How Long to Read Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts

How Long Does it Take to Read Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts by Roland Leander Williams

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been beaten, but he guarantees that they have not been broken. While he acknowledges that they have been demeaned, he assures that they have not been diminished. Williams confesses that African Americans have been done harm, but he confirms that they have not become disheartened. Close readings of classic slave narratives, along with some neo-slave narratives—including The Conjure Woman (1899), Kindred (1979), Dessa Rose (1986), and The Good Lord Bird (2013)—furnish proof that African Americans have preserved their dignity and elevated their status through ingenious applications of improvisation. Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts establishes as well that a dim view of African Americans, propagated by black bondage, bears a resemblance to sexual discrimination, which prompts female targets of its gaze to practice dissembling.

How long is Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts?

Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts by Roland Leander Williams is 237 pages long, and a total of 60,909 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 32 minutes to read Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts aloud.

What Reading Level is Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts?

Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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