Racism In Huckleberry Finn

Through multiple time periods racism has proved to demote multiple races through multiple novels, the authors depict their time periods and their ideas of how it impacts the people around them. During different time periods there have been multiple different terms used to show the multiple different racial slurs within literature, as Huckleberry Finn uses a severely racist and downgrading term through the novel to degrade black people over 200 times. Later the authors of literature use the term ‘people of color’ when referring to the blacks when the whites decided to treat blacks more as people and give them everything the whites had but they weren’t allowed to share anything. The authors show multiple forms of racism to prove different levels …show more content…
Racism : A Very Short Introduction shows an attempt to bring a more full explanation of how the whites view black humans to present a more subtlety understanding of the position the whites and blacks are in today. Rattansi proves that even during modern times the separation between blacks and whites is still evident even though they’re beginning to become more apart of the community when it comes to having more stable jobs as well as forming a way into the United States government, and have expanded so much to even become the highest level of the government as the president. The statistics that people have made between the blacks and the whites is another form of separation that have many people believing that the African-Americans have a social standard to leave their families and be over-all bad people within the society. Rattansi uses a quote from David Hume’s On National Characters (1754), which states, “I am apt to suspect the Negros and all species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites.” (Rattansi, 173) The racism shows that the honest belief that white people truly believed that blacks were inferior to the superior race. People believed that there were a certain amount of races and how they were inferior to the white; they needed to bow down to the men that …show more content…
Twain showed the character development with Huck beginning to see Jim more as a person rather than an object, showing the little amount of change within the 1830s, racism shows the struggle of a white boy being raised to become racist and the maturity Jim had to have to be patient with the young boy. The time period of which the novel was written shows the struggles Jim had to endure while trying to escape the prison of the whites trying to suppress him as a human being and Twain shows within his writing the struggle of human life during this time of racist