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Racial Identity In Alex Haley's Queen

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Alex Haley's Queen is a autobiographical movie about the famous writer grandmother, Queen. Like many other slaves, Queen was a biracial slave. To be specific, you could not tell Queen was black woman, she took after her white father.

A few Issues from the Movie

Racial Identity
Queen had a issues with racial identity. When leaving her hometown to strike out on her own (after the Civil War), Queen passed a white lady. She would have gotten away with if she would have not told her white fiance a few things about her past.

Abandonment
If you choice to watch the movie, you will see that Queen had an abandonment issues. Her father did the best he could, but he could not saw Queen was his daughter publicly. This scared Queen. She developed a bitter

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