#‘sometimes modern critical thinkers project modern ideas about race onto old novels’ GIRL IT’S IN THE TEXT !! TAKE IT UP WITH THE WOMAN
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fighting for my life for dark-skinned heathcliff in this wuthering heights class
#‘sometimes modern critical thinkers project modern ideas about race onto old novels’ GIRL IT’S IN THE TEXT !! TAKE IT UP WITH THE WOMAN#HERSELF EMILY BRONTE !!!!#like u can debate his ethnicity Sure but god he is non-white how many times does bronte have to write ‘dark-skinned’ in aspect for that to#be clear#‘the characters call him ‘dark’ in reference to his brooding angry byronic personality’ PORQUE NO LOS DOS !!!!!!!! THEY GO HAND IN HAND AND#INFORM EACH OTHER !!!!#‘it’s britain in the late 18th century it’s not as diverse as modern day Britain’ GIRL THE SLAVE TRADE ?#LONDON THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF THE (WESTERN) WORLD ?#LIVERPOOL A HUB FOR THE SLAVE TRADE ?#jay rants#does heathcliff wishing he had ‘light hair and fair skin’ mean nothing to u
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