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The Emperor Jones

10-11 on 31 Aug Cockney (dialect) a marker of being part of the lowest stratum of society sense of persecution - guilty coz black "oversoul" end result of slavery is dehumanization hegemony only way of overcoming - keeping hope alive, fighting back, not accepting other end of spectrum (of dealing with things) is fatalism feeling of being a fugitive (phenomenon) (to be black in America) even to this day  runaway - <Black like me> equal (nuomena) but segregated Blacks in sports and entertainment rather than policy making- if you must be equal to us then do things that entertain us Zora Lee Hurston - jazz not a part of the white man Chapter is a dry comment on America- it is all a projection and thereby construction of power. notion of constantly being a fugitive - victim of law and his own psyche- collective unconsciousness Jones himself running from the law for murder. crown berry - song figure of hobo - gonzo journalism okay to be a rolling stone, gat...