For the Fall 2022 special issue of MQR, “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” we reached out to a range of esteemed authors to write short essays that respond to Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again.” For more from the special folio, “On Langston Hughes’s ‘Let America Be America Again,’” you can purchase the …
The United States is a nation with a deeply entrenched caste system. To understand American history, especially the recent rise in populism and right-wing extremism, an understanding of its caste system is essential. The populism and identity politics ushered in by Donald Trump are the culmination of this desire for revenge against those espousing anti-caste …
For the Fall 2022 special issue of MQR, “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” we reached out to a range of esteemed authors to write short essays that respond to Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again.” America is America: it’s a tautology. But it’s also a falsehood: America is not and never was the …
A LUCILLE CLIFTON–INSPIRED STERLING BROWN TEACHING FABLE For the Fall 2022 special issue of MQR, “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” we reached out to a range of esteemed authors to write short essays that respond to Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again.” “Let America be America again.” Sterling Brown began addressing the aspiring, …
For a while now I have been struggling to write about the summer of 1972, when I was nine years old. I lived in a little, semi-detached brick house in Washington, DC, with my parents, my seventy-eight-year-old grandmother, and three much older siblings—the nearest in age to me would turn twenty that fall. That summer …
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