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SRS Final Exam Questions And Answers 100% Verified. Who wrote "Killers of the Dream"? - answerLillian Smith Look Out For: Discussion of being raised in the South / Southern ideology from white perspective The term "the white South" Southern "values" condemn Blackness and sex Story of Janie (adopted white-passing child who Smith's family returns when they discover she is Black) Author condemns racism of the South First person / collective first person Themes: Reflection on childhood and the place where Smith grew up Production and reproduction of ideology // imposition of ideology on children Contradiction between Christian principles and principles of segregation - answerKillers of the Dream by Lillian Smith "It is a strange thing, this umbilical cord uncut. In times of ease, we do not feel its pull, but when we are threatened with change, suddenly it draws the whole white South together in a collective fear and fury that wipe our minds clear of reason and we are blocked from sensible contact with the world we live in" (26). - answerKillers of the Dream by Lillian Smith -This is the first time we see the phrase "the white South" -This phrase labels white supremaciest ideology and those embedded in/participating in racist society "We who were born in the South called this mesh of feeling and memory 'loyalty.' We thought of it some- times as 'love.' We identified with the South's trouble as if we, individually, were responsible for all of it. We defended the sins and the sorrows of three hundred years as if each sin had been committed by us alone and each sorrow had cut across our heart. We were as hurt at criticism of our region as if our own name had been called aloud by the critic. We knew guilt without understanding it, and there is no tie that binds men closer to the past and each other than that" (26). - answerKillers of the Dream by Lillian Smith Explores the way that the identity of the white South is intertwined with the past, making the white South resistant to change/progress "And then I found it possible to say, 'Why is she leaving? She likes us, she hardly knows them. She told me she had been with them only a month.' 'Because,' Mother said gently, 'Janie is a little colored girl.' 'But she's white!' 'We were mistaken. She is colored.'" (36). - answerKillers of the Dream by Lillian Smith -Shows how the markers used to inscribe race are arbitrary -If Janie is albino, a minor genetic difference makes her white -Shows how racism is an unnatural imposition on children like Smith, but is impossible to reverse once it becomes naturalized in people like her mother Interpolation - answerRelevant Source: Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith Definition: -The insertion of something of a different nature into something else -Ideology surrounds you and impacts you, whether you want it to and realize it or not -Whether you accept authority or not, you will respond to it (Ex: the police) Important because: The ideologies of white supremacy and the white South surround white Southerners, allowing these ideologies to be reproduced and transferred across time Who wrote "Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter From the South"? - answerJames Baldwin Look out for: First person African American view of the South Urgency of desegregation Violence and Brown v. Board are worth it — education is super important Racism as emasculating Compare African Americans who moved North during Great Migration to immigrants Atlanta Discussion of old Black man Themes: Paternalism Pace of desegregation Importance of education - answer"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter From the South" by James Baldwin "Negroes in the North are right when they refer to the South as the Old Country. A Negro born in the North who finds himself in the South is in a position similar to that of the son of the Italian emigrant who finds himself in Italy, near the village where his father first saw the light of day. Both are in countries they have never seen, but which they cannot fail to recognize. The landscape has always been familiar; the speech is archaic, but it rings a bell; and so do the ways of the people, though their ways are not his ways. Everywhere he turns, the revenant finds himself reflected. He sees himself as he was before he was born, perhaps; or as the man he would have become, had he actually been born in this place" (197). - answer"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter From the South" by James Baldwin -Baldwin's father moved to New York during the Great Migration -Intergenerational trauma / intergenerational nostalgia for imagined collective homeland "My mind was filled with the image of a black man, younger than I, perhaps, or my own age, hanging from a tree, while white men watched him and cut his sex from him with a knife" (198) - answer"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter From the South" by James Baldwin -Sexual-political climate // interconnection between race and sex -Lynching, sexual violence, and castration "It was on the outskirts of Atlanta that I first fe