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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Lindsey Birdsall
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-07T22:18:44Z
dc.date.available2021-09-07T22:18:44Z
dc.date.issued2010-04-04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/6282
dc.description.abstractThis essay collection examines my experience as the single mother of a biracial child and uses it as impetus for posing larger questions about race and class in America. The piece "Good Hair" outlines my first attempt at explaining my son's racial origins to him, "Peacocks" examines my choice to become a single mother by juxtaposing it with our culture's mythology about spinsters and brides, and "Ursus Americanus" uses the initiating incident of a bear roosting in a city tree to examine the causes and consequences of human cultural and class migrations in Rochester, NY. Although grounded in the personal, these essays use techniques of accumulation, juxtaposition and non-linear chronology to reveal the fundamental misunderstandings that lead to White America's problematic constructions of Black and Brown.
dc.subjectCreative Essay
dc.subjectBiracial
dc.subjectRace And Class In America
dc.titleUrsus Americanus
dc.typethesis
refterms.dateFOA2021-09-07T22:18:44Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Brockport
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.description.degreelevelMaster of Arts (MA)
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.description.publicationtitleEnglish Master’s Theses
dc.contributor.organizationThe College at Brockport
dc.languate.isoen_US


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