The narrator further describes her roommate while recollecting an "important " statement from her absent, dancing" mother, "one of the things she said was that they never washed their hair and they smelled funny. ... "Rather than delving into the distinctive culture of African Americans, she illustrates how the difference between the races in American culture at large is dependent on blacks and whites defining themselves in opposition to one another"" (Li-li 812). ...

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