In her essay, Nussbaum questions the righteousness of having an extreme sense of national identity by saying, "As students here grow up, is it sufficient for them to learn that they are above all citizens of the United States but that they ought to respect the basic human rights of citizens of India, Bolivia, Nigeria, and Norway? ... They must be educated so they can learn to identify themselves through their own judgment, and in effect seek to help out in correcting the faults of democracy that they suffered while being slaves. ...

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A few authors who discuss the various ideas of sexuality in their writings are Gwendolyn Bennett, "To a Dark Girl, " Claude McKay, "America, " Langston Hughes, "Red Silk Stockings," and Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. " In this essay, I will be discussing the fact that although the topic of sexuality has a restrained history for African Americans, as they were suppressed from freedom of their sexuality among other things, these authors display their suggestion of what sex means. ... Bennett writes the poem surrounding the woman's blackness by starting off with, "I ...

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