 | mark twain - 1897 - 450 páginas
...as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a negro. She was a slave, and salable...father of the white child was able to tell the children apart—little as he had commerce with them— by their clothes: for the white babe wore ruffled soft... | |
 | Helmbrecht Breinig - 1984 - 436 páginas
...intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the onesixteenth of her which was black ... made her a negro. She was a slave, and salable as...slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a negro. ( 1 2) Gesetz und Gewohnheit, die Roxy zur Negerin machen, sind Fiktion. Doch die Wirklichkeit, dh... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1969 - 340 páginas
...which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a negro. She was a slave, and saleable as such. Her child was thirty-one parts white, and...slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a negro.' This fiction of law and custom, which decrees radically different destinies for the two children, makes... | |
 | Peter W. Bardaglio - 1998 - 388 páginas
...as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other f1fteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable...slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a Negro." By lumping mulattoes and blacks into the same category, whites in effect denied the existence of race... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 1997 - 326 páginas
...tricked because he has little familiarity with his own child. Describing Roxy's child,Twain notes: "He had blue eyes and flaxen curls, like his white...father of the white child was able to tell the children apart—little as he had commerce with them—by their clothes: for the white babe wore ruffled soft... | |
 | Cathy Boeckmann - 2000 - 260 páginas
...as white as anybody, but the one-sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a negro. She was a slave, and salable...slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a negro" (8-9). First, the narrator mocks the language of fractions of race by humorously attributing volition... | |
 | Michael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley - 2001 - 264 páginas
...as a fiction. Clemens makes this point explicitly in chapter 2 when he notes regarding Roxy's son, "[H]e, too, was a slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a negro."11 Throughout this work, the fictions of race are exposed and ridiculed as absurd in the face... | |
 | Jonathan Brennan - 2002 - 260 páginas
...as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other f1fteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.2 The white outline f1gure with which the first American edition represented Roxy could not render... | |
 | Carlos Hiraldo - 2003 - 142 páginas
...published many citizens to the lower strata of US society. Of the infant slave, the narrator reveals, "her child was thirty-one parts white and, he, too, was a slave, and by fiction of law and custom a Enslaved Characters 49 Negro" (33). At the twilight of the nineteenth century,... | |
 | Linda A. Morris - 2007 - 197 páginas
...as white as anybody, but the one-sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a negro. She was a slave, and salable as such. (PW, 9) Even as a slave, she exerts her independence by boldly exchanging the babies in their cribs.... | |
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To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a negro. She was a slave, and salable as such. Her child was thirty-one parts white, and he, too, was... 