- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
After remembering the boy-aged version of the protest leader calling him “white man,” Jesse’s anger toward the protest leader increases. In this moment, like the one at the very end of the story, Jesse loses control and, howling like an animal, reveals the sexual undertones of his racism. By screaming at the protest leader that he is lucky white men “pump some white blood” into Black women, Jesse reveals his need to prove his sexual prowess to Black men. His desire to have sex with Black women is, at the root, a desire to compete with (and beat) Black men.
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