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in his experience as a child.
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But that revision is also away from a sense that
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this jeopardy is
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represented by a racial face,
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the symbolic face of black oppression,
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the white face that is always cruelly set
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against the black boy of this account.
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He revises it away from that
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to the more generalized,
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fundamental,
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but also very personal figure of the mother
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and the maternal.