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"How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back" by Lisa Whittington, contributed by Kira Traylor (2021)
12021-04-24T18:41:51-04:00Emily Mitchellff4ea107307f7ae7326072957b361b722e43ffd1732plain2021-04-24T18:44:30-04:00Emily Mitchellff4ea107307f7ae7326072957b361b722e43ffd1Lisa Whittington's "How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back" depicts the grotesque, provocative reality of the death of Emmett Till: a previously rosy, young, and alive boy was returned to his mother deformed, bruised, and dead. Loss does not occur within a vacuum and instead is informed by the social, political, economic, and religious climate in which it occurs. In order to truly understand loss and come to terms with it, we must acknowledge these circumstances.
