Question

3. Critically analyse how the intersections of race, class, gender affect the dynamics between the young
man and the American girl in 'Blackout'.
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Answer 1

Explanation:

The story 'Blackout' is written by Roger Mais. Here the main theme is regarding racism and the difference of two different races, the black and white people.

In the story, there was a woman standing on bus stop and a black man approached her asking a match to light his cigarette. Since she didn’t have matches so she offered her cigarette and then threw it afterwards showing her racism thought that a black man toucher her cigarette