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9. Bill Payers on Parade

Summary

Zayd's parents Bernadine Dohrn and Billy Ayers arrive at Brown for Parents Weekend; Dohrn and Ayers were leaders of the Weather Underground in the 1960s and on the FBI's Most Wanted List, but after years as fugitives they re-emerged in mainstream society with their progressive beliefs intact. With them as they walk around campus is Bear and his mother Harriet Beinfeld, a friend dating back to the sixties. Bernadine wishes her son Zayd was more concerned about social issues, and is especially troubled at how he seems to.........

Notes

The encounter between Barbara Jennings and Bernadine Dohrn exposes a difference in the priorities of these two women. Bernadine embodies the progressive rhetoric and beliefs of the 1960s counterculture, but in doing so turns the flesh-and-blood Jennings into symbols of racial understanding and........



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