Kayla's First Post

My name is Kayla Eason, and I am a junior, Creative Writing major, at the University of Redlands, in Southern California. The purpose of this blog is to explore the facets of injustice and the quarrels of freedom by examining history and literature through texts written by African American authors. I wish to inspect the aspects of human nature that strives to control, and inversely, strives to over-come control for the betterment of the individual soul. I want to understand how inferiority dehumanizes the "lesser" as well as the "superior,"and perhaps attepmt to fathom how or why the idea of inferiority between whites and blacks became an obsessive and rigid notion in society. Also, as a writer, I am always eager to study the craft of literature. This blog project was created as an assignment for the class African American Literature 233-01, Fall 2010.