“My childhood is ruined!": Harper Lee and racial innocence
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Abstract
I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Living Legacies: Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement
First Page
145
Last Page
164
Recommended Citation
Henninger, K. (2018). “My childhood is ruined!": Harper Lee and racial innocence. Living Legacies: Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement, 145-164. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315106311
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