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Luke (korrick) | 2004 comments The Street, Ann Petry, 1946, United States, NOVEL

"...Separated from her husband, Lutie is doing her best to raise an eight-year-old son, achieve independence from her father, advance in her job, and work her way out of the Harlem streets, which she calls "The North's lynch mobs...the method the big cities use to keep Negroes in their place."...Though her self-knowledge is thorough, it can't stop her from becoming entangled in a tradition of oppression and an upbringing that blames whites for present afflictions..."

(S.L.S., p. 173)

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