... in "Looking for Zora" by Alice Walker, both of the communities in the stories had many similarities. In Toni Morrison's novel, the main character is Sethe, an ex-slave who lives with her daughter, Denver and boyfriend Paul D. in a small town. Sethe worked as a slave for many years, and escaped ... ...

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... fact that "white" Americans saw themselves as being superior. From "A Different Mirror", just because the guy in the taxi was not white, he was assumed as being from another country. Toni Morrison described "race as having the function of a "metaphor" necessary to the "construction of American-ness": in the creation of our national identity, "America" has been defined as "white" (Takaki, pg ... ...

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