49 pages • 1 hour read
The Colored Museum
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987
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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?
3.
The characters in “The Photo Session” say they live free from contradiction. What do you think they mean?
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