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submitted by: dnacardoza
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... In his essay In the Kitchen, he uses his detailed personal
family experiences to help the reader gain insight into the cultural beliefs and
understandings of how Afro-Americans perceive themselves and their fellow
Afro-Americans. ...
Gates begins the essay speaking of the kitchen in his house. ... This introduction to hair brings about the debut of the
second kitchen. The definition of the second kitchen, as Gates explains, “but the
word has another meaning, and the kitchen that I’m speaking of is the very kinky
bit of hair at the back of your head, where your neck meets your shirt collar,”
page 312, paragraph 5. ... Gates uses
this, “kitchen,” terminology , along with detailed examples, to lead the reader to
feel and see the tribulations of being an Afro-American. ...
Good hair, the common goal for these Afro-Americans, brings the reader
back to the kitchen. This kitchen, no matter how hot the iron, no matter how
powerful the chemical, no matter how stringent the mashed potatoes-and-lye
formula of a man’s “process,” neither God or woman nor Sammy Davis, Jr.
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