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Review: Coming Of Age In Mississippi By Anne Moody

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Dianna Rivera
HIST 1302
November 18, 2015
Coming of Age in Mississippi Essay Written by Anne Moody, “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” is an autobiography of her life in the time of civil rights movement. In this book, nineteen years of her life, are detailed in this book, specifically, when she was four to twenty-three years old. While she was raised to believe that blacks are inferior, she always had the potential to make changes, especially when she was in college.
Even though blacks are being oppressed equally, they are racist in their own race; lighter-skinned blacks believe they are superior to darker skinned blacks. For example, Moody was being oppressed by lighter skin blacks, which she referred to as “mulatto” or “yellow,” which in

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