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Studies - Éva Miklódy: Redefining the "Other ": Race, Gender, Class, and Violence in Gloria Nay lor's Bailey's Café

there is a scene which very well represents that each human being is a potential victim of violence beyond the boundaries of race, gender, and class. It is George's naming ceremony, when all of the Café's hopeless pilgrims join in a gospel song of hope: Anybody asks you who you are? Who you are? Who you are? Anybody asks you who you are? Tell him

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