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Langston Hughes Poetry Collection

This is a poetry book the narrator bought in high school. This collection symbolizes the beginning of the narrator's period of self-discovery, as it was this book that enabled her to realize that "America was never America" for her.

Vanderbilt

This is the university that the narrator attended for graduate school. This place symbolizes the narrator's realization that academic is a difficult and traumatizing industry for a woman of color. Though her cohort was liberal and well-meaning, the implicit biases they projected onto her were harmful and damaging.

Nicaragua

This is a country in Central America. This place symbolizes home for the narrator, as it is her place of origin. It also symbolizes generational trauma, as it is the site of a war that many of her family lived through, and where she suffered in poverty in early childhood.

Florida

This is a state...

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