Tiffany B. Brown

a mish-mosh of stuff

Archive for August, 2009

The Proust Questionnaire
Via JT → the Martini. The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Here is the basic Proust Questionnaire. 1. What is your idea of perfect [...] [Posted: 15 Aug 2009]
On being black and American abroad
I know that when Americans travel abroad that we lose the hyphen and become the sum total of the expectations that “foreigners” have of what Americans are like. Then depending on the country (and time of day) the question of the gradations of one’s Americanhood come into play…race, region, which generation, command of other languages, [...] [Posted: 2 Aug 2009]