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The History of My Silence, and: The History of My Silence
- Colorado Review
- Center for Literary Publishing
- Volume 45, Number 3, Fall/Winter 2018
- pp. 175-176
- 10.1353/col.2018.0112
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
The speaker remembers an incident in a grocery store in which her father made racist gestures toward a black man.
The speaker recounts a story her mother told her about racial segregation on a bus in the South in the early 1960s.