Category: Non fiction 5

El Dorado, City of Black Gold

by ap | Apr 19, 2020 | Aliyah Khan, Issue 5, Non fiction 5, PREE 5 | 1 |

King Sugar dreams long gone since slavery and indentureship. Production drop mightily, the European Union ent want Caribbean sugar no more, and Guyana facilities backward and rightly cripple by labor strikes.

Bullshit, Sweet-talk, and Hindu Nationalism

by ap | Apr 18, 2020 | Highlights, Kris Singh, Non fiction 5, PREE 5 | 0 |

KRIS SINGH

An extended rumination on cows, the cow’s central place in Indian culture, Hindu culture, being an East Indian West Indian and other intersecting dilemmas.

Jewellery for Re-Membering in the Afterlife of Slavery: A View From the Disappearing Beach

by ap | Apr 17, 2020 | Highlights, Maziki Thame, Non fiction 5, PREE 5 | 1 |

MAZIKI THAME

A lyrical yet hard-hitting essay about erosions–of a beach central to the lives of many Jamaicans, of ways of life, of relationships.

On Hidden Scars and the Passive Voice[1]

by ap | Apr 17, 2020 | Highlights, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Non fiction 5, PREE 5, Revisit | 1 |

NAHIR I. OTAÑO GRACIA

I was watching Spike Lee’s documentary When the Levees Broke. The most powerful scene for me was when Lee shows footage after footage of news anchors calling the people of New Orleans “refugees.”