Summary

In Chapter 20, set in Princeton in 1982, Katherine was surprised when she learned that Livenworth was Black. Kate argued in favor of the White farmers in many of her debates and papers. She noted they had been in a tight spot after slavery was ended and believed they were justified in behaving the way they did toward Blacks. Katherine was surprised when she received a “D” on a paper she had written from the point of view of a Black sharecropper, a role she had been assigned.

Katherine went to her professor to plead for herself, but he said that she could not redo the paper. She received that grade because she had written the majority of the paper from the point of view of the landowner, which was not her assignment. Katherine talked to Livenworth about her background with her father and...