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Posts Tagged: blackness

Rumpus Exclusive: “Dark Girls”

By Kendra Allen

April 2nd, 2019

When I was born I came out looking just like them.

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Tags: black bodies, black women, blackness, book excerpt, dermatologist, exclusive excerpt, Kendra Allen, michael jackson, race, Racism, Skin, skin color, University of Iowa Press, When You Learn the Alphabet

The Conversation: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Danez Smith

By The Conversation

March 26th, 2016

The South is my favorite cousin.

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Tags: Alabama, american south, blackness, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Danez Smith, Deep South, Georgia, Great Migration, Louisiana, Midwest, Mississippi, National Poetry Month, poetry, Southern, Southern states, The Conversation, the midwest, The South, writers of color

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