Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody analysis

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Topic:Describe the most important elements of cultural knowledge that Anne Moody learned from her family and community as a child.Select two of these elements and analyze how her cultural knowledge of that element was sustained, altered, or transformed by her experiences in college and the Movement. This is interpretive research and while there are answers that are clearly wrong, there is no one “right” answer.Your interpretation/argument should be supported with examples and from the book.You may incorporate other materials, but it is not required.All examples and quotations must be properly cited and a complete bibliography attached.

Analysis.To address this question adequately, you will need to spend some time on analysis and organization before you begin to write.Use the culture model handout(attached, check it out) to help you organize the analysis.Start with the cultural knowledge (labels, rules, roles, practices, scripts, narratives, etc.) that Anne was taught.What institutions were involved in teaching this cultural knowledge?How were these institutions located in terms of power relations (dominance/subordination)?What experiences did she have that reinforced and/or challenged her cultural knowledge?How does she interpret these experiences throughout the book?When you have notes on all these aspects of the model, work on organizing your analysis into an essay.

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Coming of Age in Mississippi – Anne Moody
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The most important elements of cultural knowledge that Anne Moody Learned
Introduction
Anne Moody in her widely acclaimed book ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ vividly
narrates the story of her life. Anne was born in the United States of America at a time when
discrimination was the order of the day. African-Americans and other people of color were
considered as less humans as the society denied them various fundamental freedoms that the
white population enjoyed. Anne being a black American of African roots acknowledged this
reality at a young age as she experienced racism on numerous occasions. Even though AfricanAmericans were no longer slaves and considered themselves free, they were not actually free.
The black population in the United States of America had no economic freedom as they
languished in poverty. The black population still lived in the shanties that they used to and
worked at the white plantations for meager wages. The wages were not even enough to sustain
the workers let alone their families (Moody, 1976). As a result, this academic paper specifically
highlights the cultural knowledge of racism and poverty's oppression that Anne learned from her
community and family and child and how these elements were sustained, altered, or transformed
by her experiences in college and the Movement.
Racism and Discrimination
Primarily, racism is the overarching theme in Anne Moody’s ‘Coming of Age in
Mississippi,' and as a result of the prevalent racism, the Movement emerges to struggle for social
change in the country especially the South. Racism reveals its ugly head in Anne's life at a
relatively young age. As Anne grows up, she soon realizes that arbitral segregation,
discrimination and racism id the order of the day no matter the absurdities of these distinctions.

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Therefore, many whites in Mississippi believed and publicly argued that the white race was
superior to the black race (Moody, 1976). Consequentially, a black person could not be placed at
an equal footing with a white man for the mere reason of the different skin pigmentation. For
example, Anne vividly narrates how as a child she makes her white friends strip naked to
examine their genitals to ascertain the source of their better luck in life. At such a young age, the
societal beliefs play a huge role in shaping Anne’s perception of white people who she does not
understand why they are deemed the superior ones in the society. To satisfy her curiosity, she
decides to examine the private parts of her white female friends to see if there is any difference
as that is the only place that she had not seen in white people.
Further, Anne is exposed to the then elusive subject of race when she moves in with her
aunt. She discovers that two of her uncles have certain physical at...


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