An Interdisciplinary Public Humanities Project by Emory College Students

Category: Poetry

Searching for Justice

Marlie GoldenNov 7, 2022

chains justice slavery america social capitalism

A note from the author: This project was inspired by Walter Johnson’s article, “To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice.” While I was familiar with many of the topics surrounding social injustice that we discussed in PHIL 220W,...

Issue #2 Poetry

On American Reality

Saanya KapasiMay 8, 2022

(Or The Fiction We Tell Ourselves) $300 and two suitcases each sarees became skirts kurtas became cufflinks sure, there were struggles insensitive questions, side comments but we blend in we become appealing models, even now every time we go back...

Issue #2 Poetry

Becoming Other

Spencer WangMay 8, 2022

A note from the author: This poem is about me growing up Asian in a predominantly white community and the feelings of a pervasive isolation from not fitting into white American culture. I wanted to express how this sense of...

Issue #2 Poetry

Kimbap: A Sonnet and a Story

Kevin KimMay 8, 2022

Iris Marion-Young contextualizes oppression via the use of five “faces”: exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. Cultural imperialism is the one that resonated with my experiences the most. She defines it as the “universalization of a dominant group’s experience...