An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry s
The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks s
Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata s
The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee s
Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ( Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres,
AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States and how these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines. The critics conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American groups are feminized (in the sense of being marked under the sign of the feminine).
Parents Of The Rich And Famous Who Tried To Extort Their Children Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
By Daniel Johnson/Jan. 6, 2021 4:40 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 8:18 pm EDT
There are many parents who look at their children s success as the product of years of hard work. They re filled with joy, knowing that their kids have achieved a level of success and financial stability they themselves couldn t give them. Then there are some parents who look at their children s success and start singing the Berry Gordy-penned lyrics, The best things in life are free/ But you can give them to the birds and bees/ I need money.