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  Untitled= Podcast A’Shyria Montgomery African American Literature Professor Harris 5/6/2025 Major Project While reading the book Sula, many questions pondered my mind about mother/daughter relationships. By having my great-grandmother still in my life, it hit me to do a project about generational love being passed down throughout generations. Throughout the interview, we get different views of being loved differently. Sitting down for an interview with my great- grandmother, grandmother, and mother was more than just a conversation—it was a journey through generations of love, resilience, and wisdom. As each person spoke, their words wove a tapestry of care and strength, revealing how deeply love had shaped their lives and how intentionally they had passed it down. As a black teenage girl, receiving love within your family especially from your mother is very hard to receive. I wanted to get the point of view of them getting love from one another. Hearing each person's answer and ...

  Love Through the looking Prism Playlist  May 01, 2025  Sheriah Williams  Love through the looking prism  Major project  Dr. Jaleesa Harris  5-1-2025  Love through the looking Prism explores the different outlooks of what proper loves looks  like with Love Ethics that Bell Hook's discuss in Salvation. I choose to explore songs that  talk about: Familial Love, Spiritual Love, and Romantic Love.  Spiritual Love songs:  1. I need thee- Annie Sherwood and Robert Lowery  2. Endow me- James Moore   3. Long as I got king Jesus- Vickie Winans  In Salvation, bell hooks first establishes that love ethics is first learned from the Bible, and  the spiritual aspect sets a firm foundation for what proper love ethics looks like by  honoring God and God loving you despite different trials and tribulations that happen in life  and even between you and God. I firstly chose "I Need Thee" because it's an old hym...

  Last Name 1  Ja’Nyra Hubbard  Dr.Harris  ENGL2017  5/1/25  Black Love as Resistance: Historical Contexts of Intimacy during Slavery and Segregation  The story of Black love has received little mainstream attention, but it established itself  as an essential force of defiance and emancipation through time. Black people experienced  systematic dehumanization and separation from their families along with communities during  slavery and segregation, while love provided comfort and maintained a vital declaration of  human dignity. Romantic and familial alongside communal bonds collected strength and gave  comfort and security to Black people who endured endless oppression. The paper analyzes Black  love as a survival strategy and liberation framework through research on enslaved and segregated  Black communities. The paper relies on recent scholarly studies to demonstrate why black  communities valued love historica...

  Ambria Miller  Dr. Harris  ENGL 2017- 65125 5/1/2025 Introduction Mixtape Theme:  How can love alone heal generational trauma or do black communities have to seek professional methods or even therapy as an act of liberation to gain self love? This mixtape explores the idea of how can love alone to heal generational trauma or do black communities have to seek professional methods or even therapy as an act of liberation to gain self love? Healing generational trauma is a complex process that takes place within the Black community beyond the limits of love itself. While love certainly forms the basis of connection and resiliency, it becomes apparent that professional therapeutic intervention is necessary to deal with the wounds inflicted by centuries of systemic oppression. In her book Salvation: Black People and Love, bell hooks draw attention to the potent role of love in the lives of African Americans. She believes love can act as stimulant toward personal and comm...

  Katie Varner Professor Harris English 2017 May 1, 2025                                                                                        A Love Ethic Through Sound        Agape is commonly known as the “universal love” or the “love ethic.” A love ethic is ethical that includes all aspects of love including responsibility, respect, trust, and etc. Love ethic is a concept introduced by an author named bell hooks. Throughout her writings she believes that, “A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fu...

 Thomas Carter Dr. Harris ENGL 2017 – 65125 1 May 2025 Mixtape Theme: The Love of Black Mothers Introduction This mixtape explores the love Black mothers. Sometimes their love is soft and warm, and sometimes it is hard and full of sacrifice. Their love is shaped by the world around them through experiences such as poverty, racism, loss, and survival. Music helps us understand this love. Songs about Black motherhood give us feelings, stories, and truths that speak to how deep and complex this love can be. In Sula by Toni Morrison, we see different kinds of mothers such as Eva, Helene, and Hannah who all love in their own way. Some are strict, some are distant, and some are bold. These songs help us hear their hearts. By looking at 13 tracks that talk about Black mothers, we can better understand the beauty and pain of mothering in a world that does not always care for Black women. These songs and this novel together show us how strong, messy, and powerful Black maternal love truly i...

  Markaylon Carroway Dr. Harris ENGL 2017-65125 1 May 2025 More Than Enough Sacrifice is a word we all grew up hearing. We might regard it as surrendering, like giving away the last piece of pizza or letting someone else take a turn first. But when we get down to it, sacrifice is much more than that, particularly for mothers. The sacrifices mothers make go unnoticed, all the time. It’s the kind that hums in the background of everyday life. It’s the purest form of love, and nobody has taught me that better than my mom in my life. Sacrifice, by definition, is the giving up of something valuable for the sake of something or someone considered more important or worthy. It is exactly what has happened, time and time again, with my mom, me, and my siblings. From turning down better jobs out of state, to eating only when we have enough, to taking on all the bills and responsibility without a complaint — she has been there. And she’s doing it not for attention or accolades but simply becau...