The Africanlike Persona To position the men's experiences of this book, it is important to recognize that their individual and collective lives are socially linked to the historical legacy of slavery.

And since not all fourth-graders have an antigriddle (a cooktop that freezes rather than heats), Achatz notes that a cookie sheet atop dry ice will suffice.

Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees. She lurked there till she heard him say, Gedup, in a voice thick with rage, and horse and cart click-clacked off along the road, and left it free for her to follow.

My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.