Vocabulary
Better job opportunities and less restrictive racial laws that attracted migrants to Northern cities.
What is Pull Factors
The type of narration Walker employs, giving readers Mama's authentic perspective throughout the story.
What is First Person Subjective
Northern cities offered this political advantage that was denied to Black people in the South.
What is the right to vote
This person is everyone's favorite ELA teacher? Top 5 all time.
Who is Mr.Johnson
When is Mr. Johnson's Birthday?
March 4th
This system of social stratification that Wilkerson explores placed people in rigid hierarchical groups based on race.
What is the caste sytsem
These handmade items become the central symbol of heritage and family tradition in the story.
What are quilts
This Southern state system that Wilkerson describes as maintaining racial hierarchy through legal segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws
In "Everyday Use," this character has physical scars that symbolize her connection to family hardship and resilience.
Who is Maggie?
Correct this sentence "The quilts was beautiful."
What is The Quilts WERE beautiful
The mass movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West between 1915-1970.
What is the Great Migration
What State did "Everyday Use" take place in
What is Georgia
This violent practice against Black Americans was a major push factor driving people to leave the South.
What is lynching
Dee's boyfriend in "Everyday Use" who supports her newfound cultural awareness.
Who is Hakim
What other book did Alice Walker write?
What is The Color Purple
Economic hardships and racial violence that drove people to leave the South during the Great Migration.
What is Push factors
Dee changes her name to this to embrace her African heritage.
What is Wangero
According to Wilkerson's catalog, Jim Crow laws prohibited Black people from doing this simple game activity with white people
What is playing checkers/gambling
This person's personality can be described as practical, hardworking, and this quality that shows strength through adversity.
Who is Mama
What is the highest score you can get on the ACT?
What is a 36
The systematic prevention of African Americans from exercising their right to vote through various legal and illegal means.
What is disenfranchisement
The type of language or dialect used by characters that reflects their cultural background and social identity.
What is vernacular
This exploitative farming system trapped many Black Southerners in perpetual debt and was a major push factor
What is sharecropping
This character in "Everyday Use" represents the struggle between education and staying connected to one's roots.
Dee/Wangero
The use of regional dialect in "Everyday Use" serves this literary purpose in character development.
What is establishing authenticity and cultural identity...relating to the reader