Private Domain (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Alan Mcpherson
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Rodney, Lynn, Willie, Charlie Pratt
- Genres: Short fiction, Satire
- Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Values, Sex or sexuality, Middle classes, Prejudices or antipathies, Satire
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
This is an ironic story, with a somewhat bitter bite, about a young black man named Rodney who, because of his middle-class background and education, has so thoroughly accepted the white man's values that he must make a self-conscious effort to learn the ways of the streetwise black in order to be “in” with his “hip” and self-consciously liberal white friends.
The story begins with Rodney buying drinks for a down-and-out black man named Willie in return for being “educated” in the slang and musical knowledge of the urban “cat.” Willie instructs...
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