Intro The first Native American poet laureate Joy Harjo serves as a pillar to the preservation of indigenous history through her naturalistic and spiritualistic writing style. As a member of the Muscogee Nation Harjo is able to hone her craft to the recognition […]
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Reimagining the Nation: Immigration, Gender, and Refuge in Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”
https://www.wevideo.com/view/3925063595 Intro Since the birth of democracy in the United States, immigrants have made significant contributions to the ever-evolving American identity. At the age of 34 in 1883, American poet Emma Lazarus was aware of this fact yet existed in an era of xenophobic nationalism […]