As a student growing up in Florida, I vividly recall my International Baccalaureate English teacher inviting students to read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in their best voice impressions of a formerly enslaved Black woman. She smirked as they giggled out phrases like "de nigger woman is de mule uh de world" and peeked at me, one of the few Black students, for a response. When we read Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," my classmates offered to buy me for cowrie shells.
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