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All the niggers are living in Detroit now putting cars together,"
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he said, making conversation. "I was up there a while
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myself and seen. I come home."
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She's invoking, in a very casual way,
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the southern racism of the poorer white working class.
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This is just part of her representation of the place,
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part of her representation of these characters.
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It's a kind of realism, of course.
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Nevertheless, there it is in front of us,
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and again I call you back to that quotation.
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What are we going to see when we look at the fiction?
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Do we see what's in front of us?