black people at a time when they were constantly silenced. Gordimer, as a white woman, speaks about the experiences of black people because she acknowledges the fact that her privilege gives her a voice which the world is interested in hearing. This essay will discuss Nadine Gordimer’s life, and how she constantly worked to make South Africa a safe,
incarcerations to one another “both very similar to one another” as she believes that the system of mass incarcerations is a similar caste system to the Jim crow through the way it focuses on discriminating certain individuals in society, based on color, beliefs and race. She stresses that “The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.” Alexander
Chris Shea ENG 398 Professor Aimee Pozorski 10/28/15 Sybil, This is Not Who I Am. In chapter 24 of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, Invisible Man meets a woman named Sybil and has a drunken sexual encounter with her at her home, or so one would believe if one simply reads the surface of the novel. However, a closer reading would suggest that Sybil actually isn’t in love with him. Rather, she is actually using him for her own sexual gain. Reading this chapter in such a way, one would be able