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Authors:

Louis Sachar

Danielle L. McGuire

Hannah Crafts

Humishuma

Cirilo Villaverde

Ana María Shua

Fernondo Benovídez, Jr.

Jesse Fauset

Leslie B. Route, Jr.

David Hwang

Characters:

Stanley Yelnats

Hector Zeroni

Hannah Crafts

Cogewea

Cecilia Valdes

Angela Murray

Song

Rene Gallimard

Dates:

Titles:

Holes

At the Dark End of the Street

The Bondwoman's Narrative

Cogewea: Half-Blood

Cecilia Valdes

Cannibals and Explorers

Montezuma, My Revolver

Plum Bun

"Brazil - A Study in Black Brown and Beige"

M. Butterfly

Themes:

Legal racism and the evolution of acceptance from Kate and Sam’s time to Zero and Stanley’s time.

To bring the oppression of black women out of the shadows.

To negotiate the in-betweenness of race; think about the rodeo.

Changing the normality of racism, the deconstruction and reconstruction of concepts. Think Bronze Madonna.