An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry s
The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks s
Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata s
The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee s
Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ( Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres,
AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States and how these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines. The critics conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American groups are feminized (in the sense of being marked under the sign of the feminine).
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Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, works at the presidential recount at the Wisconsin Center convention center in Milwaukee on Nov. 25, 2020. Woodall-Vogg says that when faced with the monumental task of running an election, “When there’s no one else to do it, you just … do it.” Sara Stathas for Wisconsin Watch
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Election workers across the nation have been threatened with violence, accused of tampering with results of the Nov. 3 election, and some have battled a virus that’s killed nearly 300,000 people nationwide. For these people, the desire to serve their communities has come with unexpected tensions because of a bitterly contentious presidential race and
A pandemic. False fraud claims. A misplaced flash drive. How Milwaukee elections chief led high-pressure vote count.
Facing intense scrutiny, Claire Woodall-Vogg fought against ‘racially motivated’ attempts to suppress voting in the 2020 election
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Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, works at the presidential recount at the Wisconsin Center convention center in Milwaukee on Nov. 25, 2020. Woodall-Vogg says that when faced with the monumental task of running an election, “When there s no one else to do it, you just … do it.”
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By Nora Eckert
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Before we get to the latest installment of our new action-adventure series,
This Week In Sedition, we should pause to salute two angry voices of reason. The first is Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who came to our notice here in the shebeen when, as one of his first acts as AG, he took a 12-pound sledge to Holy Mother Church s stonewall that it had erected around the sex criminals in its clergy. On Thursday, he issued a reply to Texas AG Ken Paxton, who may not have noticed that his case for overturning the election had been disemboweled because the FBI dropped a subpoena on his ass. Shapiro s reply contained one of the finest sentences that I have read in a long time.