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misconception anent Herodotus, a close elucidation of the quintessential nature of Redfield 's and Munsons’s works pertaining to the matter of who in were and who were not Greek, alongside anomalies who percolated this permeable division. Redfield establishes the identity of the Greeks and that of non-Greeks, specifically, by their culture, denoted by three ethnological terms: “diaita, ethea, and nomoi” (98, Redfield). In their layering

“I cannot help laughing at the absurdity of all the map-makers...who show Ocean running like a river round a perfectly circular earth, with Asia and Europe of the same size…the “proper notion of the size and shape of these two continents. Persian territory extends southward to the Red Sea, as it is called; north of them are the Medes, then the Saspires, then the Cholchians, who go as far as the northern sea, where the mouth of the Phasis is. These four nations fill the area between the Black sea

the novel Passing, Nella Larsen explores the consequences and disadvantages of two African Americans living in a segregated society. The reconnection between Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry illustrates two different paths in regards to how they portray themselves in their own community. Larsen displays Clare Kendry as a light – skinned women who tolerates her husband’s racial comments in order to live in a higher society. Clare’s decision to secretly hide her racial background because of the desire

with West Indian relatives. Passing protagonists, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, struggle with racial and sexual identities; Clare Kendry, breaks the mulatto stereotype by not being able to identify herself with a particular race because of her tragic death, while Irene Redfield obsession with Clare and her values for middle class standing leads to psychological suicide. Larsen utilizes the main protagonist; Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, to discuss race “passing”, sexual “passing”, and identification

more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name Passing, tells the tale of a friendship between two African American women Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, who are both fair enough to “pass” as white. Irene, with a visibly African American husband and child, does so rarely, while Clare makes her life as a white woman in order to released from the affliction of being Black. Nella

The Fox family, John, Margaret and two of their daughters Kate and Margaret[ta], moved to the small New York State hamlet of Hydesville on December 11, 1847. The house reportedly had seen it’s fair share of tenants even though it had a reputation for being “haunted” and bore the nickname of “spook house”. The previous tenant, a Mr. Michael Weakman, had moved from the home because of inexplicable disturbances, a common complaint among many of the previous tenants. At first, the family dismissed any

two childhood friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry. After the result of a chance encounter in their hometown Chicago, Clare and Irene reconnect after twelve years of estrangement. Clare is passing as a white woman and has been for some time as she is married to a white man, John Bellew, who does not know Clare is black. This puzzles Irene, who lives as a free black woman who is true to herself and her background. Irene is married to successful doctor Brian Redfield and the couple have two sons

African American Literature Midterm Exam 1. Define who Frederick Douglass was and provide a summary of his book, narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass: an American slave 1845. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Frederick Douglass was the most important black American leader of the nineteenth century. He was born in February of the 1818 and died February 20, 1895. Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples

novel "Passing," the theme of racial passing takes center stage, unfolding through the lives of Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry. Both characters navigate the complex passing terrain—assuming white identities despite their mixed-race backgrounds. However, their divergent approaches shed light on the intricate nature of racial identity and the profound societal implications of passing. Irene Redfield, our main character, treads carefully in her journey of identity, opting to pass occasionally for the

ancestry. This story is told from Irene Redfield’s first point of view. Irene Redfield was a long friend of Clare who also was a light skinned mulatto. In contrast of Clare, Irene lived as a proud African American woman who married to a successful black man named Brian and lived on Harlem. The story in Passing is devided into three parts: Encounter, Re-encounter, and Finale. The first part: Encounter, tells about Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry’s encounter in Drayton, Chicago. They grew up together, but