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- natalia brown
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- "Being Black"
- Summary: Allison Jones excels academically, but struggles with how her peers in her Brooklyn neighborhood pressure her for ?talking white.?
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Review of Being Black
natalia brown
Posted on February 10, 2007 at 09:55 AM
Being from a predominantly white neighborhood myself, I have often struggled with what being black meant. Like the author of the story expresses, its often hard for those who don't act "black" to fit in with other black students or trying to fulfill familiar expectations to be a model black person and the authority on certain issues. I think that the author beautifully expressed this and her desire to just be herself and not have to be attached to her race.