In Nafissa Thompson-Spires's story “Fatima, the Biloquist: A Transformation Story” a teenage Black girl questions her identity and sense of self while attending a predominantly white school. She struggles to feel black enough and befriends Violet, a black teenager with albinism. Violet provides Fatima with guidance—teaching her different connotations and phrases with secondary Black-inflected meanings.
In one example, Fatima considers the racial implications associated with her brown top lip and pink lower one. At school around white people, “she talked with her pink lip, and with Violet, she talked with her brown one” (75). Fatima’s observations about navigating different environments as a Black girl persist throughout the story.
Identify what you thought of as an important scene from the story about the challenges awaiting a Black girl who “felt ready to become black, full black,” which is to say, a Black girl who embraces aspects of African American culture in more deliberate ways.
Then, answer this question: how did the scene you identified confirm or alter your views concerning what a Black girl might face? Please provide the page number for the scene you identify.
Katika hadithi ya Nafissa Thompson-Spires <unk>Fatima, Biloquist: Hadithi ya Mabadiliko<unk> msichana mweusi wa ujana anauliza utambulisho wake na hisia ya kibinafsi wakati wa kuhudhuria shule ya wazungu. Yeye anapambana kujisikia nyeusi kutosha na marafiki Violet, kijana mweusi na albinism. Violet hutoa Fatima na mwongozo - kufundisha yake tofauti connotations na misemo na sekondari Black-inflected maana. Katika mfano mmoja, Fatima anafikiria athari za kikabila zinazohusiana na mdomo wake wa juu wa kahawia na mdomo wake wa chini wa waridi. Shuleni karibu na watu weupe, <unk>alizungumza na mdomo wake wa waridi, na na Violet, alizungumza na mdomo wake wa kahawia<unk> (75). Maoni ya Fatima kuhusu kusafiri katika mazingira tofauti kama msichana mweusi huendelea katika hadithi nzima. "Kumbuka kile ulichokiona kama eneo muhimu kutoka kwa hadithi kuhusu changamoto zilizomngojea msichana mweusi ambaye ""alijisikia tayari kuwa mweusi, mweusi kamili,"" ambayo ni kusema, msichana mweusi ambaye anashikilia mambo ya utamaduni wa Kiafrika wa Amerika kwa njia za makusudi zaidi." "Kisha jibu swali hili: ""Je, eneo uliloliona lilithibitisha au kubadilisha maoni yako kuhusu kile msichana mweusi angeweza kukabili?""" Tafadhali toa nambari ya ukurasa wa eneo unalojua.