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trope about IU colorism
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* ButNotTooBlack: Maya describes her maternal grandmother as being almost white.
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* {{Autobiography}}: Maya Angelou writes of her own childhood experiences and trauma.
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* BigScaryBlackMan: Vivian's brothers.
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* TheCasanova: Bailey Senior.
* ChildrenAreCruel: How the group of poor white trash mock the grandma in chapter seven.
* DeepSouth: Where Maya and Bailey are raised for most of the book.
* ChildrenAreCruel: How the group of poor white trash mock the grandma in chapter seven.
* DeepSouth: Where Maya and Bailey are raised for most of the book.
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* GroinAttack: What Bailey tells Maya to do in a fight. He's silent when she asks him what to do if she's fighting a girl.
* TheHedonist: Both of Maya's parents qualify.
* TheHedonist: Both of Maya's parents qualify.
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* RapeAsBackstory: With Maya. {{Justified}}, because it really did happen.
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* WouldHurtAChild: What Mr. Freeman does to Maya.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: When the children are in Saint Louis, Maya remarks that even though she liked comic books, she found the Kathmejer kids in them too smart alecky.
** Another example is how no one really cares about the Japanese being interned, and Maya has to explain in the story why no one raised a fuss.
** Another example is how no one really cares about the Japanese being interned, and Maya has to explain in the story why no one raised a fuss.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** When the children are in Saint Louis, Maya remarks that even though she liked comic books, she found the Kathmejer kids in them too smart alecky.
**Another example is how no No one really cares about the Japanese being interned, and Maya has to explain in the story why no one raised a fuss.
** When the children are in Saint Louis, Maya remarks that even though she liked comic books, she found the Kathmejer kids in them too smart alecky.
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* DumbStruck: In the aftermath of her rape Maya is rendered mute for six years by her guilt at having told on Mr. Freeman, feeling that it was her speaking that caused his murder.
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A MadeForTVMovie adaptation was made in 1979, starring Diahann Carroll as Vivian, Esther Rolle as Momma, Creator/RubyDee as Grandmother, and Constance Good as Maya.
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A MadeForTVMovie adaptation was made in 1979, starring Diahann Carroll Creator/DiahannCarroll as Vivian, Esther Rolle Creator/EstherRolle as Momma, Creator/RubyDee as Grandmother, and Constance Good as Maya.Maya.
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Maya and her brother, Bailey, are raised by their paternal Grandmother and uncle in Stamps, Arkansas for four years until their father, Bailey Johnson, takes them to live with their mother, Vivian Johnson, briefly in Saint Louis. After Maya is raped by her mother's boyfriend, they return to Stamps before going to San Francisco to spend the rest of the book when Maya is thirteen.
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Maya and her brother, Bailey, are raised by their paternal Grandmother and uncle in Stamps, Arkansas for four years until their father, Bailey Johnson, takes them to live with their mother, Vivian Johnson, briefly in Saint Louis.UsefulNotes/StLouis. After Maya is raped by her mother's boyfriend, they return to Stamps before going to San Francisco to spend the rest of the book when Maya is thirteen.
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A MadeForTVMovie adaptation was made in 1979, starring Diahann Carroll as Vivian, Esther Rolle as Momma, Ruby Dee as Grandmother, and Constance Good as Maya.
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A MadeForTVMovie adaptation was made in 1979, starring Diahann Carroll as Vivian, Esther Rolle as Momma, Ruby Dee Creator/RubyDee as Grandmother, and Constance Good as Maya.
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* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: As the con men Red Leg and Just Black scam a crooked white man out of $40,000, the mark (who thinks he's scamming them) swears that "Some of his best friends were colored people."
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''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' is a 1969 autobiographical book by Maya Angelou, detailing her life from age three to seventeen.
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''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' is a 1969 autobiographical book by Maya Angelou, Creator/MayaAngelou, detailing her life from age three to seventeen.
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--->But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings--\\
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