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Part I (Pages 1 - 60)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Headline, Great Britain, 2018.

• In a short Foreward, Ayobami Adebayo wrote in May 2018 that Butler was party inspired to write Kindred through watching her own Black mother's poor treatment by white employers when she was a house cleaner in the 1950s in California.

• Adebayo writes that the past is not as distant as we might think.

• She writes that the amputation of the character Dana's arm symbolizes how our present lives are shaped by our past history in ways we can not ignore.

• Adebayo urges readers to arm themselves with all we might need to protect our freedoms as our politics and cultures shift.

• This book was written entirely from the first-person perspective and in the past tense.

• Dana, a 26-year-old Black woman who lives in California, is...

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