Titles
A song or service for the dead and the name of this long poem.
What is Requiem?
American author who wrote about the idealization of white beauty and how it affects the identity of black girls
Who is Toni Morrison?
Stalin's attempt to rid himself or real or imagined rivals
What is the Great Purge?
"Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness...that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike."
What is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison?
This debut novel takes place in 1940-41 in Ohio.
What is The Bluest Eye?
To avoid danger, this Russian author and a friend memorized her literary expression of suffering during the Great Purge.
Who is Anna Akhmatova?
the act of attacking the appearance, identity, and culture of a people
What is racism?
"I remained silent, wondering whether I had underestimated the enormity of my crime.... Were the poor white passengers going to die as a result?"
What is Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane?
Named for a time the author can never forget nor let others forget
What is Night?
This South African author's work illuminates the cruelty of Apartheid.
Who is Mark Mathabane?
the systematic capture, torture, and murder of Jewish people under Hitler's regime
What is The Holocaust?
"I learned how faces fall, / How terror darts from under eyelids, / How suffering traces lines / Of stiff cuneiform on cheeks,"
What is Requiem by Anna Akhmatova?
The title is an allusion to this quote from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose _______ _____________ would smell as sweet."
What is "By Any Other Name"?
This Indian author's childhood account highlights the conflict and cultural differences between the British and the Indians.
Who is Santha Rama Rau?
triggered by the 1929 Stock Market crash, it is considered the longest and most severe economic downturn in modern history
What is The Great Depression?
"I understood it perfectly, and I remember it all very clearly. But I put it happily away, because it had all happened to a girl called Cynthia, and I never was really particularly interested in her."
What is "By Any Other Name," by Santha Rama Rau?
This title contains an Arabic word used by nonwhites in South Africa to insult blacks.
What is "Kaffir Boy"?
From Romania, this author waited 10 years to publish the story of his people's suffering.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
a policy of racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites in South Africa
What is Apartheid?
"The doors were closed. We were caught in a trap, right up to our necks. The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed."
What is Night by Elie Wiesel?