Twyla And Roberta In Recitatif By Toni Morrison

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In Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" the two main characters, Twyla, the narrator, is a black female, and Roberta is a white female. Suprisongly, their true idenith/ ethnicy was not introduced until the end of the story where a protest was occuring. A group of women outside of a school where protesting with the exchange of shaking Twyla's car. Considering that specifict time period, where blacks were not recieving the same wrights and privelges as whites, individual can infer that the protest is dealing with the integration of schools. It makes sense that the protesters were white females because that would not want thier child in the same edacational enviroment as black children. In addition, if Twyla was white I highly doubt if the white protesters