Assignment task:
When Pink Ballet Slippers Won't Do by Jenine Holmes.
Holmes begins her essay in the personal, writing, as she says, "as an African-American mother of a brown-skinned seven-year-old girl," and brings in interviews and historical facts over the course of her essay. She ends with a scene focusing on an individual, but not herself.
Why do you think she does this? What is the effect on you as a reader?