369, which prohibited serving “white
and colored people” in the same room
unless they were separated by a partition
seven feet high with separate entrances.
2 My mother, who is West Indian,
was taught Anansi stories as a child and
told them to my brothers and me when
we were young. Anansi is a rascal, who
is not above cheating and sacrificing his
own children (of which he invariably
has many) for his own ends. My mother
is a proper Jamaican lady, but on the
subject of Anansi she becomes the
picture of mischief.
3 In Black Culture and Black
Consciousness: Afro-American Folk
Thought from Slavery to Freedom,
Lawrence Levine writes: “The rabbit,
darren dugan
(Darren Dugan)
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