Intros Flashcards
(2 cards)
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Underground Railroad Introduction
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Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is a powerful display of American slavery, using historical realism to explore the brutal realities of racial oppression. Through the harsh journey Cora went through, as a young enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation, Whitehead demonstrates the physical and psychological toll of slavery on a person.
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Surplus Value Introduction
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David C. Ward’s Surplus Value is a reflection on the decline of the industrial America and its impact on the working class. Its shows Michigan’s crashing manufacturing industry, the poem offers a deeply personal engagement yet it adds a political view on capitalism and its cost on human.
