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The Theme Of Racial Inequality By Judith Ortiz Cofer

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Racial Inequality, an overwhelmly common theme found in the writings of American authors throughout the last 200 years. It can come in many shapes and sizes, some subtle, some direct, some physical and others spiritual. Two pieces studied this semester that had racial inequality as one of their main themes. The first is the prose piece by Judith Ortiz Cofer, “American History.” This short story highlights the conditions that immigrants in the United States during the 60’s lived in. Many poor immigrant families live together in an ugly and run-down apartment called El Building. At the crux of the story, the protagonist Elena, a poor second-generation Puerto-Rican immigrant, walks to the home of her classmate to work on a project. The White mother
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