Unnamed Negroes in the North
Character Key Number:
2163
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Unnamed Negroes in the North
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Unnamed Negroes in the North
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Part of the time Christmas is on "the street which was to run for fifteen years" in Light in August he spends in Chicago and Detroit, living and eating "with negroes" (225) as a Negro himself. He fights with any of the black men "who call him white" (225).