended up wanting to escape his blackness.

Her foundation of christ is just as broken as her foundation in her father. by her line "I always belived my father to be God" it means that she used to have faith in him. used to have faith in him as a black man like her mother did. but when he went off and married a white woman she lost her ability to have faith in anything.

to her, her father marrying a white woman would be like jesus endorsing the anti-christ. it is absolutely blasphemous in chrisitan belief and would challenge the entire lifestyle and existance of a christians religious identity.

**see where she might've been altering the events of her life into something positive. if anything she kept altering her life and background into worse and worse versions. or it could just all be slightly different versions of the same tragedy.

therefore doing half of the step, in which she alters the meaning, but has the same negetative trauma. if not worse

This preferance for white women therapists in this exact respect can actually be harmdul. because a white woman is not truly what she needs to talk to. also sarah has been looking for solace in a white people, she doesn't need an outside perspective, what she needs is someone who actually understands her.

this reaching for white people is what caused her confusion in the first place. Her desire for whiteness while being black- or rather her refusal to ackowledge the power/strength/beauty of her blackness is what kills her.

At once she states that she bludgeoned her father with a black mask/head. this is a metaphor that she was so hurt that her father chose the white life that she'd rather have him die as a black beast than to see him live as black man married to a white woman. so she killed him in an ugly portrayal of blackness- to justify her desire to be affiliated with white people. She doesn't want to claim her father or ackowledge her hypocrisy.

In fact, we can read her boyfriend as her therapist. he's white, jewish, and seems to find amusement in her lies, hatred, and body. this amusement of problems is because he's so far detached from the situation he can't provide any empathy and understanding to her actions and much less read into her obvious cries for help.

read more into the need for black ppl to see black therapists*

when talking to raymond sarah started the conversation with her problems. he was p much the only person she talked to. "quote from book"***

for sarah her religious contemplation led to negetaive directions. she kept inserting her own troubles into the other characters causing this repition of confusion and deeper depression.

the opposite affect occured. instead of thought blocking she thought sped the fuck up

the ducchess was defintely the one engaged in distracting activities. Both her and the wueen dwelled on her depression but her way of distraction caused her to dwell on it even more.

The queen- or rather the duchess- pinpoints it. but it's not really diverted

what things did the queen go through in her life that could've been tramautic. The queen is the first one (maybe) to talk about her mother and the struggle of being her own gender. She curses her father immediately because of what he's done to her mother.

Our first introduction of her is her dwelling on the struggle that she (sarah) goes through as a woman. mourns her beautful mother and dehumanizes her father.

because sarah couldn't be stronger this made her hair fall out. not necesarily the cause but its a factor. her lack of blackness devoids her of her "strength". "the cultural way of doing things was to be stronger" Sarah didn't have that mindset to be stronger. furthermore, neither did the queen. She is the dominant culture and she seem's to be one of the dominant "selves" in sarah.

Sarah's loss of crown is because she was dwelling on her life as a caucasion

The marriage between the mother and father crumpled and the mother slowly lost her mind and her hair.

Sarah's mother was the opposite. she constantly dwelled on her pains and voiced them to her daughter. if not literally passing on the same painand eventual demise

the entire play is centered around her emotional and physical condition. hardly mentioning her outward behavior frfr

does this :internalization" process also contribute to the depressive episodes?

In order to maintain their image of a strong black woman, black women mask those behaviors which may make them seem weak. aka "internalizing" them.

this now makes more sinse as to why her initial breakdown is in her apartment in the first place. she only becomes other parts of herselves when she's alone.

This can fit with her hair being symbolized as her strength. because her hair is quite literally an exact opposite of her other very white-passing demeaner. She states thats the one prominent thing of her african american heritage. When she loses that, she loses her strength to go on.

Can these distinctions be found in a close reading of Sarah's other selves? what is there proximity to and distance from cultural discoruses

Must read "The listening Guide"

Though it's not really shown if sarah has a care taking role/ personality, two of her four "selves" have lived selfless lives that resulted in their execution/ crucification.

both JEsus and Lumbaba.

Sarah clearly states how much she yearns to be like her white counterparts. that could be a peak of her wisdom on who has it easier in te first place.

she already experiences the poverty, violence and (mental) illness that her blackness has had to offer her. and she doesn't want to be liberated from white feminity she wants to indulge in it. the same way that her father is indulging in the spoils of a white woman and a white lifestyle.

Another reason why hair is a good symbolism for strength: both kinky curly hair and strength are "natural qualities" to being a black woman.

As said, when she begins to lack that she doesn't feel as though she deserves to even live.

Is Sarah going though this silencing in relation to her father?

This break down of strength coincides perfetly with her four individual selves. must reread to accurately place each character to category but so far;

dwelling on the depression would be the queen; distracting themselves would be the duchess, regaining composure would be jesus (especially because spirituality) and the last "trying new approaches" would be Lumbaba.

the kicker is though she's going through all of these stages and concepts of strength as management tool for depression, each stage leads her down a worse path than before-- gotta discover a reason why-- mention where she starts losing her hais/ notices the loss of her hair

Change: Both the queen and duchess were dwelling on depression. her physical self talking Raymond would be her distracting herself.

Explanations: The queen and duchess kept talking about her father and the knocking on the door. the knock symbolizes the fathers presence- like it's something that she's repressed but is aware of the repression the distraction of raymond would be obvious, she came to talk to him but it seems as all h ewas interested in was her father which made her spiral worse her attempt to regain composure in her spirituality as Jesus didn't work because (re-read to understand) Her different approach with Lumbaba is in fact different because she finally gets in touch with her blackness, yet her black personality is still just as turmoiled and fucked up.

Sarah literally does take on the worries of the world. that's why her other personalites are from different periods, nationalities, trauma etc.

HEr denouncement of being black could be her just being done with having to carry this black struggle. she want's to live white, have white friends, have white worries, and never have to deal with the bullshit again.

but when her hair comes out, it's a sign of both how much stress she's had over her illness and her "failure" at being strong. Her hair could be a symbolism of her stregth of black woman, and as it sheds so does her will to live.

agreed. Sarah seem's to be openly going through a hard time and it seems as though even her own support system, herself, isn't working.

actually it could be read that Sarah actually is a strong black woman. She's been struggling so hard to take care of herself that it eventually leads to her downfall.

never opening up about her inner turmoil, or at least never conveying it properly to others or seeking medical help is what caused her to hang herself.

this description in particular doesn't relate to sarah at all.

there is a great social distance between her, her father, and her mother. like a greeeeeaaaaat one

Are there any instances in the play where the landlady and raymond (the two white characters) benefit from her suffering? or maybe its the wueen and the duchess who benifit the most from black trauma.

What does this say about her psyche? that two of her identities are actively degrading, opressing, torturing her other halfs?

The play is mostly focused on Sarah and her multiple identities, but a close reading of the text could reveal her distrust for medical institutions and a possible hint at experimentation.

So far, she doesn't satisy the characteristic trope of a strong black woman. Rather she really is just a tragic Mulatto. based on the ending, it's possible that even her self proclamation as a tragic mulatto is false.

afro cuban religions- santaria emerged based of bodily schemas of those feelings of being racially oppressed.

so santeria as it pertains to making lucumi, or black bodies, or mulatto bodies, is the embodiment of those feelings through reenacting the same bodily movements of the oppressive time.

THAT HOW THEY ARE.

santeria version of the quote

just how rowena was in pain bc she fought with ligeia copresence but when she succembed to it everything was better cuz she died

gaze our girl is all about the gaze

rowena was not a practicioner, he wanted her possessed, inhabited whatever

he, the priest kept a coffin in his house, his house of sleeping and shit bro

this is the role of the husband. the husband is in the dark about his own doings becuase he's addicted to opium. He is a known researcher in the supernatural and he constantly tries to enlighten himself about what exactly Ligeia is- when he does that thats when she dies and he is again left in the dark. He is not supposed to know or witness the true powers of Ligeia/ Lucemi.

this is where the story and the religion is folded in body and spirit. In temporal spatialities.

Narratoer seems uncertain in some parts of the story because of his opium addiction. HOwever maybe he just uses his opium addiction as a way to cope with this uncertain feeling. infact, that description he had of him almost knowing about what that look in ligeias eyes are, or whats different about her in general is actually that uncertainty. especially sense it lingers in connestion of sense experience.

How does the gothic manor incite a racial memory? maybe it's not the husband who is possesed at all, rather its only intended for rowena.

sites where embodied racial memory initiates embodies capacites of and for action- the gothic house that drips with death embodies the husbands memory of Ligeia and thus initiates the embodies capacity of and for action- that is to say he is able to be possesed?

!!!! YES

point of santeria is for those not of our race who are priveldged can finally feel and sense our diaspora.

Is there any evidence that the husbands body reacts in a way that he does not accurately interpret? Is there any evidence of him being "blackened"?

IMPORTANT THIS IS WHAT HUSBAND DOES FOR LIGEIA

Is ligeia like a lucumi

does this relate to the quote of that between the will of the body and surpassing death? Maybe so

this is pretty much exactly what happens in ligeia and rowena.

Fermina was born during a period of slave rebellion which invoked mass torture, racial genocide, and expelling black Ms back to africa- Ligeia comes from an unknown land or history as told by husband- whole time she's "orisha" and the whole thing is aymbolism of the ritual in which rowena transforms into ligeia. "The eyes... of Ligeia!"

OR just like the fermina in other stories, where they had to reverse the ritual

what rowena felt before her possesion- could also explain the constant need for the husband torefer to ligeia as goddess.

the power of the enchantment would succumb to his own being. He cannot have known that he was the one who killed rowena for that fact could shock him into breaking his curse. There must always be a "forbidden wisdom/knowledge" when it comes to him. Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is the curse.

he uses the drugs as a means to discredit anything that he might confess of his mythical entrapment- almost like the captain used fainting spells whenever he got too nervous or didn't know what to say when he was held captive.

somewhere in his mind he doesn't want the blood of an innocent on his hands so he blames- or completely modifies the true events.

she's passionate for life, but a different life. she want's someone elses.

this is what Jay Z does. Confronts the legacy of animated blackness, financial freedom(or lack thereof) and the psychology behind ones removal from their blackness

direct relation to the pink elephant on parade scene

Kind of like the "Black magic" but not in the way it's twisted. rather, its in the way that black people exude a certain level of confidence that makes everyone jealous, that black feather is more than just a trick to make him fly, it's a symbolism of acceptance in the black community. That acceptance and support is what drives him to fly.

the fact that Dumbo is an African elephant, experiencing the American life and culture for the first time he's constantly getting weird looks and stares. and being made fun of for being different. Timothy is a "White Savior" so to speak. the pink elephants song were the voices and things that he's heard, and the different types of ways he's being put on display. and his ability to fly came from his attempt to get away from it all. The crows, while orginally joking about his difference, soon came to the understanding they he really was just like them. even though he wasnt "black" he was still an African- American who just didn't know how to survive in America quite yet. So they taught him to fly- to be two times better- and gave him something to believe in because they know how hard it is to believe in yourself. That belief gave him the confidence to face something that he wouldnt have been able to at first, but once that little feather flew away, he spread his ears and flew, exceeding every expectation that was once given to him. --The feather could be a symbol for a "black card" a symbol of belonging, because that's what Dumbo ultimately wants. His mother has been incarcerated for protecting him and all the elephants have rejected him. when he is supposed to be clown, he's only used as joke, never truly fitting in with the clowns because 1. they leave him outside of the tent, 2. doesn't even believe he can be harmed as a living thing could. ("elephants ain't got no feelings. yeah, they're made of rubber.")

Not being able to fit in with the elephants or the clowns, this arises a sort of double consciousness with Dumbo. Despite his inability to speak and childlike innocence, Dumbo understands that he doesn't fit in to anywhere, which is why he can't even be swayed with Timothy's peanuts.

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a poet is just imitator because he imitates that which has been done, or what could be done, or what will be done.

he imitates the limititations of the human mind, body and soul. He is able to create a fully functional creature that doesn't exist unless someone else knows about the creation. in this- a poet, a writer is one level removed from God. but in the world that he creates- a poet is in himself- by definition- a God.

For God makes more than characters- he makes stories and plots. God is a historian, a poet, a scientist, a mathemetician, God holds every title and role and position.

A comedic poet writes his poem from the plot and continues the plot the plausibility of the story- and then gives each character their names and role.

the lampooner (or historian) focuses strictly on the character- well the individual- from birth to death- and tell's their role in the story, rather than the entire story.

now rare A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.

A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

Faithfulness to one's duties. Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs (except in an open marriage). Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.

A Greek dramatic poet (525 BC - 456 BC); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.

Not noble; plebeian; common. Not honorable; base.

a explantion upon imitation

A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water

first Allusion- describe homer's influence in the text. -- Homer's works are heavily alluded. as is the Greek Mythology.

Plato's fellows saw Homer and his fellow-poets as a source of moral guidance; the Greeks quoted the Iliad and Odyssey as frequently and with as much fervor as some Christians quote the Bible.

the overall theme of the philosophical translation.

For the Ancient Greek woman artist see Timarete. In Greek mythology, Thamyris (Greek: Θάμυρις), son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope, was a Thracian singer who was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could outsing the Muses.

A Thracian musician and poet, who failed to retrieve his wife Eurydice from Hades.

One of the three Fates, or Moirae; a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the cutter of the thread of life, depicted as an old woman. Her Roman counterpart is Morta.

Greek god The youngest of the three Fates, a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the spinner of the thread of life. Her Roman equivalent is Nona. astronomy Short for 97 Klotho, a main belt asteroid.

A funeral pile

One of the three Fates (Moirae), daughter of Zeus and Themis; the measurer of each thread of life. Her Roman equivalent is Decima.

on of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus; a Greek leader during the Trojan War, and responsible for the Trojan horse; king of Ithaca; hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey

A galley with three banks of oars, one above the other, used mainly as a warship.

A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

to outwit or outsmart

Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.

Immediately

a person who recites epic poems, especially one of a group in ancient Greece whose profession it was to recite the Homeric poems from memory.

The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute

Of course, because even though women are supposedly "inferior" to men, White women hold more value than a black man and even more to that of a black woman.

Demonizing the concept of manifest destiny. As englas overthrew the world to make it more england and less anything else, they essentially eradicated not only nearly entire races of people, but also their cultures, languages and history. The presence of white history is glorified because it's the white people telling the history.