Everything you need to understand or teach The Toni Morrison Dreams by Elizabeth Alexander.
"The Toni Morrison Dreams," by Elizabeth Alexander, was first published in issue 75 of Hanging Loose; next it appeared as part of Alexander's third collection, Antebellum Dream Book, published by Graywolf Press in 2001. "Antebellum" refers to the period before the American Civil War (1861—1865), and its use here suggests that this collection of dream poems though set in the second half of the twentieth century are of a time before race relations have evolved...