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A 3 page analysis of Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which is a complex work that not only details the events of Angelou's girlhood, but also illustrates the sociological structures that were in place in the South at that time to keep African-Americans 'in their place,' which is to say subservient to white interests. No additional sources cited.
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place," which is to say subservient to white interests. In a manner that illustrates John Stuart Mills concept of sociological imagination, Angelou structures this work in such a way
that the episodes in the book relative to identity and race form a series of lessons about resisting racist oppression. In showing the relationship between the structure of society to
racial oppression, Angelou demonstrates how these lessons, as a child, moved her progressively from an emotional state of impotent rage and indignation to forms of subtle resistance and finally to
outright and active protest. In this work, Angelou demonstrates the web of social structure that was in place before the Civil Rights Movement, in which the perception of blacks
and whites is literally poles apart. For example, when the white man who used to be the sheriff comes to warn the black population that there will be a Ku
Klux Klan raid, the reader knows that the man is sincerely trying to help and "do the right thing." However, young Maya feels no kindness toward him for this
gesture. She writes: If on Judgment Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriffs act of kindness, I would k unable
to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klans coming ride would scurry under their houses
to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear (Angelou 14). When "powhitetrash" girls taunt her grandmother, Maya reacts with the same feelings of helplessness, anger,
and humiliation. Nevertheless, this episode, in particular, forms an important part in Mayas education on how to live as a black in the white-run South. When the girls mimic
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