Answer:
Fish tank: Durability (glass)
Math Book: durability (wood etc)
Gum: Flexibility (food and sugar)
Explanation:
He believes that middle and upper class black Americans are primarily interested in effacing their history, background and culture and want to copy white people and for example as poets be like white poets and men like doctors.,lawyers etc are often marrying lighter skinned women than themselves.
Answer:
It might means that she might have a name as a curse and she doesn't want people seeing because how embarrassing it is to have a name as a curse