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Minstrelsy

This is another name for performances conducted in blackface.

Tower of Babel

This is a Biblical story about people losing their common language.

Antigone

This is an Ancient Greek play about standing up for what is right regardless of the personal cost.

The Bird

This is what the children in the folktale about the blind wise woman may or may not be holding and, to Morrison, represents language.

Harlem

This place was the subject of a failed museum exhibit and is the historic center of Black culture in New York.

Borders

These are the divisions between things such as countries or categories.

The Other

This represents people onto which we project everything that we do not want to be a part of the self.

Blackbody

This refers to the objectified bodies of African Americans.

Slavebody

This refers to the objectified bodies of slaves.

The Bluest Eye

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