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The legal Status of Negro Americans
Authors: Wilson Sondra Kathryn 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: In the few observations that I am going to try to make I want to be as clear as I possibly can, as simple and direct as I can. I want to avoid anything like heat. I am afraid it would just create a cloud in my own mind, and as far as I possibly can I want to avoid anything approaching sheer rhetoric. I think we might start out by getting back to some sort of definition. We are all concerned with what we in no better terms call the race problem. I think we ought first to consider what that is or what it is not. I think we often start with an unexpressed idea, if not an expressed idea, that the race problem is and has been always a static situation, something fixed to be worked out by some rigid factors involved, some definite conclusion. I don’t think that the race problem is that or ever has been, but the race problem rather is a very fluid thing, a very unstable thing. We might get a definition like this, instead of being a static thing, it has consisted of a series of shifting interracial situations, continually shifting, continually changing, perhaps never the same thing in any two generations, shifting today under our very eyes. We can’t recognize the shifts that are going on just before our eyes, but when we look back, we can get the perspective. Now the Negro has been-we use the term “problem” because it is the easiest, stereotyped term we can handle. The Negro has been the interrogation point in American civilization for three centuries. That was the question mark say two hundred and fifty years ago and man discussed the question quite seriously. Many books were written about it. Men talked of it on the platform. It was as to whether or not the Negro was actually a human being, whether he had a soul that was capable of religious teaching and development.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Authors: Wilson Sondra Kathryn 
Published: November 2023

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Preface to the Original Edition of 1912 This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day. Special pleas have already been made for and against the Negro in hundreds of books, but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated. This is because writers, in nearly every instance, have treated the colored American as a whole; each has taken some one group of the race to prove his case. Not before has a composite and proportionate presentation of the entire race, embracing all of its various groups and elements, showing their relations with each other and to the whites, been made. It is very likely that the Negroes of the United States have a fairly correct idea of what the white people of the country think of them, for that opinion has for a long time been and is still being constantly stated; but they are themselves more or less a sphinx to the whites. It is curiously interesting and even vitally important to know what are the thoughts of ten millions of them concerning the people among whom they live. In these pages it is as though a veil had been drawn aside: the reader is given a view of the inner life of the Negro in America, is initiated into the “freemasonry,” as it were, of the race. These pages also reveal the unsuspected fact that prejudice against the Negro is exerting a pressure which, in New York and other large cities where the opportunity is open, is actually and constantly forcing an unascertainable number of fair-complexioned colored people over into the white race.
Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist
Authors: Wilson Sondra Kathryn 
Published: November 2023

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What Americans call the Negro problem is almost as old as America itself. For three centuries the Negro in this country has been tagged with an interrogation point; the question propounded, however, has not always been the same. Indeed, the question has run all the way from whether or not the Negro was a human being, down-or up-to whether or not the Negro shall be accorded full and unlimited American citizenship. Therefore, the Negro problem is not a problem in the sense of being a fixed proposition involving certain invariable factors and waiting to be worked out according to certain defined rules. It is not a static condition; rather, it is and always has been a series of shifting interracial situations, never precisely the same in any two generations. As these situations have shifted, the methods and manners of dealing with them have constantly changed. And never has there been such a swift and vital shift as the one which is taking place at the present moment; and never was there a more revolutionary change in attitudes than the one which is now going on.
Introduction
Authors: Fisch Audrey A , Mellor Anne K , Schor Esther H 
Published: November 2023

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In 1979, George Levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher’s The Endurance of Franken stein gave serious critical attention to the metaphorical and mythical meanings of Frankenstein. Interpreting the novel from a variety of perspectives—biographical, social, psychoanalytic, literary historical, generic, cinematic—the essays in The Endurance of Frankenstein strongly suggest that Franken stein, in the editors’ words, “belongs to a prophetic tradition open only, one would have thought, to mature literary imaginations. “ Despite aligning Fran—kenstein with the prophetic, philosophical fictions of Faust, Prometheus Unbound, The Brothers Karamazov, and Middlemarch, however, The Endurance of Frankenstein remains consistently circumspect about its claims for Mary Shelley.
Hot Rhythm
Authors: Collier James Lincoln 
Published: November 2023

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It has always been understood that the central characteristics of jazz, the sine qua non that distinguishes it from all other known kinds of music, is the rhythmic quality generally called “swing.” Jazz can be played in all sorts of harmonic systems-the standard European diatonic scheme, modes of various kinds, the pentatonic blues scale with its microtonal blue notes. It can be played on virtually any combination of instruments you want to name, employing the available range of instrumental timbres, including a number that were developed specifically for jazz music; and it can be played in almost any kind of metric system the musicians can master. But if it doesn’t swing, it isn’t jazz.
The Common Touch, Or, One Size Fi1s All
Authors: Fish Stanley 
Published: November 2023

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When Robert Penn Warren died in the fall of 1989 the New York Times printed a lengthy and admiring obituary in which it was noted, among other things, that Warren was greatly influenced by John Crowe Ransom. No doubt the Ransom influence extended to many matters, but the Times chose to highlight only one. Ransom, it informed us with authoritative solemnity, “once pointed out the impoverishment of modem life and the handicap to a writer in the destruction of commonly held myths that had been the heritage of the Western world” (16 September 1989, p. 11). What is curious is not that Ransom’s observation (if it is his; there is no reference) is remarked, but that it has almost no relationship to what the rest of the article goes on to say about Warren, and indeed it is only by way of an obviously strained transition that the journalist is able to return to his or her putative subject. If this is a puzzle, it is a small one that registers only on someone like me who is watching for signs. The puzzle becomes less puzzling and the signs more foregrounded when one turns to another vehicle of high middlebrow journalism, The New Yorker magazine, and finds in the 21 August 1989 issue two reviews that appear on consecutive pages.
Speaking in Code, Or, How To Turn Bigotry and Ignorance Into Moral Principles
Authors: Fish Stanley 
Published: November 2023

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“I have a dream that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke this famous sentence in his most famous speech on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial. I wonder how he would feel if he knew that in 1992 those words and others from his various speeches and writings are being employed in the service of the racism he spent his life combating. In saying this, I might seem to impugn the motives of many who would protest that it could hardly be racism to insist on the color-blind application of the law, but of course the proof is in the pudding, and as one piece of proof let me offer the following statement: “What we want in this country is equal opportunity for everyone, not affirmative action for a few.” The author of this statement is David Duke, and everyone knows that he doesn’t mean it. That is, he isn’t really concerned with the rights and opportunities of everyone; he is concerned that people previously denied equal opportunity are now in the pro cess of gaining it, and he speaks from the position of those who fear that the efforts to empower disadvantaged minorities are being made at their expense. What he’s really saying is: “Those niggers and kikes and faggots have come far enough; it’s time to stop them before they take our jobs, cheat our children out of a place in college, and try to move in next door.” He delivers what is known as a “coded” message, but the code is not difficult to crack, and in fact it is so transparent that for all intents and purposes it is literal.
Play of Surfaces: Theory and The Law
Authors: Fish Stanley 
Published: November 2023

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Legal theory today circles around a set of distinctions that are more or less its content: originalism versus nonoriginalism (or originalism plus), determinacy versus indeterminacy, interpretivism versus noninterpretivism, historical versus ahistorical interpretation, etc. It is assumed by those who wield these terms (l) that the positions they name are conceptually discrete and (2) that there is a strong correlation between the stances one takes (as in “I am an originalist” or “I choose to interpret historically”) and the shape of one’s practice. Thus, for example, Michael Perry cites the recent (mis)fortunes of Robert Bork, who, he says, was “rejected as unfit for membership on the Supreme Court principally because of his positionoriginalist-on issues contested in constitutional theory.” Perry’s point is complex and involves three claims: (1) that Bork’s originalism was regarded by his opponents as a reason for rejecting him; (2) that in their eyes the relationship between his originalism and his position on specific issues was strong and even inevitable; and (3) that the relationship was in fact strong and inevitable. (“Given his originalism,” says Perry, Bork’s “deep skepticism about . . . due-process doctrine regarding reproductive rights is easy to understand.”) The first and second claims may or may not be true; what is certainly true is that originalism was something Bork avowed, and (not necessarily “therefore”) he was rejected.
Paul Deman The Poetics of Collaboration
Authors: Morrison Paul 
Published: November 2023

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“The Resistance to Theory,” Paul de Man’s widely influential 1982 essay, begins by noting the resistance the essay originally encountered. Commissioned by the Committee on Research Activities of the Modern Language Association for its volume Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, the piece was nevertheless judged inappropriate by the editors, who declined to print it. De Man characterizes the decision, in the version of the essay since published in the volume that shares its name, as “altogether justified, as well as interesting in its implications for the teaching of literature.” The latter point seems to me plausible; in a rather oblique fashion I shall address some of those implications here.
Comedy and Jazz: Two Sui Generis
Authors: Stokes W Royal 
Published: November 2023

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I became aware of good music, fortunately, in early childhood,” Steve Allen told me about fifteen years ago. We were talking in the New York NBC radio studios after his short-lived show had concluded for that afternoon. He had reentered the world of radio a few months before but soon had to give up the program because of other commitments. During the show’s run he had many jazz artists as guests, including Mel Powell, Joe Williams, Ann Jillian, Bobby Enriquez, Terry Gibbs, Adam Makowicz, and Sven Asmussen.
The Preface To The Reader
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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The Book, which has been the occasion of the insuing Poem, was presented to me by its Author, of whom, notwithstanding he has been pleas’d to treat us with the utmost Severity and Neglect, I think my self oblig’d in Justice to say, that he is a Person of Learning. What his Reasons were for using us so roughly, I know not; perhaps he did it to let us see his Wit, who has had the ill Fortune to converse with Women of ungovernable Tempers, whose Passions have got the Ascendant of their Reason; such I think cannot be too harshly treated, and the greatest kindness that can be done ‘em, is to bring ‘em (if ‘tis possible) to the Knowledge of themselves, and their Duty, and by shewing them their Faults, indeavour to depress those towring Imaginations. But ‘tis hard that all should suffer for the Failures and Indiscretions of some; that those who are willing to give up themselves intirely to the Conduct of Reason, who make it their Study to live according to the strictest Rules of Vertue, and are so far from indulging themselves in their Follies, that they esteem Reproofs as the greatest Favours that can be shown ‘em, and are contented that all Mankind should be Judges of their Actions; whom Passions cannot byass, nor Interest tempt, nor Ill Usage provoke to do or say any thing unworthy of themselves, should be rank’d with Criminals, and have no Deference pay’d ‘em: ‘Tis for their Sakes alone I have made the following Remarks. I have done it by way of Dialogue, and those Expressions which I thought would be indecent in the Mouth of a Reverend Divine, are spoken by Sir john Brute, who has all the extraordinary Qualifications of an accomplish’d Husband; and to render his Character compleat, I have given him the Religion of a Wit, and the good Humour of a Critick.
The Ladies Defence: Or, a Dialogue Between Sir john Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa,and a Parson
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Sir john. Welcome, thou brave Defender of our Right; ‘Till now, I thought you knew not how to Write: Dull heavy Morals did your Pens imploy; And all your business was to pall our Joy: With frightful Tales our Ears you still did grate, And we with awful Reverence heard you prate; Heard you declaim on Vice, and blame the Times, Because we impudently shar’d your Crimes; Those darling Sins you wholly wou’d ingross: And when disturb’d, and fretting at your loss, With whining Tones, and a pretended Zeal, Saw you the Rancour of your Minds Reveal: Till now, none of your Tribe were ever kind, Good Humour is alone to you confin’d; You, who against those Terrours of our Lives, Those worst of Plagues, those Furies call’d our Wives, Have shew’d your Anger in a Strain Divine, Resentment sparkles in each poignant Line.
On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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I’le take my Leave of Business, Noise and Care, And trust this stormy Sea no more: Condemn’d to Toil, and fed with Air, I’ve often sighing look’d towards the Shore: And when the boistrous Winds did cease, And all was still, and all was Peace, Afraid of Calms, and flatt’ring Skies, On the deceitful Waves I fixt my Eyes, And on a sudden saw the threatning Billows rise: Then trembling beg’d the Pow’rs Divine, Some little safe Retreat might be for ever mine: give, I cry’d, where e’er you please, Those Gifts which Mortals prize, Grown fond of Privacy and Ease, I now the gaudy Pomps of Life despise.
On the Vanities of this Life: A Pindarick Ode
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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What makes fond Man the trifle Life desire, And with such Ardor court his Pain? ‘Tis Madness, worse than Madness, to admire What brings Ten thousand Miseries in its Train: To each soft moment, Hours of Care succeed, And for the Pleasures of a Day, With Years of Grief we pay; So much our lasting Sorrows, our fleeting Joys exceed.
Song
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Why Damon,why, why, why so pressing? The Heart you beg’s not worth possessing: Each Look, each Word, each Smile’s affected, And inward Charms are quite neglected: Then scorn her, scorn her, foolish Swain, And sigh no more, no more in vain. Beauty’s worthless, fading, flying; Who would for Trifles think of dying? Who for a Face, a Shape, wou’d languish, And tell the Brooks, and Groves his Anguish, Till she, till she thinks fit to prize him, And all, and all beside despise him? Fix, fix you Thoughts on what’s inviting, On what will never bear the slighting: Wit and Virtue claim your Duty, They’re much more worth than Gold and Beauty: To them, to them, your Heart resign, And you’ll no more, no more repine.
To Eugenia
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Methinks I see the Golden Age agen, Drawn to the Life by your ingenious Pen: Then Kings were Shepherds, and with equal Care ‘Twixt Men and Sheep, did their Concernments share: There was no need of Rods and Axes then, Crooks rul’d the Sheep, and Virtue rul’d the Men: Then Laws were useless, for they knew no Sin, From Guilt secur’d by Innocence within: No Passion but the noblest, fill’d each Breast, They were too good to entertain the rest Love, which is now become an Art, a Trade, It self to them with all its Sweets convey’d; Indulgent Nature their kind Tutress prov’d, And as she taught, without Deceit, they lov’d: Thus did they live; thus they employ’d their Hours; Beneath cool Shades, on Banks of fragrant Flow’rs, They sat and listen’d, while their Poets sung The Praises of the Brave, the Wise, the Young;
Song: To Lerinda
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Cease, Dear Lerinda,cease admiring Why Crouds and Noise I disapprove; What e’er I see abroad is tiring; let us to some Cell remove; Where all alone our selves enjoying, Enrich’d with Innocence and Peace, On noblest Themes our Thoughts employing, Let us our inward Joys increase: And still the happy Taste pursuing, Raise our Love and Friendship higher, And thus the sacred Flames renewing, In Extasies of Bliss expire.
Song
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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When Daphne first her Shepherd saw, A sudden Trembling seiz’d her; Honour her wandring Looks did awe, She durst not view what pleas’d her. When at her Feet he sighing lay, She found her Heart complying; Yet wou’d not to her Love give way, To save her Swain from dying. The little God stood laughing by To see her dextrous feigning; He bid the blushing Fair comply, The Shepherd leave complaining.
The Wish
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue’s Laws is true, And does her nicest Rules pursue; One Pious, Lib’ral, Just and Brave, And to his Passions not a Slave; Who full of Honour, void of Pride, Will freely praise, and freely chide; But not indulge the smallest Fault, Nor entertain one slighting Thought: Who still the same will ever prove, Will still instruct, and still will love: In whom I safely may confide, And with him all my Cares divide: Who has a large capacious Mind, Join’d with a Knowledge unconfin’d; A Reason bright, a Judgment true, A Wit both quick, and solid too: Who can of all things talk with Ease, And whose Converse will ever please: Who charm’d with Wit, and inward Graces, Despises Fools with tempting Faces; And still a beauteous Mind does prize Above the most enchanting Eyes: I would not envy Queens their State, Nor once desire a happier Fate.
Friendship
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Friendship is a Bliss Divine, And does with radiant Lustre shine: But where can that blest Pair be found That are with equal Fetters bound? Whose Hearts are one, whose Souls combine, And neither know or Mine, or Thine; Who’ve but one Joy, one Grief, one Love, And by the self same Dictates move; Who’ve not a Frailty unreveal’d, Nor yet a Thought that is conceal’d; Who freely one another blame, And strive to raise each other’s Fame; Who’re always just, sincere, and kind, By Virtue, not by Wealth, combin’d; Whose Friendship nothing can abate, Nor Poverty, nor adverse Fate, Nor Death it self: for when above, They’ll never, never, cease to love, But with a Passion more refin’d, Become one pure celestial Mind.
The Resolution
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Yes, dear Philistris,in my lov’d Retreat I will the Malice of my Stars defeat: I’ve not deserv’d my Fate, and therefore dare To brave my Fortune when ‘tis most severe: While Innocence and Honour guard my Breast, I shall in spite of my worst Foes be blest: In spite of all the Rage the Furies can inspire, When into mortal Breasts they breath infernal Fire, With Eyes that dart malignant Horrors round, And Voices which affright with their tremendous Sound, They fiercely may the cruel Fight begin, And hope by Violence the Day to win; But all in vain; I’ll smiling ward each Blow, And where my Duty calls undaunted go: Secure within, their Shock I dare sustain, My Souls impassive, and can feel no Pain: I’ve secret Joys, Delights to them unknown, In Solitude I never am alone: Books are the best Companions I can find, At once they please, at once instruct the Mind.
Song
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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ABvainly wishing, gazing, dying, The fond Narcissuslay, Kind Echo, to his Sighs replying, These words was heard to say; Ah! wretched Swain, by Pride betray’d: That Pois’ner of the Mind; That Voice by none but Fools obey’d, That Test of Souls design’d: That dang’rous Ill which ne’er is found, In such as with Minerva’sGifts are crown’d. What will you do when Time decaying That lovely beauteous Face, And you the Laws of Fate obeying, Must to old Age give place? Old Age, which comes with Swiftness on: Your hasty Minutes fly; Some part of what you were is gone, Deforming Death is nigh: When Time and Pain your Charms abate, How will you then this Chrystal Mirror hate?
A Dialogue between Virgiland Mavius
Authors: Ezell Margaret J M 
Published: November 2023

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Mawius.Where are those sacred Lawrels now Which did above adorn thy Brow? And where the mighty Mara’sFame? Here Maviusis as great a Name. Virgil.Tho’ me the Ghosts will not obey, Yet those Above due Honours pay: There I’m by all the Wits rever’d, And still by ev’ry Maviusfear’d. Mine, and Homer’sawful Shade, By the learn’d World supreme are made; There, like th’ infernal Judges, we Can punish, or Rewards decree. Mavius.Can this a real Good bestow? Or make you happier here below? A starving Man may dream of Meat, May in his Sleep choice Viands eat: And Beggers, shivering with Cold, May dream of Robes, of Fires, and Gold: And Men, when tost on raging Seas, May dream of Safety, Calms, and Ease: But when they wake, are still the same, Their Bliss from Sportive Fancy came.