Black Matters

Advent Week One

Toni Morrison is a philosopher.

The omission of Blackness speaks just as loudly as a concentration on whiteness. So says Toni Morrison in her book, “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.”

I read this book a while ago and I don’t remember what inspired me to purchase it. What I do know is, that after reading it, I see the absence of …