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On Paul Beatty's White Boy Shuffle

This Pass or Prepared? is based on Paul Beatty'sWhite Boy Shuffle. We suggest that for this exercise you read the following materials online: Reading Along with jeanne and Vocabulary as Status: The Red Badge of Courage
With Examples Drawn from Beatty's White Boy Shuffle

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  1. What do you think Gunnar means on p.34 when he refers to "trying our hardest not to stay inside the lines?"

  2. Who is the "scruffy Bukowski barfly sitting in the lotus position along the bike trails"? What period in U.S. History does this take us back to?

  3. How would a sociologist explain the difficulty Gunnar has with looking people in the eye in Hillside?