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School and gender are two focal points in shaping an individuals' character outside of the home. At school, children see other children and how they look and act, oftentimes, for the first time ever. This is the beginning of peer pressure, kids strive to fit in ....

Middle of Essay
.... in with the mainstream of white people. Because of the want to fit in, Jeanne accepted white culture's beliefs in terms of school and gender as the way to model her life because it is made fitting in easier. Jeanne seems to have set up her own type of Jim Crow rules, like those in the South. She always had to be complaisant around White people and apologize or be submissive to them even if they were in the wrong. This was not anything that was enforced by law, like in the South, but it was self-enforced because she thought it would win her more respect and maybe gain her entry into the White world. As a junior high school student, Jeanne asked ....