Here are some links to help you explore the texts and themes within this section.

“By Any Other Name” Santha Rau – essay text pdf

• Website: pronunciations of names by country
  • Madhavikutty example
• Twitter Collection (Waldner assembled): Anglocized Names – personal. current examples

• Article: How Much Racism do you Face Everyday? 
  Discussion on unintended bias encounters, known as “microaggressions”

Path B: Options for more practice or choice of poem(s)
There are other poems that reveal an author’s search for their self-identity and their place in their society.

Identity Poems in Shared Google Doc – join here to share your comments as you read three of the poems.

• “An Introduction” poem – Kamala Das
  • Waldner recorded “An Introduction” audio of poem

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• “I am Alien in Africa and Everywhere” poem – Dennis Brutus
  • Brutus was a prisoner alongside Nelson Mandela in South Africa. He lived in the United States for a time, exiled from his home country. In this video, you could hear the voice of the writer for this poem. 
  • Waldner recorded “I am Alien in Africa and Everywhere” audio of poem
    
• “Home” poem Fred D’Aguiar – read along with the poem in the article below
  • Article: When Home is an Unwelcoming Place -Irony in D’Aguiar’s poem
• Podcast: “Black Names in White Classrooms: Teacher Behaviours and Student Perceptions”
  • This page includes written transcript of the podcast, so you can jump down in the page to some of the research findings.