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In The Belly Of A Clothes Rack Analysis

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The most important message in the story called “In the Belly of a Clothes Rack,” is that there is racism and it affects people. Crissy is from a mixed family of dark and white skin colored people, Crissy’s mother is white but her father is dark skin colored. Crissy has been discriminated against because the saleswoman thought that Crissy’s mom would be black like Crissy. The saleswoman never even considered that she might be a mix of both. The passage reads, “Even as I could hear Momma's Cris?Crissy?! I understood what being lost meant. Being lost is to look in the face of a spectacled white woman and wonder what the gnarled ball making it’s way from your stomach to your throat is called” (lines 80-84). Crissy feels discriminated against because
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