The 20th century was dominated by World War I, World War II, nationalism, decolonization, the cold war, post-cold war. Although this century has witnessed many wars and invasions but it also witnessed developments on so many levels, in transportation, communications, technology, world population. One of the major issues in the 20th century that this research will examine is racism and ethnic relationships. IT is commonly assumed that racism is as old as human society itself. Since the Beginning of creation the argument between human beings goes; they have always hated people of a different nation or religion or skin color. However, racism is just part of human nature. After the American Civil war racism was worse than any other time before,
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Harper Lee, the author of the novel, has witnessed a time in which the conflict between the blacks and the whites was at its peak. Although the blacks at this time finally had gained their freedom and liberated from slavery; but somehow they were still aggrieved. People classify themselves and others by social or physical features; Karl Marx has proved through his theories that racism is not a biological category. He has proved that the whites benefit of inequality, the idea that the white people are not better than the Blacks because of their skin color or even by Social position but it is based on the economic view. He has proved that the Whites benefit from this discrimination by gaining more money and getting higher wages, he says that racism is devastating since it keeps them divided into two groups by this the more racist world the more better life for white man. Since decades the discourse of power has been between the hands of the white man, they enslaved the Blacks. The Black man stops being an actual person for only the white man. Lance Selfa in the International Socialist Review discusses that “Racism is a particular form of oppression. It stems from discrimination against a group of people based on the idea that some inherited characteristic, such as skin color, makes them inferior to their oppressors. Yet the concepts of “race” and “racism” …show more content…
Lee described the Town of Maycomb as an old suffering town, the Great depression was still ranging beside this the Black people were fighting to live and survive so the racial conflict was most tense. The White and the Black were still separated not only by the boundaries but also by the economic and social situation in the town. Although the racial struggle between the black and white ended, but the whole idea of racism will never end, there is always other racial conflicts for example the conflict between man and woman. “The Black, the Jew, and the woman, she concluded, were objectified as the other in ways that were both overtly despotic and insidious, but with the same result: their particularity as human beings was reduced to a lazy, abstract cliché (‘the eternal feminine; the Jewish character’) that served as a rationale for their subjugation.”( Simone de Bouvoir, 7) . Notably, To Kill a Mocking Bird is a novel that addresses anger against racism, Lee exhibits the racial relations in the Southern America. The story events resolve after placing the first Jim Crow law; the law passed in many states; especially the South. The law came to restrict and limit the rights and liberties of the
Harper Lee, the author of the novel, has witnessed a time in which the conflict between the blacks and the whites was at its peak. Although the blacks at this time finally had gained their freedom and liberated from slavery; but somehow they were still aggrieved. People classify themselves and others by social or physical features; Karl Marx has proved through his theories that racism is not a biological category. He has proved that the whites benefit of inequality, the idea that the white people are not better than the Blacks because of their skin color or even by Social position but it is based on the economic view. He has proved that the Whites benefit from this discrimination by gaining more money and getting higher wages, he says that racism is devastating since it keeps them divided into two groups by this the more racist world the more better life for white man. Since decades the discourse of power has been between the hands of the white man, they enslaved the Blacks. The Black man stops being an actual person for only the white man. Lance Selfa in the International Socialist Review discusses that “Racism is a particular form of oppression. It stems from discrimination against a group of people based on the idea that some inherited characteristic, such as skin color, makes them inferior to their oppressors. Yet the concepts of “race” and “racism” …show more content…
Lee described the Town of Maycomb as an old suffering town, the Great depression was still ranging beside this the Black people were fighting to live and survive so the racial conflict was most tense. The White and the Black were still separated not only by the boundaries but also by the economic and social situation in the town. Although the racial struggle between the black and white ended, but the whole idea of racism will never end, there is always other racial conflicts for example the conflict between man and woman. “The Black, the Jew, and the woman, she concluded, were objectified as the other in ways that were both overtly despotic and insidious, but with the same result: their particularity as human beings was reduced to a lazy, abstract cliché (‘the eternal feminine; the Jewish character’) that served as a rationale for their subjugation.”( Simone de Bouvoir, 7) . Notably, To Kill a Mocking Bird is a novel that addresses anger against racism, Lee exhibits the racial relations in the Southern America. The story events resolve after placing the first Jim Crow law; the law passed in many states; especially the South. The law came to restrict and limit the rights and liberties of the