The Street

The Street

1946 • 436 pages

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Average rating4.4

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3.5 I resented having to read through the chapters that presumably were to humanise the superintendent. We learn that he's never had the capacity to socialise with other men, has lived in cellars too long, but at the same time he has absorbed the misogyny of our culture just fine. Although there is less of a perceptive voice about male entitlement and gendered violence, The Street is importantly incisive and angry about the economic genocide of anti-Blackness.

April 17, 2019