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Kirkhof Center 2263

Start Date

11-2-2013 12:00 PM

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As an African/African-American Studies minor I’ve taken courses that have expounded on many incidents in the history of peoples of African descent. Ones that continue to resonate with me are those that have dealt with the Middle Passage and/or slavery. Today, I would like to make it known that Octavia Butler’s Kindred was indisputably a super-duper read. Strangely, I both hate and love how Butler arranges Kindred. She builds up the brutal acts of violence against the slaves and describes the aftermath in such a way that she puts me as the reader, in the shoes of those characters. I found the book hard to put down because I was yearning to see what happened next, yet hard to pick back up because of the vivid portrayals of inhumane treatment.

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Feb 11th, 12:00 PM

The Past, yet the Present: The Legacy of Slavery In the United States

Kirkhof Center 2263

As an African/African-American Studies minor I’ve taken courses that have expounded on many incidents in the history of peoples of African descent. Ones that continue to resonate with me are those that have dealt with the Middle Passage and/or slavery. Today, I would like to make it known that Octavia Butler’s Kindred was indisputably a super-duper read. Strangely, I both hate and love how Butler arranges Kindred. She builds up the brutal acts of violence against the slaves and describes the aftermath in such a way that she puts me as the reader, in the shoes of those characters. I found the book hard to put down because I was yearning to see what happened next, yet hard to pick back up because of the vivid portrayals of inhumane treatment.