One of Cable’s aims in The Grandissimes is to make white Americans comfortable with the idea of racial equality. Unfortunately, his project causes him to distort the historical record (downp

One of Cable’s aims in The Grandissimes is to make white Americans comfortable with the idea of racial equality. Unfortunately, his project causes him to distort the historical record (downplaying history of Black resistance, for example) and to rely on representational strategies that play to white Americans’ prejudices about people of African descent. Identify ways in which Cable infantilizes his Black characters, or imbues them with qualities that remain fundamental to stereotypical portrayals of our own time, as he tries to make white people feel good (less fearful) about Black liberation. Conclude with an explanation of how the final scene, in which Bras-Coupe’ seems to forgive his white oppressors, enacts a white fantasy of eternal Black forgiveness. (Be sure to factor in the role of the master’s baby in that scene).