![]() Hearing about black men being unable to find work in our nonfiction readings felt so cold and stark I was left unable to understand why that would cause a man to leave his family. The book is exquisite in the way it demonstrates how a racist society tears families apart. I doubt I would have understood the events in it or valued its perspective as much without the nonfiction reading we did prior. Although we rather arbitrarily assigned the order of the books, I’m glad this one came toward the end. ![]() It’s hard to believe that Amy and I only have three books left after this in our project. But it seems as though her hard work does nothing against the street and the walls that the white people build around the colored people brick by brick. Get him away from her dad’s gin-drinking girlfriend and all the roomers packed in the house. ![]() In 1944 Lutie Johnson believes that all it takes is hard work to succeed, so when she finds an apartment in Harlem that she can move into with her son, Bub, she sees it as a step up. ![]()
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