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Summary Of Sister Anne's Hands

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Sister Anne’s Hands is a book about dealing with racism within the classroom. Sister Anne, an African American teacher, sent to teach in an all-white school encountered problems of racism from the students. This is students’ first time having a person of color for a teacher. Anna responded with resistance following a statement by parents the night before “not knowing how a woman of color would survive”. Wondering about the statement, she dreamed of teachers being colorful as birds. This Portrayal is evident Anna did not see color as something bad; however after seeing Sister Anne, I am sure parents statement influenced her response. The other students in the class displayed acts of hatred by sailing an airplane note across the class containing
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