ENGL 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chester Himes, Desegregation, Economic System
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In history of america, assimilation has stripped people of property, identity, created genocide and violence: struggle b/w integration and desegregation, everyone told african americans to integrate slowly , lynching used to maintain jim crow laws/racial policies. Integration- wanted integration w/out transforming a society: 1954 brown vs. school board decision, supreme court decision undoes separate, but equal that was decided in plessy vs. ferguson. Integrating means giving up some aspect of himself/identity for. If he hollers (up to chapter 14: alice blurs lines b/w white and black, passing- african americans who tried socially to pass as white, strong beliefs about relationship with bob. In work place really strong, confident, not as confident outside of that(as seen in hotel-dinner scene: frustration/racial exhaustion, complex destabilized identity both racially and sexually, ch. 8: drunk, sickened by relationship b/w alice and her friend, questioning her sexuality, ch.
