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Drama City
Author: George Pelecanos
Copyright: 2005
Copyright: 2005
Setting Year: 2000
Setting Decade: 2000s
Main Themes: African-American Life, Education
Excerpt: Lorenzo walked along Park View Elementary, where he had attended grade school. The summer-school kids had just begun to arrive, some holding the hands of their mothers, grandmothers, or aunts. He passed the mural painting of successful black folks, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Carver and the like, that covered an entire wall. They'd had pictures up of folks like them in just about every classroom Lorenzo had ever been in, but the pictures hadn't stopped him or anyone he knew from going down to the corner. Lorenzo realized that people meant well, but still. Submitted by: Tony Ross
Excerpt Page Number: 8
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