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Without fear of censure or admonition, one could write about wops, japs, micks, pollocks, the shanty Irish, frogs, hunkies, hebes, dagos, krauts, spics, and nips and attribute to them the hoariest of stereotypes. Janitors were for jiggs, and Hunkies, and Polacks, anyway" (55). Suffering under a social system which continues to require of African Americans their very lives, and which identifies them always as "other," the people of the Bottom are quite as capable as their white oppressors on the valley floor of invoking racism toward their own "others": "garlic-ridden hunkies, corrupt Catholics, racist Protestants, cowardly Jews," and so on (150). |
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