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we see in the cocker spaniel metaphor in the child's imagination,
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and he shows Coleman how to apply that to living race in America,
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living his race in America.
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You are Silky Silk.
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You're not a race.
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You're a proper name, the irreducible singularity of a
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person.
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There is a third way of thinking about race, and that, of
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course, is as biology.
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That, too, is present in this novel.
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The body is relentlessly present, and I hope that you picked up on
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that.