The Color of Suffering: Black and Blue

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav’d of light. – William Blake, “The Little Black Boy,” Songs of Innocence (1789) Othering is built right into the Latin word for More

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