In the 1930s-1940s racism is still present in America. African American were still being discriminated, and racial segregation is still legal.Whites had better jobs and better living conditions than blacks the dehumanization of african americans during slavery had been followed in the long aftermath of the civil war by their often brutal repression in the south and by conditions of life in many respects equally severe in the nominslly intergrated north. among blacks the centuries of abuse and exploitation had created ways of life marked by patterns of duplicity, including self-deception as well as something far more forbidding and lethal.slavery and neo slavery prominent the south were marked by harrassment by whites and by his own disdain
