Gramsci
This theory tries to explain how dominant discourses perpetuate their power and privileges over marginalized and minoritized populations
What is Gramsci's Cultural Hegemony theory.
This term describes what Adichie believes to influence who gets the right to tell stories about other people, and what kind of stories they tell
What is Power or What is Power and Privilege
This term describes the ending of a story
This character is the main protagonist, a young African American man aged 35 years old who has a wife, a young child, lives with his mother and sister, and works as a chaffeur to a wealthy White man
Who is Walter Younger
This character, who is the protagonist of the story, is a Latina high school student whose parents remove her from her neighborhood, working class Latino school to an upper middle class, predominantly White suburban school.
Who is Lilian Cruz
This concept states that the dominant discourse is ordained by God to treat non-dominant groups inhumanely
What is Manifest Destiny
This term describes what Adichie believes to be potentially harmful when telling stories about others
What is danger of a single story, or What is that a single story is told about others
This word describes the beginning of a story, where the characters, story, and setting are introduced
What is "exposition."
This character is the main antagonist in the story--a slippery con-man who is highly skilled and persuading desperate people to give him their money, then runs away with it
This character becomes an unexpected White friend and ally to Lilian at Westburg High School, and is also her host sister.
Who is Holly
This test demonstrates that dominant discourses create a world in which those who are not privileged by it come to believe themselves to be inferior from an early age
What is the Black Doll/White Doll Test
This definition is how Adichie describes a stereotype
This term describes the highest point in the story, where everything the protagonists had been hoping or trying to avoid happens
What is "the climax"
This character represents a more affluent group of African Americans, so as to avoid a single story, who dates Beneatha and is a college student
Who is George Murchison
This character becomes Lilian's boyfriend but is unfortunately hanging out with a terrible, racist friend named Steve.
Dustin.
This concept describes the manner in which the dominant discourse may influence people to unintentionally treat others with prejudice without being aware of it
What is unconscious bias
This phrase, which Adiche quotes from a Palestinian writer, is one that she believes is dangerous when used to describe a people's experience
What is "and secondly"
This word describes what occurs after the high point of the story, when loose ends must be tied, and any unfinished business addressed
What is "falling action"
This character, the only White character in the story, represents segregationists who are trying to keep the Younger family out of a predominantly White neighborhood
Who is Mr. Mark Lindner
Racial biases against this student, a star basketball player, lead to a hate crime being committed against him.
Who is Rayshawn
This term describes how the White dominant discourse allows those who are privileged by it to receive special treatment just because of who they are
What is unearned privilege
This phrase is one Adichie uses in her TED Talk to describe the limitations of only having one version of other people's story told, which leads to stereotyping because it does not present those people as being diverse
This word describes the twists and turns that happen as the characters are trying to deal with the problem in the story
What is "complications"
This character, who is present in the play but not the film adaptation, represents African American people who accept the dominant discourse's characterization of African American people as inferior and less deserving than White citizens
Who is Mrs. Johnson.
This teacher of color tries to help the students in the METCO program to do well at the school, while a student of color tries to be a role model, teaching her how to acculturate to the school
Who are Mr. Rivera and Genesis