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49 pages 1 hour read

The Colored Museum

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

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Essay Topics

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Miss Pat presents both the rules of the oppressor and an optimistic outlook on the future. How does her behavior reconcile these conflicting concepts?

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Miss Pat has described the future rewards of pain. How does Aunt Ethel’s recipe celebrate the pain of the past in her creation of Black identity?

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The characters in “The Photo Session” say they live free from contradiction. What do you think they mean?

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