1. The Lesson
Money Matters: A Critical Analysis of Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara is a short story set in the inner part of New York City that gives the reader an opportunity to briefly see into the lives of children living devoid ... education. It takes place in the early seventies, following the civil rights movement and during a time when the imbalance of wealth in terms of race was immense. This reflects that, "Toni Cade Bambara is one of the best representatives of the group of Afro-American writers who, during the 1960s, became directly involved in the cultural a...
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