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This 3 page paper discusses bell hooks’ memoir Bone Black, and argues that the poverty, racism , class distinction and religious betrayal she suffered as a child molded her into the writer and poet she became. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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more personal and less objective at the same time. The technique somehow brings the little girl in the book very close to the reader. This paper discusses how young bell
was shaped by both racism and social class, and how she resisted them at times, and at other times, allowed herself to go along with oppression. Discussion Both poverty and
racism mold the child into the woman she will become, but shes not necessarily aware of them. Like most children, she doesnt know shes poor: "We live in the country.
We children do not understand that that means we are among the poor" (hooks, 1996, p. 4). But the children do understand that theyre black, and even as a very
small girl hooks knows that something is wrong: "... we go to the country school - the little white wood-frame building where all the country kids come. They come from
miles and miles away. They come so far because they are black" (hooks, 1996, p. 4). As these children ride the buses, they pass schools where white kids can go
without being bused, "without getting up in the wee hours of the morning, sometimes leaving home in the dark" (hooks, 1996, p. 5). What hooks has described with all the
innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disliked practice of busing kids to schools far from their homes in an attempt to redress
the ills of segregation. In hookss case, she is clearly going to an all-black school, so that rather than having the effect of integration, she and her black classmates are
segregated from the white children in a school of their own that it takes many of them hours to reach. Thus, both poverty and race are familiar concepts to hooks
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