![]() ![]() And the learning agenda is to teach these children to forget their history and the injustices done to them and to embrace the ways of white folk. In school, hooks sees that integration most resembles corralling, with black children herded, prodded, and pushed like cattle. In this world, too, black is a woman's color - worn when earned - daughters and daddy are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about. ![]() She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. ![]() She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the impotence of children, especially black female children. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Back shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. ![]()
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