This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
There is a odd assumption in America that all people of African heritage are black, and part of being black doesn't mean being from Central or South America. I wonder how much of that is from media representations. Do the these South and Central American countries try to present themselves as more Eurocentric?
There is a trop in literature about the mixed character, it'd be cool to read some other perspectives of non American people of color dealing with their identities and cultural clashes.
Very powerful.
ReplyDeleteThere is a odd assumption in America that all people of African heritage are black, and part of being black doesn't mean being from Central or South America. I wonder how much of that is from media representations. Do the these South and Central American countries try to present themselves as more Eurocentric?
There is a trop in literature about the mixed character, it'd be cool to read some other perspectives of non American people of color dealing with their identities and cultural clashes.