The Black Man's Burden Questions and Answers
The Black Man's Burden
After reading "The Black Man's Burden," do you agree that colonialism "kills the soul of a people?"
Yes, colonialism "kills the soul of a people" by destroying their cultures, traditions, languages, and autonomy, as argued in "The Black Man's Burden" by Edward Morel. Colonialism denies colonized...
The Black Man's Burden
Is H. T. Johnson's "The Black Man's Burden" a parody of Kipling's "The White Man's Burden"? What are the direct links?
The poem “The Black Man’s Burden” by H. T. Johnson is a parody of the poem “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. The first line in both poems is very similar, and Johnson refers to this...