![]() ![]() Jesus loves the little children of the world. “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. The more we understand one another, the more we value one another- and that makes for a better world. How many of us understand why the Jewish people celebrate it? Why is it called the Festival of Lights? Why is it celebrated for eight days? Did Jesus celebrate Hanukkah? That is your homework- go to the internet and find out the answers to these questions.Īs long as the practices of a culture do not honor the devil or celebrate evil, we should honor them and seek to learn about them. For instance, right now we are in the celebration of Hanukkah. But, instead, let’s make an attempt to understand the history, tradition, and holidays of other cultures. ![]() We seem to enjoy sampling the foods of other cultures, but that seems to be as far as we want to go. It defeats the purpose of us being different. We seem to think that the races must all be the same in order for us to get along. We should respect and honor the things passed down from one generation to the next to preserve the cultural heritage and ethnic identity of a people. Of course, my background will be different than someone with ancestors from Latin America or from Africa. What makes us unique should be valued and not marginalized.įor example, my ancestors mostly came from Germany. Our traditions and cultural differences should be celebrated. He enjoys the differences we all bring to the table. God views us all as equals, regardless of the color of our skin. I Samuel 16:7 (New Living Translation, NLT) People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. He sees us the same and loves us the same. It was a simple little song to speak of how God looks at the nationalities and ethnic groups of the world. Jesus loves the little children of the world.” Maybe you sang it too. ![]() Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. “For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.There was a song that was sung when I was a child, that went something like this. But when I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. In her lifetime, Christian truly pioneered the birth of black women’s literary criticism and theory. Her 1980 study, “Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition,” was the first of its kind to look at black feminist literature from the nineteenth century to contemporary times. Her theories provided a foundation for black women to assert control over their own image in American literature. "Nobody did more to bring black women writers into academic and popular recognition.”įor so long, the majority of representations of black women in literature were crafted by white writers. “She was a path-breaking scholar,” said Percy Hintzen, chair of the UC Berkeley department of African American studies. She was pivotal in creating the university’s African American studies department and, in 1978, was the first African American to be granted tenure. In 1972, two years after graduating from Columbia, Christian became an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. Her exploration of these writings would be realized later in her career - she was one of the first scholars to bring the works of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker to the attention of academia. While pursuing a graduate degree in literature at Columbia University, Christian became friends with Langston Hughes and was introduced to the works of many black writers. Virgin Islands, she dedicated her life to changing ideas about race, gender and class, particularly around the representation of black women in American literature, ultimately asking, “who gets to tell their stories?” That all changed with Barbara Christian.įrom a young age, Christian was an avid reader, questioning why there were no African American or Afro Caribbean women included in the books she read. But just 50 years ago, this was far from a common way to engage with art, culture and literature. The content we consume and its authenticity are called into question on a daily basis. It has a constituency of more than two billion believers. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused of all faiths. Barbara Christian: Feminist literary critic Christianity, major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century ce. ![]()
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