https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson ENG 647 Group Work en-us 2022-02-06 17:24:41 UTC 2022-02-11 00:15:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://m5.paperblog.com/i/50/506924/helene-johnson-invocation-T-sm0TXn.jpeg cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031647293 2022-02-06 17:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031647293 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031647559 2022-02-06 17:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031647559 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031647722 2022-02-06 17:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031647722 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031651374 2022-02-06 17:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2031651374 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2035901797 Shows this in the way the Black man dances--being aware of his perception, but not caring anyway]]> 2022-02-08 16:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2035901797 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2038135302 Double/Triple Consciousness
Signifying/Worrying the Line
Vernacular Language
Backlash to the "Politics of Respectability"
Misogynoir
Black Social Uplift]]> 2022-02-09 15:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2038135302 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2038143338 Johnson using vernacular language ]]> 2022-02-09 15:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2038143338 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2038146883 Challenging the controlling image of little Black boys]]> 2022-02-09 15:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2038146883 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041365926 the emblems or insignia of royalty, especially the crown, scepter, and other ornaments used at a coronation.]]> 2022-02-10 23:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041365926 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041367511 "I know the crowd thought he was coo-coo"]]> 2022-02-10 23:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041367511 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041368963 "And the way your hair shines in the spotlight / Like it was the real stuff" 

Potential allusion to the conk hairstyle Black men used to wear. If so, it gives sense that Johnson is wishing for a more authentic self and that Black men didn't have to conform.]]> 2022-02-10 23:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041368963 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041370166 Specifically within the lines, "The grins, the nods, the bowin'- It sure wasn't no picnic": 

We can see how Helene Johnson expresses her hyperawareness towards the confined opportunities in society for Black women. ]]> 2022-02-10 23:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041370166 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041370445 bottle of sand = cultural representation of something else "taken" from African]]> 2022-02-10 23:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041370445 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041371197 Ironically calling out the 'minstrel' image that the poem creates towards the boy, but challenging that kind of control by also acknowledging that she can see beyond that image.]]> 2022-02-11 00:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041371197 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041371788 The business of the first part signifying the roles Black people were delegated to. Themes of blue collar work and how that contrasts mobility]]> 2022-02-11 00:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041371788 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041374567 uses reference to Lafayette to display her influences]]> 2022-02-11 00:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041374567 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041377141 Title "Poem" contrasts poetry being a high art with the actions and depictions of a Black boy]]> 2022-02-11 00:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041377141 https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041381194 -Homemaker(s)
-Marriage/Wifehood***
-Factory work that was available ]]> 2022-02-11 00:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/helenejohnson/wish/2041381194