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    A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Brownies"
    A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Brownies"
    A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Brownies"
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    A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Brownies"

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    A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Brownies," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535820028
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      A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Brownies" - Gale

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      Brownies

      ZZ Packer

      2003

      Introduction

      Brownies is a story by ZZ Packer, a young African American writer. It appears in Packer's short story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, which was published in 2003 to great acclaim. The story is about a Brownie troop of fourth-grade African American girls from suburban Atlanta, Georgia, who go to summer camp. At the camp, they encounter a troop of white girls and believe that one of the white girls addressed them with a racial insult. The African American girls resolve to beat up the white girls.

      Brownies is a story about racism as it is experienced by young girls, but it has a twist. The African American girls discover that the situation is not as clear-cut as they had believed, and as they return home on the bus, Laurel, the African American girl who narrates the story, tells them of an incident in her family involving a white Mennonite family. As she tells the story, she comes to an unsettling realization about racism and the nature of human life.

      Author Biography

      ZZ Packer was born in Chicago in 1973. Her first name is Zuwena, which is a Swahili word meaning good. But she has been known by the nickname ZZ for as long as she can remember, she told Richard Dorment in a March 2003 interview for Interview magazine. When she was five, she and her family moved to Atlanta, where she remained until she was eleven. Then her parents got divorced, and ZZ went to live in Louisville, Kentucky, with her mother. During her early schooling, Packer was interested in math and science, but in high school a teacher had the class write short stories, and that planted a seed in Packer's mind that she might one day become a writer.

      After graduating from high school, Packer attended Yale University. For a while she was unsure of whether to focus on the humanities or the sciences, but she then decided she would become an engineer. At the time she did not think writing

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