Happy birthday to Toni Morrison. She would have been 89 years old today, if she were still among the living.
to Paule Marshall—has joined that great pantheon of our beloved “dead” Black Women, I can only think of them as still “living,” as vibrant, haunting and fully embodied in the flesh as Beloved was for her formerly enslaved community.
Of the former students I spoke with that day, Simone’s text cemented one of the most important aspects of Morrison’s legacy: how teaching Morrison’s novels invite opportunities for mentoring. a charge to translate its mandates about power and healing. Statements like Schoolteacher’s retort that “definitions belong to the definers not the defined” require that students see and question how language can shape or remake an individual’s subjectivity.
Part of my affinity for “Recitatif” lies in the story’s curious structure: it’s a tale of two women, one white and one Black, who meet in an orphanage and several times over the course of their lives. Although their relationship is tenuous it is a significant touchstone for both of their very different lives.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead is the #BlackMommyActivist and an associate professor of communication and African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland. Recently selected for the Essence Woke 100 List, she is the award-winning host of “Today With Dr. Kaye” on WEAA 88.9 FM, and her newest book,Reading Toni Morrison’s work makes me feel brave. Teaching her work makes me feel strong.
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