Here Comes the Sun: Deconstructed Student EssaysMain MenuAFR 283: Islands, Archipelagoes and Black Women's Literature“The islands provide me, from a technical point of view, a microcosm in which can be seen in sharp relief many of the basic problems and conflicts which beset oppressed peoples everywhere.” -Paule Marshall, “Shaping the World of My Art”Critical VocabularyLanding page for Critical Vocab TermsUnessaysThis is the launchpad for deconstructed essaysRandi Gill-Sadler4a914792fbfb2078ef84e08319c412098bd9b469
The Future
12024-04-23T18:16:05+00:00Kasha Salia7f90ed33d9889544c9d4fec77933be51da30924313plain2024-05-09T03:39:11+00:00Kasha Salia7f90ed33d9889544c9d4fec77933be51da309243Thandi is Margot's younger sister. Through Margot's boss Alphonso, Thandi attends a private school on the island that is distant culturally from River Bank, where Thandi lives. On top of the cultural difference, Thandi experiences colorism which drives her to begin bleaching her skin. Thandi feels pressure from both her mother and her sister to do well in school and become a doctor. When her crush on Charles, a street boy, develops into a relationship, Thandi finds herself sacrificing her education for her love of art and her desire to be with Charles. After learning about, Thandi's childhood sexual abuse, Charles goes to fight her molester. After the fight turns deadly and a warrant is put out for Charles's arrest, Thandi goes to great lengths to find Charles and be with him again despite the protest of her family. Thandi's perspective represents the pressure on Black women to behave and look a certain way. Thandi's desire to be lighter is a result of a lack of social value, but Thandi learns the hard way that being lighter is simply not enough to suit neocolonial beauty standards. Whether or not Thandi reinforces this pressure on her future children is unknown but such matters are products of generational biases and will take internal reversal before it makes a widespread difference.
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