View that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race itself, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is a socially constructed concept (Britannica 2021)
Cullen, one of the best known poets of the Harlem Renaissance, published ʺIncidentʺ in 1925. The poem recalls a childhood ʺincidentʺ in which the speaker's life is forever altered when another child uses a racist slur against him in public (2021).