Segregation In Jacqueline Woodson's The Other Side

“An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.”- Jonathan Kozol. The author of the script “Eye of the Beholder”, Rod Serling, puts his point out there about how segregation is going on all around us and it will never stop. The audience he is trying to portray his message to is everyone. He wants to make them aware of the segregation that is still going on today. Through the use of diction and experience, the author uses pathos, logos, and ethos to show that segregation still goes on today and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

First and foremost, the children in the novel are presented as more perceptive and more honest than adults. Children in general tend to be portrayed as innocent in literature. Unlike adults, they don’t really know why things seem to be the way they are and don’t know from right or wrong. In this case, the author might have included these children to act like “judges” in the book. He could have also wanted to bring out some aspects of the novel using the kids.

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee segregation plays a huge role throughout the story. The Jim Crow Law also lay along these lines too. The Jim Crow Laws were laws that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. In Harper Lee’s book black and white people are often separated.

When readers read a story written by an author they will usually think that the author likes to read books and is what led the author to writing a book. William Goldman said, “As a child, I had no Interest in reading” (Goldman 3), this can lead readers to imagining the author as a young child rather than an adult not wanting to read a book. When Readers imagine the author as a young child the image imagined can give a better sense of how the author felt as a young child. The imagination of a child giving the reader a picture to think about is less complex than that of a adult giving a reader a picture to think about.

On the other end of the spectrum, the black end, is the story of Shirlee’s father and his family history. This narrative, Haizlip tells with pride; she mentions how she would have very much liked to meet her Native American grandmother from years back and how she too would have loved to have a name like “White Cloud.” In this narrative there is no shame, no abandonment, and no sadness. This is a story of a family and it’s success despite their skin color and the changing times around them. Her father, as his father before him, had inspired her with confidence and pride in the way she was, dark or light, and from this end of the spectrum she learned to love the dark pigment in her skin. Haizlip tells various stories of black communities in which her father grew up and how her grandfather was respected by his fellow citizen. This is a completely different story than that of her mother. Instead of running away from their darkness, her father’s family reached for it, yearned

In the beginning chapters of the book, we get a glimpse of the typical home and community of an African American during segregation. Many Africans Americans were too adjusted to the way of living, that they felt

Just fifty years ago, America was a society of segregation and racism. The dictionary defines racism as “the belief that a particular race is superior to another.” Although it is clear times have changed, racism is still seen in modern american society. It’s also clear that relationships between African Americans and whites are generally better than they were in the forties and fifties. Today, it is rare to witness a black man walk down the street and step off the sidewalk to let a white man walk by, or to see a black man sitting on a different section of the bus or train because a white man told him he has too. But superiority of races is still happening. A lot of this has the do with the ignorance of others. Passed down generation to

On the other hand, parents fear that reading this novel will give their children ideas to rebel against them, and consequently cause them to lose control of them. Ultimately, it is the counter-culture attitude and the distaste for any kind of authority that governs the novel that leads many to shy away from exposing the material to teenagers.

In the famous “I Have a Dream” Speech, Civil Rights Fighter Martin Luther King Jr says, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; we hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King always believed that everyone was equal no matter what and people should accept each other's differences, that rather looking at them as a threat. Furthermore, Discrimination is defined as distinguishing differences between things or treating someone as inferior based on their race, sex, national origin, age or other characteristics. However, Discrimination still exist in society. In addition, the novel The Outsiders, by SE Hinton, provides readers how discrimination occurs a lot between gangs with

When you look at field of dandelions, you can either see a hundred weeds, or a thousand wishes… It's known as perspective in which, I have learned that two people can look at the exact say thing and see something totally different. In Fences and “Say yes”, both authors reveal that different perspectives about race create conflict with those that you love.

Protest against injustice is deeply rooted in the African American experience. The origins of the civil rights movement date much further back than the 1954 Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka which said, "separate but equal" schools violated the Constitution. From the earliest slave revolts in this country over 400 years ago, African Americans strove to gain full participation in every aspect of political, economic and social life in the United States.

“It’s the same God, ain’t it?” (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird) A powerful quote by Calpurnia brought into light during Scout’s visit to the First Purchase. The quote had been evoked as a response to how some African-Americans had not been fond of the non-coloured individuals entering their church. Inevitably showcasing that some African-Americans held a preconceived grudge and an ingrained bias towards the white community as well. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Harper Lee introduces a different aspect of racism. When the children go to visit the ‘Negro’ church they become aware of what it had been like to stand in a black person's shoes in Maycomb, Alabama (1900’s). Scout is able to explicitly recognize the abhorrent partition of humanity

she become so used to not fighting back or even crying. Celie was always a

Humanity is composed of individuals with different origins, beliefs, and characteristics, aspects that have significantly promoted separation in the society. Racial segregation entails the division based on race or ethnicity, an aspect that results in discrimination. In the United States, the separation is experienced in various areas such as public transport, schools, restaurants, and residential places where individuals may be restricted basing on their racial background. Lawrence Otis Graham in his short story ‘The Black Table is Still There’ narrates his experiences in junior high school and relates it to his observation fourteen years later during his visit to the school. In the essay, it is apparent that Graham discloses the societal superficiality integration. This essay provides a concise analysis of Graham’s short story, a real example of racial segregation in the society. Further, the paper explains two other different symbols of racial segregation and their effects on the society or a group of people.