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Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

During graduate school, Chris Hedges took ethics classes with James Luther Adams, an American theologian who spent time in Germany during…

6 min readSep 1, 2022

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Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

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Remembering the Atrocities of History in Olga Tokarczuk’sFlights

Ever since I saw the translation of Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob on the shelf at my library, I…

5 min read3 days ago

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Remembering the Atrocities of History in Olga Tokarczuk’sFlights

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The Myth of Poverty

Myths take on a life of their own, supplanting reality and facts within the psyche. Once a myth takes hold, it becomes difficult to…

6 min readApr 10, 2024

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The Myth of Poverty

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“America happened!” The Impact of Media on Perceptions of Self

Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Levy’s Queenie: Godmother of Harlem tells the story of Stephanie St. Clair, “a racketeer and a bootlegger”…

5 min readApr 7, 2024

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“America happened!” The Impact of Media on Perceptions of Self

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Our Role in the Relay of “Cosmic Composition”

Writing about how their time in Washington D.C. and at Howard University drew to a close in the early 1940s, Pauli Murray reflected on all…

5 min readApr 5, 2024

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Our Role in the Relay of “Cosmic Composition”

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The Most Important Twentieth-Century American Novel

Whenever I look I look at a list of the most important twentieth century American novels and novelists, the same names pop up again and…

5 min readMar 31, 2024

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The Most Important Twentieth-Century American Novel

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The Voices That Carry Us Forward

“And I wonder,” Angela Davis asked in a 2013 lecture at Birkbeck University in London, “will we ever truly recognize the collective subject…

6 min readMar 28, 2024

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Reading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…

Over the past two posts, I have written some about the connections I see between Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1898) and Zora Neale…

5 min readMar 24, 2024

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Reading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…

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Reading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…

In my previous post, I wrote about the symbolism of the parrot and birds in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and the mule in Zora Neale…

5 min readMar 22, 2024

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Reading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…

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Reading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…

Over the past week, I reread Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in preparation…

5 min readMar 17, 2024

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Reading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…

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Matthew Teutsch

Matthew Teutsch

Here, you will find reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy.

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