Negro Mother, by Langston Hughes

Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama

(

1941 )

Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash

Read by Kiyona Brewster.

Kiyona Brewster joined the Centre College faculty as assistant professor of sociology in 2017 after working as a lecturer at Triton College, Depaul University, and Northwestern University in Illinois. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of race and ethnicity, gender, qualitative methods, family studies, and religion.