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Delroy Lindo Reflects on His Mother’s Journey to Canada | Finding Your R...

In this clip from Finding Your Roots Season 12, Delroy Lindo joins Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to learn new details about his family’s past.

Researchers uncover the passenger list of the ship Arcadia, which carried Delroy’s mother, Anna, to Canada. Seeing her name on the document gives him a direct connection to a defining moment in her life and offers new insight into his family’s journey.

“Seeing this is profoundly affirming for feelings that I have and have had about my mom’s history and about how my mom lived her life.”

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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"The thing about Black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up."

Henry Louis Gates - American Literary Critic

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A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

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The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—these writers used words to create a livable world—a "home" —for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. https://amzn.to/43My6NH

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(via PLAYING, NOT JOKING, WITH LANGUAGE - The New York Times)

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Five Literary Theories and Their Limitations

Literary theory has its limitations. Formalism? Perfectionists insisting that lit has nothing to do with race or gender. Psychoanalytic criticism? The same problems Freud has, and then some. We can't dismantle history. But we sure need to know it.

This is going to be one of my last posts on literary theory, I promise. At least for a bit. Well, maybe until I finish reading David Herman’s essay “Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution” (fascinating stuff about the mind itself as a product, as well as a producer, of discourse). We’ll see. But first. a toast to some of the most compelling literary theories, the fundamentals of…

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