Brewster Place in these stories thus stands at a point when change is taking place but has not yet been as thorough as it would be later. The African-Americans now living in Brewster Place have largely migrated from the South. Indeed, Mattie Michae Continue Reading...
Kiswana is proud of being black and pillories her mother as "a white man's nigger who's ashamed of being black" (ibid., p. 85). Kiswana therefore helps Cora Lee to heal from her "shadow men" who have made a mother without caring about their offsprin Continue Reading...
Women of Brewster Place The realistic artist's or novelist's job is to reflect the world around them and if the world around them is one in which gratuitousness, violence, bad language, and graphic sexuality are rampant, then the artist/novelist ha Continue Reading...
