The middle story in this mini-collection is “The Body’s Defenses Against Itself”, in which the adult Fatima considers how different aspects of her past have affected her present. The third in this trio of stories, “Fatima, the Biloquist” considers another of Fatima’s school-age experiences: the development of her friendship with Violet, who is both black and albino. The conversation takes place entirely in letters. In the first of these three stories, “Belles Lettres”, Fatima does not actually appear, but is the focus of an increasingly angry conversation between her mother and the mother of one of Fatima’s classmates, the only other black student in their upper-middle class school. The third, fourth, and fifth stories in the collection have a single character in common: Fatima, a young black woman who struggles with body image issues. The second story in the collection focuses on Randolph, a young black academic who gets into conflict with the young, female, Latin academic with whom he shares his office. The two get into a confrontation, and are shot by police. One enjoys dressing in costumes that resemble those of his favorite anime characters the other is an artist. The first gives the collection its title, and relates to the previously referenced source of the author’s inspiration for the collection: “Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apology.” The story considers the young life and violent death of a pair of black men. Most of the stories, however, are entirely self-contained. There are 12 stories in the collection, some of which have characters in common. Simon and Schuster, 2018.Īs the author comments in her post-collection note, the form and content of the stories are based on, and inspired by, short writings by black authors in the 1900’s, writings that considered the various possibilities for the future of black people in America. In fact, Bisheh is a big fan of this type of photography.The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Thompson-Spires, Nafissa. There is no orphanage involved and no tragic story behind this. I used a chair to stand on in order to take this shot. She must have played for some time and just lied to rest and fell asleep. This little girl is my cousin and she actually fell asleep on the asphalt just outside my house. When the image started circulating online attached to a sad story about an orphan missing her mother, Bisheh chimed in on his Flickr page to tell the true story behind the picture: The photograph displayed above was taken by Iranian photographer Bahareh Bisheh and was originally uploaded to his Flickr account in 2012 without any background explanation.
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I really don't know how to use human language to interpret such a picture.Īlthough the photograph is real, the backstory that typically accompanies it is not. She carefully took off the shoes, lay down on mother's chest and fell asleep. In Iraq, a little girl drew a picture of her mother on the floor of her orphanage. A photograph showing a little girl sleeping within the lines of a chalk drawing of a woman is frequently passed around social media along with the claim that the pictured child is an Iraqi orphan and that chalk drawing is a depiction of her absent mother:
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