David L. Smith, contributor to the Mark Twain Journal Center for Mark Twain Studies, argues that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, constantly attacked and censored for racism, in fact known for its anti-racist stance. Those who view it as a racist novel often do not consider the “specific form of racial discourse to which the novel responds.” Twain attacks the irony and hypocrisy of the racism through satire on the Southern morals of his time. Readers unfortunately completely misunderstand his subtle attacks on racism and deem him as a racist. Twain uses Jim, viewed as an unintelligent gullible slave, to subtly attack racism by displaying him as a real man with feelings and revealing his humanity. Smith even suggests that Twain portrays Jim
