Melanin is shocked and upset when his mother reveals that she is in love with a white woman. That kind made me want to puke every time I thought about it-which wasn't a lot" (Woodson, pg. That kind actually wanted to be with other guys the way I get to feeling when Angie comes around. "The other kind of 'faggy' was the really messed-up kind. From the opening chapters, it's apparent that Melanin is not open to homosexuality. From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun presents a brutally honest story of an African-American male teenager coming to terms with his mother's homosexuality. In chapter 3 of Young Adult Literature in the Classroom: Reading It, Teaching It, Loving It, the claim is made that ".literature also helps free us from the stereotypes that we have about those whose backgrounds are different from our own" (Samuels, pg.
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