University of Richmond Race & Racism Project

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http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/Collegian77.15.1-19910131.png
The Fall 1991 issue of the Messenger prompted University officials to withdraw the magazine from the admissions office and no longer send it to alumni. A memo from Gerald Quigg, vice president of University relations, claimed that crude language used…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/RichmondCollegianXLII.2.2-19550923.png
This article defines the "literary quality" mentioned in student handbooks given to freshman (called "Rats" by the author). Gibson claims that literary realism is sometimes "vulgar" and "obscene" just to be shocking, which makes it "pornographic…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/Messenger1990.2.18-1990.pdf
The two characters in this story, an unnamed woman and unnamed man, argue over the man's desire to move to Africa. The man claims that everyone who visits the continent "wish[es] they had come before the white man, or before colonization" and…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/Messenger1990.1.9-1990.pdf
In this short story, an American soldier named Taylor is shot and killed after enduring torture in an unspecified Asian POW camp. Taylor is reincarnated multiple times before the story of his shooting is told, in which a military commander named…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/Messenger1990.1.22-1990.pdf
In this short story, a law student named Winston Kingstone Manners the Fourth does cocaine and finds a book that contains his life story. Moments in his past are described as, "The beaten black boy, the date-raped freshman, and the threatened…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/MessengerLXVIII.5.10-1941.pdf
This short story is a retelling of the myth of Perseus and Medusa, written in black American dialect by a white student. The young women in the tale are oversexualized and the narrator exhibits colorism by referring to Polydectes's "high yaller"…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/MessengerLXVIII.3.9-1941.pdf
This short story from the February 1941 Messenger details the passing of a black woman named Bess. Bess's dress is described as being scant and attention-grabbing, and an unnamed man urges her to marry someone who is "her own kind" and criticizes her…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/Messenger1960.6-1960.pdf
This short story follows an unnamed American narrator and his peers traveling to Africa for writing inspiration. It points out and pokes fun at the tendency of European and American authors to use contrasting epithets to describe the continent, such…

Messenger2018.40-2018.pdf
This short story takes place in Guatemala and explains the folktale of esperanza, or hope. A boy named Miguelito first discovers an esperanza bug, then accidentally kills it while fighting his older brother. However, nobody seems to care as much as…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/Messenger1994.2.10-1994.pdf
In this short story, a woman named Rebecca reflects on her new life in Africa while hitchhiking with a man named Jeff, who is described as "weather-tanned." His race is not identified. After he stops on the side of the road, he begins to make…
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