How Alice Walker Shaped Derrick Bell’s Counterstory

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Eva Thor

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This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"

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