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Yet the women who lived in Brewster Place still dream, so Brewster Place isn’t dead yet. After the block party, Brewster Place is condemned. This outcome suggests that the block party failed—the rain, which may have symbolized structural racism, prevented the tenants’ association from raising enough money to sue the landlord for better conditions.
4. Kiswana Browne. The Women of Brewster Place: 5. Lucielia Louise Turner Summary & Analysis. 6. Cora Lee. One dawn, Ben is drinking outside when Eugene walks up, tells him the funeral is today, and asks whether he’ll go. Ben says no: a baby’s funeral is too sad.
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The Block Party & Dusk Summary. Kiswana has planned a block party for Brewster Place to raise funds to pay for a lawyer so the tenants can fight their absent landlord. It has been raining all week ...
Books. The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories. Gloria Naylor. Penguin, Jun 30, 1983 - Fiction - 208 pages. The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones“ [A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of ...
In The Women of Brewster Place, both interpersonal and structural racism threaten Black people’s lives, but especially structural racism in the form of poverty. While the characters do suffer occasionally from direct white violence—for example, Etta Mae Johnson has to flee her hometown in Tennessee when the relatives of the “horny white bastard” she sexually rejected form a small mob ...
Lucielia Louise Turner is the mother of a young girl, Serena. As this chapter opens, people are gathering for Serena's funeral. At first there is no explanation given for the girl's death. There ...
