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Cooper also daringly writes her body onto the pages of her own book.

In one incident, she searched for a lady's room at a train station.

When she found the bathroom, one door was marked for ladies and the other for colored people.

Oh!

This created a moment of cognitive and experiential dissonance for Cooper who was left wondering

under which head I come.

Elizabeth Alexander reads this as a moment of textual resistance for Cooper who was faced with the choice

that will necessarily erase some crucial part of her identity.

The options presented to her render her a literally impossible body in their time and space.

In this moment, Cooper reminds her readers that she lives and moves within a physical body

with sensations and needs, the discursive technologies of race that operate in the signs for ladies and for colored.

Inherently constituted discursive and textual acts of micro recognition for Black women.

The only way to achieve any recognition is to insert a body into the text that challenges the identity signified in the labels.

The insertion of her body also demonstrates the ways in which public space was designed not only to render Black bodies as inferior but Black female bodies as unrecognizable.

When Black women's bodies had been inherently publicly noble under the conditions of slavery after freedom and the conferral of citizenship, Black women did not fully fit into the categories propagated under Jim Crow.

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