Com base em uma verificação muito rápida de " As cabras " :
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O personagem de Tiwanda, Lydia e Calvin estão de fato no romance fonte.
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Todos os três caracteres são pretos:
A tall black girl [Lydia] whirled against them, her eyes shining with excitement. She gathered them both under her thin, elegant arms as if she must hold on to something or fall down.
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The black teenager smiled and nodded as if that were the right answer.
“That your chick?” he asked, tipping his head at the girl.
“Yes,” said the boy.
“Nice.”
“Hey, Calvin, you leave them alone,”
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Before the boy could answer, the teenager who had lost his quarter in the machine took the black girl’s elbow and steered her into the seat behind them. “Sit down, Tiwanda,” he said.
- Com base nas descrições dos participantes do acampamento, é impossível julgar qual é a demografia racial geral do acampamento. Dito isto, das "crianças" mencionadas pelo nome, há quatro negros e dois brancos, o que implicaria que é pelo menos relativamente misturado.