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CHAPTER EIGHT Mystery is My Middle Name There was rock music blaring from somewhere inside The Tisalton Plastics, Glass, & Other Salvage Materials Yard. I could hear it clear as day as we coasted past the big new shiny sign then skidded to halt, dropping our bikes in front of Twist’s trailer. Seth and I inched toward the office through piles of parts and smashed cars missing back tires. “Evening, kids,” Eli, Twist’s slow-talking uncle grinned. His carrot-colored hair gleamed in the sun as…

gained momentum, African American artists seized the scene and created pieces that reflected their history of oppression and embraced the progress towards attaining equality. Focusing on two works in particular, Betye Saar’s iconic The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972), and Richard Hunt’s sculpture the Outgrown Pyramid #1 (1973), will help uncover the plight of African American’s at that time. These artists both demonstrate a keen awareness of how their art will operate in their surrounding…

One such problematic image is the mammy figure. Alma Jean Bilingslea-Brown discusses "Aunt Jemima," one of the most notorious mammy figures, and notes that Aunt Jemima was seen as the "quintessential mammy, the overweight, heavy-busted, strong, and religious black woman who cooks, cleans, and nurtures," and notes how she became "the representation of the white-identified…

contemporary ways. For example, the image of Aunt Jemima, a mammy, which is a black character that is historically known for being the caring house servant for the white family, is a caricature that Charles often critiques in his work. Similar to Charles, Colescott plays upon the notion of Aunt Jemima in his painting Cactus Jack at El Dorado where he paints a well endowed black woman who cooks pancakes, which is clearly a reference to the famous Aunt Jemima pancake mix brand. Both Charles and…

According to the Oxford dictionary a hero is defined as a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. My Aunt displays this definition of a hero by cleaning up the beaches and harbor on the Massachusetts Bay. She does this by giving up her time and resources and going out to volunteer to clean the Bay. My Aunt Aria lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She immediately went to university when she moved to America and got a master’s degree in Environmental…

During Christine’s perspective of Aunt Ida through her teenage years we discover Aunt Ida favors her son. Christine says “She wouldn’t let us call her Mom, since she hadn’t been married, but she claimed we both favored her side. That was a joke. She was ugly the way some people get, each part of her too big or off- center, like a woman slapped together out of branches and mud” (144). Christine sees her Mother, Aunt Ida as an ugly woman who is never pretty enough to become married. During this…

tale of a nameless aunt. She describes the way in which women who are impregnated out of wedlock are treated in China, in this case, utterly erased from memory. Her father 's sister committed suicide after all of the villagers in her rural Chinese village destroyed their home, taking the baby along with her. Then her name is forgotten, her line is severed, and she is denied the sacred burial rites of the Chinese. Kingston reflects on this harsh treatment and wonders at how her aunt was…

If You Give a Girl a Waffle: An Autobiographical Essay Waffles are simple. My life at this time was anything but simple. My mom went to the store that day and brought home a box of Hungry Jack pancake mix. She knows that I like the Hungry Jack brand the best even if we already had a nearly full box of Bisquick hiding in the lazy susan. I like perfection and I don’t handle change well so I got out the measuring cups and portioned all the ingredients out and let my boyfriend Tristin added the…

relationship as a friendly and familial one (Turner 44-45). Aunt Jemima originated as a minstrel show character portrayed by a white man in blackface and drag. Christopher Rutt, co-founder of the ready-to-make pancake mix, used Aunt Jemima to market his product to appeal to his local, southern consumers (Behnken and Smithers 23). Using a mammy figure to sell their product was a success. The image of Aunt Jemima sold the idea of comfort. Aunt Jemima pancakes are fast and easy to make, almost as…

through the struggles and be successful. In “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer is working hard to make a needlepoint pattern of dancing tigers. Through the tigers, we see how Aunt Jennifer is stuck in a male-dominant world, and wants to be free and proud like the tigers. Rich uses diction and symbolism to convey the message that no matter who hold you back, there’s always a way to push through. The author uses diction to contrast Aunt Jennifer and the tigers. The…