Jerz: Am Lit II (EL 267): Toomer, ''Blood-Burning Moon''
Lousia was a very sexy girl. "Her breasts, firm and up-pointed like ripe acorns." That's why Bob Stone loved her even she was black. He didn't know why he loved a black girl. I guess he didn't have any black friends and go out with black people before. In that time, white people discriminated against black people in American society. I believe Bob Stone had discrimination against black people, too. But he fall in love with Lousia. She was really a attractive girl.
Posted by MinaSato at March 29, 2005 1:17 AM | TrackBackHe loved her BECAUSE she was black. He say that in the text and his conflict is certainly conveyed in the part where "his mind became consciously a white man's". White men still desire black women and experience internal conflict because society tells them that this is generally not acceptable. And news for ya... Black people are stilled institutionally discriminated against by white controlled systems (education, government, entertainment,law, the list goes on) For example... the nooses hung in NYC at Columbia, and in Philadephia, on that tree in Gena, Genarlow Wilson, Michael Bell and the Jena 6, Megan Wilson. All these displays of overt racism are happening today in our current times. Open your eyes.
Read literature from an informed perspective and your interpretations will be more logical.