Mrs. Turner's
These racist statues, caricatures of subservient black men, originate from the late 19th century.
What are lawn jockeys? (freebie)
Angie grows obsessed with buying takeout dishes of this cultural cuisine.
What is Indian/ Indian food?
The young Native girl Estelle immediately connects with.
Elizabeth
The year interracial marriage was legalized in the United States.
What is 1967?
Vin Diesel's Cannes Film Festival debut.
What is Multi-Facial by Vin Diesel?
Mrs. Turner's lawn jockeys ask Bernie to fulfill this task.
What is to paint them white?
Angie's childhood best friend from West Virginia.
Who is Travis?
The reason Shoshona’s boss reports her.
What is for the cash reward?
The social and legal classification that any person with even one known ancestor of African descent is Black.
What is the One-Drop Rule?
A Black man's tribute to his white mother, Ruth.
What is The Color of Water by James McBride?
Bernie's father does this after seeing the newly transformed statues.
What is he laughs?
This is Angie's strange habit/practice in which she utilizes a form of searching for connections in others.
What is people watching?
Estelle and Elizabeth look for this pretend parental figure in town.
What is their fathers?
This executive order authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.
What is Recitatif by Toni Morrison?
This book, written Danzy Senna, features a similar racist caricature doll to the lawn jockey.
What is Caucasia by Danzy Senna?
This quintessential American music couple are symbolic of the all-American white identity.
Who are Johnny Cash & June Carter?
The kind of space the freight yard symbolizes.
What is a transitional/ in between space?
This law allowed U.S. servicemen to bring "foreign-born" wives and children to the United States.
What is the War Brides Act of 1945?
A collection of insightful examinations regarding the mixed race Asian American experience.
What is When Half is Whole by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu?
What the lawn jockeys seek to gain from their physical transformation.
What is social acceptance/ belonging?
Name a key theme from Footnote by Carmit Delman, name any.
Whare are the Fetishization of Mixed & Ethnic Identities, the "Real Me," or the Hierarchy of Identity Markers?
The narrator’s renaming represents this process of assimilation
What is cultural erasure?
The first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi.
Who are Alice Walker & Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal?
An essay exploration of a light-skinned Black woman who is often perceived as white.
What is Passing for White, Passing for Black by Adrian Piper?