{"id":19227,"date":"2011-12-24T20:22:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19227"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:22:40","slug":"decoding-e-shockley%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cmesostics-from-the-american-grammar-book%e2%80%9d-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19227","title":{"rendered":"Decoding E. Shockley\u2019s \u201cmesostics from the american grammar book\u201d Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siueblackstudies.com\/2011\/10\/decoding-e-shockleys-mesostics-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Decoding E. Shockley\u2019s \u201cmesostics from the american grammar book\u201d Pt. 2<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siueblackstudies.com\" target=\"_blank\">SIUE Black Studies Blog<\/a><br \/>\nSouthern Illinois University, Edwardsville<br \/>\n2011-10-13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cindy Lyles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/english.rutgers.edu\/faculty\/facultyprofiles\/297-eshockley.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Evie] Shockley\u2019s<\/a> bold choice to write a poem using only names of black women, her stanza construction also makes a daring statement in \u201cmesostics for the american grammar book.\u201d The names are intentionally grouped in specific stanzas, which allows for intriguing discussion in the continuation of this decoding process.<\/p>\n<p>[Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siueblackstudies.com\/2011\/10\/decoding-evie-shockleys-mesostics-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Decoding \u201cmesostics from the american grammar book\u201d Pt. 1<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cdoro<strong>T<\/strong>hy dandridge \/ yellow ma<strong>R<\/strong>y peazant \/ h<strong>A<\/strong>lle berry \/ hel<strong>G<\/strong>a crane \/ mar<strong>I<\/strong>ah carey \/ <strong>C<\/strong>lare kendry\u201d all appear in a stanza together. These women share the commonality of being light-skinned, which they are noted for in their individual cases. That observation alone warrants further examination, especially when considering that the vertical phrase \u201cTRAGIC\u201d traverses the names.<\/p>\n<p>Shockley purposely selects the women for the \u201cTRAGIC\u201d stanza, as each one represents a version of the tragic mulatto. Actress Dorothy Dandridge portrayed variations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic mulatto<\/a> throughout her film career. The character of Yellow Mary Peazant was a product of rape yielding her of biracial ancestry. Both Halle Berry and Mariah Carey have white mothers and black fathers. In their respective novels, Helga Crane and Clare Kendry were biracial and so light-skinned that they could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass<\/a> for white&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siueblackstudies.com\/2011\/10\/decoding-e-shockleys-mesostics-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decoding E. Shockley\u2019s \u201cmesostics from the american grammar book\u201d Pt. 2 SIUE Black Studies Blog Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 2011-10-13 Cindy Lyles Alongside [Evie] Shockley\u2019s bold choice to write a poem using only names of black women, her stanza construction also makes a daring statement in \u201cmesostics for the american grammar book.\u201d The names are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,25],"tags":[8860,8859,8861],"class_list":["post-19227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-women","tag-cindy-lyles","tag-evie-shockley","tag-siue-black-studies-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}