"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties . . . must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." Martin Luther King, Jr.
A few recent blog posts and world literature on race, culture, and class:
Ricardo Aleixo performing in 2017. By Elisangela Leite. License: CC BY 2.0.
I am whatever you think a black man is. You almost never think about black men.
Performance poet Ricardo Aleixo's "My Man," which first appeared several years ago in an issue of Words Without Borders dedicated to Afro-Brazilian writing, is now being republished as part of this month's focus on "International Black Voices on Race and Racism."
Looking for great new writing from around the globe, but not sure where to start? Welcome to Words Without Borders Campus, where we publish well-translated global stories, poems, graphic lit, and essays, alongside multimedia cultural resources that work well remotely or in person.
Hands holding string-lights. Photo by Diego PH on Unsplash.
Last January, this blog published teaching suggestions for a poem about solitude that has become only more relevant over the past year of the pandemic.
Who couldn't use a little magic this fall? Towards that end, we've pulled together six global stories that combine realism and fantasy. Each story features a young person facing real-world problems, and finding support in the form of a slightly magical intervention. Travel with us to the Middle East, East Asia—and an unnamed village somewhere in the Spanish-speaking world, sometime in the future.
