Book 7, Ep. 3 | Motherhood with Erin Wunker
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The Role of Mothers in Black Literature
Aaron: I feel like the conversation that we are having that introduced households just now loops back to what we were saying earlier about the ways in which literature, especially by black writers, black women writers, nuances. We can't talk about the house elves offering care without understanding the house elves as being so frequently coded as as enslaved and as racialized. And similarly, you know, this conversation about Hagrid has to go hand in hand with conversations we've had in the past about how Hagrid being half giant is another way that the text sort of implies his racialization.
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