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Alborosie
3 years ago
6

Who are “the bosses of the buildings?”

History
1 answer:
JulijaS [17]3 years ago
3 0

The correct answer is:

The landlords.

In the account of the harsh existence that he and his family encountered in the one-room tenements of South Chicago, Richard Wright's "The One-Room Kitchenette" refers to the building landlords as “the bosses of the buildings”, who were keeping black people in specific apartments, without any mobility, and developing racially restrictive housing covenants.

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