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Having Our Say - College Essay

Having Our Say

This book is tough to take as humorous yet its touching to look at racism in America, but Emily Mann's , manages to pull off the feat. really makes you think and try to somehow reflex on the past as if you were actually there. As a white male I amazed at how these two African American sister were able to live over a hundred years of racism and discrimination and then be able to write about their experience in humorous, yet to me very heart touching way. chronicles the lives of "Sadie" and "Bessie" Delaney, two elderly colored sisters (they prefer the term colored to African-American, black, and negro), who are finally having their say, now that everyone who ever kept them down is long ...

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(101 years old) and is much more aggressive. A self-made dentist who was the only colored female at Columbia University when she attended dentistry school there, "Bessie" is the W.E.B. Dubois of the sisters, never backing down from any type of confrontation.
As the sisters tell the stories of their ancestors and then of themselves, and how they have endured over 150 years of racism in America, they tend focus mainly on the struggles that they encountered as colored women.
"Bessie brings laughter to the book with her honest, frank, and sometimes, confrontational take on life. Much of the humor arises from the interactions between the sisters because of there opposite personalities.
One quote that comes to mind, “one thing negroes learn early is how to laugh at their situation.” I think they used laughter as a way of coping with what was really anger and hate. In today’s society that is very ...

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Added: 5/19/2007 05:36:36 PM
Category: English
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