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but he still left behind him three books, one of which is The Blacker the Berry. Unlike Wright, Thurman chose several different settings in following the protagonist from home, to school, and then the city. As some African-American authors choose to write about the racial prejudices in the nation Thurman, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance, choose to use Intraracial color prejudice as the theme to write The Blacker the Berry (1929). The protagonist, Emma Lou Morgan, is a very dark girl "born into a semi-white world, totally surrounded by an all-white one, and those few dark elements that had forced their way in either way had either been shooed away or else greeted with derisive laughter." From this community, Boise, Idaho, Emma Lou goes to Los Angeles and then to Harlem, but she can escape neither the handicaps imposed by the notion that light is right nor her own resulting self-hatred. Throughout the book Thurman makes several references as to how the prejudice thoughts can ...

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At the very beginning of the story the reader can conclude right away that Bigger's family is very poor and that he is the eldest man in the family. When Bigger goes to the Dalton's on the first day of his new job he experiences the feeling of being looked down upon, by the Dalton family who are upper class whites that Wright has representing the Status Quo.
From the very beginning of The Blacker the Berry Emma Lou Morgan is plagued by negative thoughts about herself regarding the darkness of her skin. Since she was a young girl it was mainstream that the little the skin the better because they were considered higher up than ordinary blacks. If you could see the veins in your ...

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