It was nice to see more work from Fauset's pen this week. The "Spring Songs" were excellent children's fare that can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. "The Runaway Kite" and "The Teasing Hoop" are excellent fantasy poems, with "Kite"'s description of the fairies using the kite to "sail for their fairy barks that patrol the seas." "Adventures On Roller Skates" is another fantastical concept that encourages children to dream of venturing to far away lands and use their imaginations in everyday games.
My favorite aspect of The Best of the Brownies Book was definitely the Br'er Rabbit stories by Julia Price Burrell. When I was a child my mother used to read me Br'er Rabbit stories from the Walt Disney company like "Br'er Rabbit and the Briar Patch." It was really cool to see where these stories originated from. They were great moral stories teaching sharing, cleverness and staying out of trouble.
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I thought that "spring songs" was a nice release from the other pieces in the brownies book focused on race. these poems were completely for enjoyment of children with no real messege other than one of childhood innocence
I also like the exerpts from The Brownies Book. My mom read to me Disney books when I was little. My family and I go to Disney at least twice a year. The last time we went on Splash Mountain in the Magic Kingdom I saw the racism in the ride. I turned to my mom and told her this story is about the lynching in the south. I was shocked. That ride is one of the very oldest rides in all of Disney. It's amazing how you put a Disney name on it it becomes good!
I agree that "Spring Songs" were a positive, light addition to Brownies' Book. They didn't really give strong messages about racial uplift geared toward children, but they definitely perpetuated the idea that black children arejust like white children -- that they both like to play the same games and enjoy the innocence of childhood. This is certainly not a message to be downplayed.
I think the excerpt of poems from the Brownie’s Book adds a different view than the other literary selections. They aren’t heavy with racism and abstract thoughts or views of the black question. They are light, full of pleasant images, and show black and white children on the same level as well as displaying them as innocent and harmless.
I also liked the Spring songs that it was on focus of race it was just focus on children in general. Adventures on roller skates was a nice poem that told children that they can image places that they want to go and they can imgane palces they want to go. I didnt really understand the br'er rabbit and i dont think that i would read those stories to my children. Maybe if i better understood them i would.Overall it was nice to read the spring songs they focused on children at play nothing about race which was nice for once.
It was nice to see Fauset’s poems in a ‘different’ setting. Most importantly, the poems really didn’t seem to have a racial theme or message. It was nice to see work in the Brownie’s Book which reflect a universal theme like games all children play.
With many of the biblical references it seems that the poet is trying to write the black race into history. With this concept he is securing a natural right for his race and challaneges the current belief of inferiority.
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