Theme Of Racism In Rosewood And Snow Falling On Cedars

Racism has been in our society ever since white people were introduced to people who do not look like them, who do not have the same complexion or the same facial structure, and it is still alive today. Racism is one of the most important social issues of our modern world. It has affected millions of people worldwide, and will never be forgotten in our history. “How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a world. And, yes being a problem is a strange experience, - peculiar even for one who has never been anything else” (Dubios, 363). Socially, in both Snow Falling on Cedars and Rosewood, the white people see those who are a different race as a problem. In the movie Rosewood, Fanny Taylor accuses a black man of assaulting her, when in reality she was abused by her lover and did not want her husband to find out. When Fanny told the sherif, he believed her, even though there was no proof that it was a black man that assaulted her. Just because of the word of one white women, there was a massacre of black men, women, and children. The white community in Rosewood believed that the black community was the problem, …show more content…
“Race, we will see, has been a social construction that has historically set apart racial minorities from European immigrant groups” (Takaki, 71). This quote is a great example of how being a different race separates you from being equal to being equal to white people. In Rosewood, when the white men found out that Jon Wright sold ammo to the black community, they were shocked because, even though it is their 2nd Amendment Right, they believed that the black community did not have the right to own guns. In Snow Falling On Cedars, Mrs. Heine ignored the deal that her husband made with the Miyamoto’s, because she believed that Japanese people did not have the right to own