{"id":481,"date":"2017-04-17T00:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T04:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=481"},"modified":"2017-04-17T00:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T04:09:05","slug":"bringing-segregation-to-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/paul-beatty\/bringing-segregation-to-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Segregation to Dickens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Charisma and the narrator are talking at the school, she comments on how, ever since the sign &#8220;priority seating for whites&#8221; has been displayed on Marpessa&#8217;s bus, the bus has been safe and the people have been exceptionally friendly. When they see the sign, &#8220;people grouse at first, but the racism takes them back. Makes them humble&#8221; (163). The narrator then gets the notion in his head that in order to bring back Dickens, they need segregation. When reading this, I was confused on the idea. Why would segregation make the bus a safer place? I know Charisma noted that it makes people humble, but what about it makes people humble? Isn&#8217;t it segregation that made people rise up and fight for their rights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Charisma and the narrator are talking at the school, she comments on how, ever since the sign &#8220;priority seating for whites&#8221; has been displayed on Marpessa&#8217;s bus, the bus has been safe and the people have been exceptionally friendly. When they see the sign, &#8220;people grouse at first, but the racism takes them back. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul-beatty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}