Graduate Program
English
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Semester of Degree Completion
2007
Thesis Director
Letitia Moffitt
Thesis Committee Member
Daiva Markelis
Thesis Committee Member
Tim Engles
Abstract
Punk'd Lives: Or the Effects of White Folks, Black Folks, and Breeders on Punks is a collection of short stories in the vein of Langston Hughes' The Ways of White Folks; each story looks at contemporary American, mainly middle class, society and exposes some particular, and not always pleasant, truth about those represented within its few pages. As a collective whole and at its core, Punk'd Lives examines what it means to be a young homosexual African-American male living inside of the larger (mainstream) American culture that is often White and always heterosexual.
Recommended Citation
Tracy, Maurice L., "Punk'd lives: Or, The effects of white folks, black folks, and breeders on punks" (2007). Masters Theses. 265.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/265
