International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Through the history, conflicts are always the cause of pain, sorrow and death. Nowadays more are developing for different rationale; colour, religion, race, gender; leaving millions of people to suffer all around the world. Racism has been a hot topic in literature; writers are examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination as a weapon against hatred and anger.


29 April 2012

The Queen of Palmyra
Published in New York: Harper Perennial, 2010
Florence Forrest, a young girl, lives in Millwood Mississippi, spends days at her grandparents’ house and afternoons with their housekeeper Zenie’s (named for Zenobia, the queen of Palmyra) family in “Shake Rag” a black neighbourhood. Florence can’t figure out her mother, Martha, fear of her father, Win, a burial insurance salesman until Zenie’s niece, Eva, comes to town to sell insurance to earn money for college when her father will never be the same.
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