{"id":506,"date":"2017-04-19T11:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=506"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:57:40","slug":"segregation-discussion-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/paul-beatty\/segregation-discussion-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"Segregation Discussion Cont."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something our discussion in class made me think about is physical segregation, notably the white line that the narrator paints around &#8220;Dickens.&#8221; One thing I wanted to point out in particular was Marpessa&#8217;s reaction to the white line when she crossed it. She says, &#8221; &#8220;soon as we crossed that white line you painted, it was like, you know, when you enter a banging-ass house party and shit&#8217;s bumping, and you get that thump in your chest and you be like, if I were to dies right now, I wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>give a fuck.<\/em> It was like that. Crossing the threshold (203).&#8221; This form of segregation is imaginative (the line doesn&#8217;t really mean anything), symbolic (the community gives it meaning- denotes Dickens), and physical. In particular, I find it interesting how when we associate meaning to something it takes on a whole other dimension. In reality it is just a white line but for Marpessa and the Dickens community, it becomes so significant and real to them. By crossing that barrier, Marpessa felt a kind of rush, a high. There&#8217;s power in what we give power to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something our discussion in class made me think about is physical segregation, notably the white line that the narrator paints around &#8220;Dickens.&#8221; One thing I wanted to point out in particular was Marpessa&#8217;s reaction to the white line when she crossed it. She says, &#8221; &#8220;soon as we crossed that white line you painted, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","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\/506","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\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}