Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry Building Karibu became Sana’s opportunity

Building Karibu became Sana’s opportunity to bind the disparate elements of his life together

no more personal attachments

For most of the twentieth century

000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937

and spiritually

Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry Building Karibu became Sana’s opportunityWhat is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature, and how changing notions of racial identity helped to shape modern consciousness. Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expressions in European culture,