Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the nineteen sixties.

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So what we see in the publishing history of Black Boy and also in its reception brings us back to those questions that I was raising at the beginning of class.

黑孩子》的出版经历,以及出版之后的反响,让我们又回到了我一开始提到的那些问题。

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