Volume 4, Issue 1 [Click on the content you want to access, please.] Front Matter Research Articles The Identification of the Black Middle Class in Condoleezza Rice’s Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Kai Kang  The Ambiguity of Iago’s Fabricated Dream of Cassio in Othello by Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu  The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Sexuality, Irresponsibility, and Political Economics in Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef’s Peter Panties by Phillip Zapkin  Laboring Toward Liberation: Literature as a Tool of Resistance by Audrey T. Heffers Full-text Issue