6/1/2023 0 Comments Zami a new spelling of my name![]() ![]() ![]() Lorde made friends as she got older and was even elected school magazine editor at her high school. ![]() Yet despite this blatant and ever-present racism, Lorde witnessed very little of it because her mother was determined to hide it from her daughters, whom she wanted to grow up feeling that they had the power to do anything they chose. ![]() A family trip to Washington was curtailed when they discovered that due to the Jim Crow laws they were not permitted to eat ice cream at a lunch counter. The family's landlord was so ashamed that he rented his property to a Black family that he committed suicide. Lorde did not begin speaking until she was four years old, when she announced that she wanted to learn to read.įrom the beginning of the book we see the shadow of racism over Lorde’s world. Lorde was very strictly disciplined both at home and in the Catholic schools she attended. Lorde had two older sisters, who were very close to each other, but with whom she spent little time. They were rather cold towards her, rarely loving and demonstrative. The child of Black West Indian parents, she had a difficult start in life legally blind from infancy, she was isolated from her surroundings and from family members who did not know how to connect with her and never really tried to extend themselves to find out. Audre Lorde grew up in Harlem and Washington Heights in the 1930s and 1940s. ![]()
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